Transfer Old Video

About . . . . twenty, thirty to forty-plus years ago . . . . you (or someone else) made a recording onto a reel of videotape.

And now you want to play it!

Your videotape(s) can be transferred and made available for your viewing and enjoying onto today\'s popular digital DVD. And, each tape is backed-up on a new digital miniDV archival legacy video-cassette that is storable for decades to come.

2-Inch Quad

The image on the left is a Two Inch Quad Tape. Sometimes it was called a Quad Tape or 2" Quad Tape.

On April 14, 1956 Ampex rocked the broadcast industry with quadruplex videotape machines.
The industry would never be the same. Read More

We will transfer your old videotape reels to a DVD.

Call (415) 821-7500 or send me an email: john@antiquevideo.com

Quad Tape

This QUAD videotape machine recorded a TV program\'s picture and sound onto a two inch wide magnetic tape. The Quad VTR existed on it\'s own for nearly two decades, recording and playing back millions of hours of videotaped television programs both nationally and universally.

The thought of its demise moved me to start a business to salvage the remaining shreds of this bygone technology. Starting in the mid 1970s, 99.9% of previous recorded quad tapes had been transferred to some other analog or digital tape format for future viewing and storage.

The 1/10th of one percent remainder is where Antique Video comes into the picture to provide a way to resurrect those remaining precious televised historical magnetic documents from deteriorating forever in time capsules across the nation.