<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, Adair,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the links. An interesting read.</div><div><br></div><div>Are all the tapes mainly PAL-M, or just the Umatic?</div><div><br></div><div>I see that BCN is mention as the 1" format.</div><div><br></div><div>There seems to be a TR-70 being used as a tape cleaner. Do I see rolls of toilet paper being used as a cleaning surface? Or has someone had Pellon material cut at wider than 2" and rolled up?</div><div><br></div><div>That would be useful.</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Ted</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Quad Videotape Group</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 1, 2014, at 5:45 PM, Adair Garcia Comaru via QuadList wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Adair Garcia Comaru <<a href="mailto:adair.comaru@tvc.com.br">adair.comaru@tvc.com.br</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August 1, 2014 5:46:41 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Quad tapes restoration in Brazil</b><br></span></div><br><br>Hi everyone,<br><br>Here at Sao Paulo Brazil, has a public broadcast television station<br>called TV Cultura, they are running a amazing job of restoration. With two<br>RCA TR70 fully operational plus a rewind unit, they are digitizing from<br>Quad 2", 1", Betacam and U-Matic tapes<br> (mainly Pal-M) to Quicktime mov archives and then to LTO backup tapes, at<br>total around 130,000 hours of programs, it is an epic job for generations<br>to come. They "un-retired" some old engineers in order to teach new ones<br>and does this job. Unfortunately these<br> old videos are available only by order, not free at web.<br><br>TV Cultura YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/cultura">https://www.youtube.com/user/cultura</a><br>MAM System by "Media Portal":<br><a href="http://www.mediaportal.com.br/noticias/tv-cultura-salto-tempo">http://www.mediaportal.com.br/noticias/tv-cultura-salto-tempo</a><br><br><br>Best regard,<br><br><span><Adair_584.jpg></span><span><Adair_586.jpg></span><span><Adair_589.jpg></span><span><Adair_593.jpg></span><br><br>______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br><br>Change subject to reflect thread direction. Thanks.<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Send QuadList list posts to QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com<br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br>http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>