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Re: 40 Years ago today...
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Tracy Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:53:50 -0400
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One of my brothers in-law is a Hollywood video technician (Sony gets 

involved in there somewhere) and gets paid oodles of money for old media 

conversions.



Commercial videos only, movies in particular.



Appropriate U-Matic video...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLik4iienPY





On 4/27/23 00:50, ED SHARPE wrote:

> There us also the possibility that more than one umatic tape  exists!

> "a foolish man possess only a single copy"

> At the time this would have been considered important First thing we always did upon return of an important shoot was to make a back up...either to similar tape or to a better format which at that time at a station would have been a 1 inch transport.....

> Ed#

> Sent from AOL on Android

>   

>    On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 9:34 PM, Stan Sieler<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:   Re:

>

> On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 4:42 AM Tracy Johnson <

> [log in to unmask]> wrote:

>

>> So what you're saying, is you don't have a copy, you have the original.

>> (Or at least the backup.)

>>

>> One of you must have the original, so the other must have the backup?

>>

> Well, not only do I have the true original, in U-Matic (preceding Betamax,

> BTW),

> I also had permission, not that it was needed, from Chuck Shimada.

> and...

> I also bought it from the owner.

>

> The fact that Denys happened to be a board member who happens to have a

> later copy is not of particular interest, sorry.

> And, BTW, I have no problems with him doing anything with it.

>

> The video, after all, should be the property of all the users, and should

> not be commercialized.

> That's why I'm giving the original to the museum, to make it available to

> all users.

> (And, that's why I paid for conversion from U-Matic to digital video

> format.)

>

> SS

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Tracy Johnson

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