[QuadList] Quad Libraries

[Ted Langdell]

Hi, Don,

There's a lot of Quad material that was donated by stations to archives.

The U of Georgia at Athens Library has quite a bit of Quad from  
Atlanta area stations, and from early Peabody award entries that were  
submitted on Quad... because that was the only videotape at the time.

LoC has tons.

That kind of stuff is what needs to be migrated.

I may be able to get AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archives) to  
run a survey.  Will advise.

Ted

On Dec 28, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Don Norwood wrote:

> The December issue of Broadcast Engineering has an article on page  
> 90 about archiving.  In the article, it refers to "enormous  
> libraries of quad videotape will be unplayable in a few years" (due  
> to lack of operating equipment).
>
> Does anyone have any reliable info regarding how much quad material  
> is still out there?  My impression has been that most broadcast  
> stations have  already disposed of their quad tape.  I wouldn't  
> think there was much 1" left either.
>
> If no data has been compiled, perhaps a publication such as BE could  
> run a survey to help determine how much material is still on the  
> shelves and what demand really exists for its archival.
>
> Don

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