We forget sometimes how far video technology has come in just the past few years. I recently needed to get some video from an old 2" Quad videotape and discovered that the machines that can play them are almost non-existent, not to mention people who know how to operate and maintain them. Also the tape manufacturers built in a time-bomb that is literally destroying these old tapes as they sit on shelves - even in properly climate controlled rooms! My friend Larry Odham just happens to have a working Ampex VR-1200B - and he shows us what it takes.

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