<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Don,<div><br></div><div>There's a lot of Quad material that was donated by stations to archives. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>LoC has tons.</div><div><br></div><div>That kind of stuff is what needs to be migrated.</div><div><br></div><div>I may be able to get AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archives) to run a survey. Will advise.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 28, 2008, at 3:43 PM, Don Norwood wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>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).</div><div> </div><div>Does anyone have any reliable info regarding how much quad material is still out there? My impression has been that most broadcast stations have<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> already disposed of their quad tape. I wouldn't think there was much 1" left either.</div><div> </div><div>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.</div><div> </div><div>Don</div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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