ASK & DISCUSS INDEX

10 years, 1 month ago - Simon Wood

Northern Visions in Belfast has all the formats you need but they're not a commercial setup so you have to be very cooperative when approaching them. Have a look at NVTV (www.nvtv.co.uk) and see if your material might be of interest to a community TV station in Belfast. Tell then you are willing to sit and do the transfers in Belfast yourself.

10 years, 1 month ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Genlocks!

10 years, 1 month ago - Paddy Robinson-Griffin

Try along around some of the edit facilities places in Manchester/Salford - or further afield in Soho. I doubt they see a lot of umatic any more (they were pretty much extinct by the end of the 80's), but you might find one who keeps a machine in case. Also look in tv-bay, maybe someone has an old deck for sale.

I have a handful of old Beta decks, can't remember if they're SP or SR, most likely SR I think, so may not be much help.

Gosh, remember how much of a pain tape was - when was the last time anyone you know had to think about gwnlocks? ;-)

10 years, 1 month ago - John Lubran

Having been in operation for over thirty years we've kept at least one edit VCR from every era. Not sure the Sony 1" deck is fully functional but every format after that is represented somewhere around here. Those machines are like works of art to me, I keep them in tower racks; I think we'll get the whole bunch properly set up and connected with a computer so we can provide a historic formats conversion. Currently, apart for our own projects, It's too much of a palaver that's rarely worth the time and effort but perhaps it might be if we set up a permanent ready to use process. There are a few outfits in the UK who provide this service, to be commercially viable though it ought not be cheap.

10 years, 1 month ago - Philip Carr

Bushey Video may be able to help.

10 years, 1 month ago - Raza Mallal

Thank you all for your responses. I think I have found somewhere to convert them.