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06/18/2025

Sony: No Baloney.

A most unusual day (at least for us):

Sony Two-Inch Quadruplex Videotape and Shipper from Japan.

All programming and all paperwork was in Japanese. Thankfully, a close family friend (born and raised in Japan) has deciphered everything.

The tape stock was back-coated black oxide, similar in feel to Fuji of the era. It played right out of the box with no baking. High RF.

More details to follow.

06/11/2025

Brian Wilson: Rest in Peace!

Brian Wilson, the musician who co-founded the Beach Boys, has died, his family announced Wednesday.

06/10/2025

Happy International Archives Week!

Get on your hands and knees and get going!

05/24/2025

This is getting too close to home!

The longstanding awards show producer died Friday morning.

05/23/2025

Happy Birthday Bosch-Fernseh 1" Type B BCN Format!

50 years ago, this recording and playback scheme entered the market place consisting of studio and remote VTR's with editing capabilities. It was adopted primarily in Europe and the USSR with some sales in the U.S.

DC Video is fortunate to have working NTSC, PAL and SECAM decks for 1" type B videotape migration. There are no more video heads being refurbished for these machines but we have parts on hand to play your tapes today. If you have 1" B format tapes on the shelves, you'd better get on with these transfers before it's done and gone.
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05/20/2025

Today we are digitizing a 1960 two-inch Quad videotape, creating 10-bit uncompressed files for eventual theatre presentation.

Our 1970 third-generation Ampex AVR-1 assumes the responsibilities for this job. Superior results!

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03/20/2025

Another project consisting of the recovery and preservation of historic A level talent performances. The chosen record stock: One dozen Memorex Chroma 90 two-inch Quad. RCA truck with TK-45A cameras making excellent pictures. Record machine: RCA TR-61 (a pair). More details to follow when I can...
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03/04/2025

A last minute urgent transfer from a client this past week occurred involving a 3 hour reel of type C 625/PAL. It was a feature with stereo German language. The container work order stated that a VPR-3 was used for the creation of this tape so we felt it appropriate to transfer this program on an ultra-rare (in the U.S.) Ampex VPR-3 PAL machine with a PAL Zeus. Leave it to Ampex, all went well with this over-sized source reel!

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02/26/2025

Another project completed and shipping out. This is one of three pallets. All going back East to their home.

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02/16/2025

Here is a nice review for the movie we contributed to, "Becoming Led Zeppelin":

In this video I share some thoughts on seeing the long-awaited rock documentary, 'Becoming Led Zeppelin'.Cheers for now,MarkImages fair use for educational p...

02/14/2025

02/11/2025

The film makers wanted good quality from their 625 SECAM source tapes. So we gave it to them!

Thank you for making the biggest IMAX exclusive opening weekend for any music film EVER.

Now playing exclusively in IMAX. In theaters everywhere this Friday.