This website and mailing list is focused on 2" Quadruplex Videotape:
The Recorders, Recording, Playback, Maintenance, Equipment Design and Tape Preservation,
and the Preservation of Knowledge about these subjects so that knowledge can
be used by new people today or years from now to preserve the content contained on Quad tapes.

Sharing your experiences working with Quad tapes, recorders, their quirks and foibles can be very helpful in migrating the thousands of aging Quad videotapes now just sitting on shelves at archives world-wide.

Members of this group are working with the Library of Congress National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia at the request of Steven Nease, the Chief Technology Officer for the NAVCC.

Historical stories or personal recollections are welcome. We all need a laugh, an "Ah-Ha!" or to
remember when "that happened to me."

A number of Quad Videotape Group Members are attending the
Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference in Savannah, this week.

Click here to learn more, see pictures and
find out where they're gathering for informal events, like dinner Wednesday, Nov. 12.

AMPEX Customers were looking at this brochure in the summer and fall of 1968
as the developers of Quad recording introduced what may think is THE classic Quad

The VR-2000B was a workhorse, for networks, syndicators, local stations,
production and post-production houses.

And in many archival transfer situations, VR-2000Bs continue to play back
tape after tape after tape, 40 years after the model was first introduced.

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Users depended on the VR-2000 to make multi-generation copies possible, with little loss of color, resolution or stability even after passes for editing and dubbing for syndication.

How many generations did Ampex advertise "perfect color from original tape?"

If you use or used to use or maintain an Ampex VR-2000B
click here to join the QuadList and tell us about it.

Ampex brochure and scans courtesy Don Norwood