Robert Buncher Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I friend of mine asked if it is possible to recover the programing on an helical video tape from the early 1970"s The tape is a Sony V-32 I see that there are companies that offer this service and was wondering if anyone on JWSound has used any of these services and , if so, how did it go? Is there any company that you would recommend? Thanks, Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 I've been associated with some projects that got old 1/2 EIAJ tape transferred by Bay Area Video Coalition in San Francisco. Wasn't my department but the producers seemed happy. BAVC does (or at least did) lots of great video preservation work. http://bavc.org/preservation/services/history I'm no expert in that field, though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Duffy Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 A friend of mine, Ken Zin, also based in the Bay Area. (PM for email address) http://www.zinvtrworks.com/ Repairs all video tape machines - did the machines used to recover the NASA moon pictures. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/moonmars/features/LOIRP/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted December 23, 2014 Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 A business associate of mine, David Crosthwait, does the best video archival restoration of anybody on the West coast: DC Video 177 West Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, CA 91502 http://www.dcvideo.com/ (818) 563-1073 Email: DCFWTX@aol.com Note that the V32 tapes can either be B&W or color, but they're generally B&W. Getting them to track 45 years later is not easy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Buncher Posted December 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2014 Thanks to Jim, Tom and Marc for their responses. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen Trew Posted December 24, 2014 Report Share Posted December 24, 2014 Last year Pete Verrando on this group offered to transfer a Umatic 3/4" video cassette, so you might reach out to him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Buncher Posted December 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2014 Glenn, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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