[QuadList] Responding to: Excellent Exchange - Non-Contact Extraction of the Program from Quad Tape - Ampex non-moving head

[allanmc-avtech at comcast.net]

Park points out good concerns about automated features that do bear caution since the tape media is fragile and innreplaceable. 

BTW, even though storage space and its expense will always be an issue to be dealt with, I personally do not favor discarding the original master tapes even after they are transferred. We should always be hopeful that a future technology will enable a superior playback. Keeping the original cool and dry does not seem to be too much to ask.... as long as we can encourage the boss to keep paying the rent on the archive. 

Allan 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. Park Seward" <park at videopark.com> 
To: "Quad List" <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:53:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Responding to: Excellent Exchange - Non-Contact Extraction of the Program from Quad Tape - Ampex non-moving head 

Great discourse, Allan. 


However, if I only had one chance to transfer a quad tape that was falling apart, I would want one of those expensive grey hairs doing it. 


For tapes that were in good shape, you could run several at a time using several machines. Your labor costs then drops dramatically. 


I do shutter at the thought of an automated process that causes errors that is not discovered until years later and many of the processed tapes were not considered useable and the originals had been discarded or had fallen apart. 








Best, 
Park 


C. Park Seward 
Visit us: http://www.videopark.com 


On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:31 AM, allanmc-avtech at comcast.net wrote: 


In my opinion, my friends who remain at NAVCC might be attracted to a new method of recovering the programs from those tapes in a dependable and economically way that is not based solely on expensive expert labor doing one tape at a time. 

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