[NJARC] Re: Video tape Reel to Reel

[TrainBee at aol.com]

Alex,
    Thank you for the advise.  Darren Hoffman sent along some information 
that relates to my problem. 

 >>>  If the tape is made by ampex and is 1/4" wide, my machine wont play it. 
  It sounds like you have a tape made on an AKAI 1/4" video recorder. Most of 
the common reel to reel recorders of the 70s ran 1/2" tape, which is what my 
Sony runs. Ampex made a machine which if I remember correctally uses 1" tape. 
The only 1/4" reel to reel video machines were made by AKAI, for portable 
camera use and used standard 1/4" audio tape hence the Ampex brand tape. I have 
seen only one of those machines in person and that was about 10 years ago .<<<

So it looks like my problem continues.  This looks like a swap meet item to 
explore for. In the meantime, thank you for your thoughts.  I guess we waited 
too long to view this tape.

Regards,
Joe Devonshire


In a message dated 1/11/2006 2:12:31 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
amagoun at davidsarnoff.org writes:
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Two possibilities from people who do this for a living:

Ray Hallows, 609-924-3468 in Pennington, is a former RCA engineer who
runs a tape-conversion service who might be able to help.  He has a
2-inch RCA videotape machine.

Hagens Recording Studio in Princeton does transfers from Umatic, I
believe: call for more details, 609-452-2127.

best,
Alex

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