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<div>On Mar 2, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Did anyone here see CBS Sunday Morning yesterday? </span></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><snip><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Someone I work with at NBC named Lydia was also interviewed about her 1986 university video on EIAJ tape that she can no longer play because there are no machines available to her to view it with. She said she hadn't seen the program on that tape in 20 years.</span></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>There ARE a number of working EIAJ machines around the country... so she CAN get her tape transferred to something she can both view it from and use to edit, should she want to do that.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>VidPax has that sort of equipment. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This situation is almost as bad as throwing the Carson tapes away. If you have nothing to play them on, you can't archive them for the future. And there's no such thing as a permanent storage medium.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>NBC Today Show, New York</div></blockquote><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That's one of the major reasons for the existence of the Quad Videotape Group: Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That, have fun doing it and socializing along the way.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Speaking of that, don't forget... <b>Tuesday, April 21, 12:30 p.m.: Second Annual Lunch at NAB</b>. </div><div>Location being arranged.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Ted</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></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; "><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-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: 0px; "><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-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: 0px; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary for the <a href="http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/"><font color="#0018ea" style="color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "><u>QuadVideotapeGroup.com</u></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="2" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Helvetica; ">: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></span></span><br></body></html>