This set of two EIAJ open-reel videotapes was acquired by OT member Poita on eBay. I agreed to digitize them.
The tapes are Memorex open-reel black and white tapes. I transfered them to computer using a Panasonic NV-3160 EIAJ deck, with dropout compensation. The signal was passed through an AVTools timebase corrector, and a Canopus ADVC-100 digital converter.
EIAJ at best has resolution similar to VHS. These particular tapes were in superb condition (for EIAJ), although exhibited severe sticky-shed and thus required baking as most EIAJ tapes do. The tapes were baked for 6 hours in an American Harvest food dehydrator, eliminating the sticky shed.
The resulting digitization is SD .avi.