Posts Tagged "Tape"

U-Matic Video Transfers   U-Matic being one of the very first steps away from an actual Reel To Reel Video recorder was well on it’s way to becoming the Video Home System but it’s price and size seemed to keep it out of homes.  It did however find a home with Corporate and Educational environments for Video. With much use, the U-Matic format proliferated and is still found today within many archives awaiting conversion and...

PCM Digital Audio Adapter to Video Media Preserve specializes in recovering and restoring video tape recorded with the Digital Audio PCM, usually checkerboard visual signature and converting and transferring the resulting Digital Audio stream into a more common and long term digital audio format of your choice.  It is as simple as sending Media Preserve your video tape with the PCM video signal and we will convert it and return your...

Digital Video Tape Transfers Just before everything went to Flash Memory, High Definition Video Tape was the next best thing in video recording.  It came in various flavors.  The flavors we transfer at Media Preserve are as follows: DVCAM, Mini DV Standard and High Definition & Digital-8 All formats are transferred to the new format of your choice: Blu-Ray, DVD, Flash Memory, Hard Drive and Downloadable Files. The most common...

Finally a digital audio recording format that was truly portable.  Though other attempts were previously tried, it wasn’t until the DAT Recorder came along that the devices became small enough and high quality enough to be used in professional applications.  Because of the widespread acceptance of this format professionally, many masters and on-location recordings were captured on the DAT format.  The importance of DAT for a...

Beta-VHS-8mm Video Transfers There came a time in history when the commercial Reel to Reel Video recorder was not an acceptable video format for home users who wanted a way to record their favorite TV shows and movies.   Sony was the first to the table with a solution…  They called it Alpha…  Not long into the research of Alpha did they find that the design was unacceptable for their desired product outcome…  They...