[Konvas] one inch tape .... transfer ....

[olivier auverlau]

thanks ... it is what i had say to my client ....
maybe Du Art in NY ....


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Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Konvas] one inch tape .... transfer ....


>
> "hi i have a client who have a ONE INCH video program tape (in a roll)
> ....
> and who want a transfer to some other usefull format"
>
>
> Oliver,
>
> As you know the 1 inch open reel format has been dead for some time  now
> and the only people I know who own an Ampex type machine are collectors. I 
> do
> not know any TV post houses who use these machines as all 1 inch tape has
> already been transferred to Beta etc.
>
> I remember the Ampex machines well as we had them at Thames  TV Teddington
> film Studios where the last "Benny Hill" shows were recorded  and that was
> around 1975-77.
>
> Word of warning.  You will find that if the tape has been stored for  many
> years, you will definitely have "print through" where the oxide has picked
> up the images and sound track of the upper layer and printed them onto the
> next  layer and so on and the quality will have been lost.
>
> The National film and Television museum in Bradford UK had these machines
> working for a while so you could contact them. Otherwise contact a 
> collector
> but  it will not be a 'clean' transfer.
>
> Rita
>
>
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