Oxford Duplication Centre Ltd

  Professional Video Tape Transfer in SD and HD to all Digital Outputs. Our Audio-Visual studio boasts an impressive collection of broadcast machines to include Sony U-matic tape decks for the conversion of all U-matic tapes. We are working extensively with a large production company, working with an NDA for the complete archive of their AV tape collections to broadcast quality Pro-Res digital files.   If we can support you with your archive collection of magnetic video tape, please do contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com or call 01865 457000. Our studio has been transferring video tapes to digital formats for over 12 years, working with production houses, archives, museums and broadcasters in the UK and Europe. We are highly recognised and recommended as one of the leading digitisation companies, supporting clients from short order to complete archive collections. Our Audio-Visual conversion system is built around the World leading AWS Elemental systems to ...

WORKING WITH UNIVERSITIES, PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRIES TO CONVERT ARCHIVES OF U-MATIC TAPE We are highly recommended for our archival conversions to 10bit uncompressed, FFV1 and Pro-Res digital files.  Our services start from 1 unit to the many 1000's, supporting archives in the important conversion of magnetic tape media. Please contact cheryl@oxfordduplicationcentre.com or call 01865 457000 for more information. History of U-Matic Players U-matic  is an analogue recording videocassette format first shown by Sony in prototype in October 1969 and introduced to the market in September 1971. It was among the first video formats to contain the videotape inside a cassette, as opposed to the various reel-to-reel or open-reel formats of the time. By 1974, U-matic had established its dominance in the non-broadcast AV field:   “The U-matic has become so widespread in industrial and business communications,” wrote Broadcast Management/Engineering, “that tape is a new vernacula...