Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Looks like EIAJ, the closest thing to home video format which had some popularity from about 1969 to 1976 when VHS supplanted it. I digitized about 75 EIAJ tapes for commercial release a few years ago, and I have a nice late-era EIAJ deck. My EIAJ transfers are better than every commercial house I know of - although I know one guy on the east coast who has a modified deck that produces slightly better transfers.
The only other similar format I know of is CV, but that's about 5 years earlier. I also have a good CV deck.
If it is a larger format, I should be able to find someone who could transfer it. I'm a member of an old-vtr's forum and there are people there I could probably cajole into helping.
If anyone here wins it, I'll have a look at it and digitize it if it is of interest. But of course I suggest coordinating so y'all don't bid against each other.
What kind of image quality can you expect from EIAJ recordings? Better or worse than VHS, U-MATIC, etc?