<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Park points out good concerns about automated features that do bear caution since the tape media is fragile and innreplaceable. <br><br>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. <br><br>Allan <br><br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "C. Park Seward" <park@videopark.com><br>To: "Quad List" <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br>Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:53:07 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern<br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] Responding to: Excellent Exchange - Non-Contact Extraction of the Program from Quad Tape - Ampex non-moving head<br><br>Great discourse, Allan.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>For tapes that were in good shape, you could run several at a time using several machines. Your labor costs then drops dramatically.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div><div>Best,</div><div>Park</div><div><br></div><div>C. Park Seward</div><div>Visit us: <a href="http://www.videopark.com" target="_blank">http://www.videopark.com</a></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:31 AM, <a href="mailto:allanmc-avtech@comcast.net" target="_blank">allanmc-avtech@comcast.net</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">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. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br></div><br>_______________________________________________
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