Posts Tagged "Video"


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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

Media Preserve has specialized in preserving Audio and Video media formats for the past 40 years.  Although technology has changed, the one thing that has remain constant is change and that change has come at a price. The audio and video media that some may think was a form of preservation of memories and important information has been on a constant downhill progression of degradation. This erosion of the most important elements of...

Read More