Posted by Richard Crowley on 12/20/06 13:33

<dvwool@ix.netcom.com> wrote ...
> My company has a large quantity (~10,000) of analog tapes (3/4" Beta)
> that have been accumulated over the last 25 years. It's no doubt that
> some, if not many, of the tapes are bad, but I'm in the process of
> trying to determine if the remaining can be saved by converting to
> digital format (preferrably MPEG-4).

If you are going to that much trouble, you might want to
consider something higher quality than MPEG-4

> Can anyone tell me if there is a company that can do mass conversion
> as
> I've described above. I'm aware that time, cost, storage will be
> major
> factors, but am interested in discussing those specifics if I can find
> someone who has the capability and could take on a project of this
> size.

There are lots of places that do dubbing, perhaps some
in your own city (which you didn't reveal). For such a
large quantity, you could certainly negotiate specialty
dubbing (such as Betacam to MP4, etc.)

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