While it’s not always Fuji Video Tapes with mould, nearly all Fujis do have mould or have gone sticky. Especially Video8 / Hi8 - so thin it breaks easily, it’s hard to save

Have spent 2 hours manually winding & cleaning 2 x Hi8 Tapes

SUCCESS this time, customer has been lucky (& my considerable skills, obviously

There’s a misconception that “newer Tapes are safer” - that’s not the case as they are thinner tape & Digital fails very easily

Get your Tapes done ASAP, before it’s too late!

Tis #TapeBoxTuesday

Selection of V2000 Video Tapes

If you’ve never heard of it, it was a short lived Philips Format

Offering Double Sided Cassettes - yep, flip the Tape over. 2 x 4 Hour gave 8 Hours, 16 hours on XP
Superb Still Frame, Noiseless FF & REW

Sadly it was too late to Market

@obsoletemediauk

OK, I’m old

Apparently it was this week in 1982 Sony launched their first CD Player

Sony CD-101

Mine still works, its had a re-cap over the years, but that’s about it

Playing an SQ Quad CD. In the rush to market some early CDs accidentally had Quadraphonic Masters used

Sony SQ Decoder SQD 2020