|
|
| Transfer VHS, Beta, Hi8, 8mm, Helical Scan EIAJ, Skip Field, Umatic, Betamax, and Video tapes to DVD. Recover Flood Damaged, dirty, broken, wrinkled, antique vintage tapes to DVD. Videotapes on DVD are convenient viewing and for long term digital storage archive. Videotape to DVD VHS to DVD, Super VHS, S-VHS VHS-C to DVD PAL, Secam VHS Beta, BetaMax, Digital8, Digital 8, 8mm Camcorder Hi8, Hi-8 camcorder MiniDV, mini DV, DVC | Video tape to DVD $25 (2 hours max). Duplicate DVD copies $10 each. Long tapes $25 first 2 hour DVD and $15 for each additional DVD from same tape. Short tapes combined onto same DVD $25 first tape, $15 for each additional tape; 2 hour max. Includes labeled DVD, Case, and Insert; a still photo of our choice is normally printed on the DVD insert. Want to edit it yourself? Let us save your .avi digital transfer files to an external Hard Drive, or MPEG2 file to DVD or USB Flash drive. $25 first tape (2 hours max) and $15 for each additional tape. (5 minutes .avi ~ 1GB, 1 hour .avi ~ 12GB) | Tape Preview Tape Screening | Don't know what is on your tapes? Tape Preview $15, approximately 1 minute of material emailed to you for identification and $5 credited towards the transfer if you proceede with the work. | EIAJ, EIAJ-1 b&w EIAJ-2 color Skip Field, Skipfield 1/2 -inch wide open reel videotape for Helical Scan recorders. | EIAJ -1 $75 first 30 minutes: black and white open reel video tape to DVD. EIAJ -2 $75 first 30 minutes: color vintage open reel video tape to DVD. Skip Field $75 first 30 minutes: black and white open reel videotape to DVD. add $40 for each additional 30 minutes. Includes normal recovery techniques including tape baking if required. Includes labeled DVD, Case, and Insert; a still photo of our choice is normally printed on the DVD insert. Note that our price is the same regardless of the video format. Many customers do not know the format their tapes were recorded with. The same physical tape media was used for many different video formats. These tapes were recorded during a time with few standards much like the Beta vs VHS wars. Note that this is very early video technology and usually contain sync, start/stop disturbances, and dropouts. | U-Matic tape Umatic cassette 3/4 -inch wide video tape | U-Matic, 3/4 -inch, UMatic cassette video tape to DVD $55 for the first 30 minutes. add $30 for each additional 30 minutes. Includes normal recovery techniques including tape baking if required. Includes labeled DVD, Case, and Insert; a still photo of our choice is normally printed on the DVD insert. | Tape Baking Sticky Tape Syndrome Sticky Shed | Tape baking $25 first tape, $10 each additional tape. Tape baking is often required due to 'Sticky Tape Syndrome', the technique usually makes tapes temporarily playable again long enough to make a new recording, it is not a permanent remedy. | Laserdisc to DVD Laser disk to DVD | LaserDisk, Laser disk to DVD $30 for first 60 minutes, $15 each additional 30 minutes. | | Video Tape Repairs | Most Repairs $25 Is your tape Broken, crinkled, wrinkled, broken, splice, broken housing, missing parts, dirty? Most media can be completely or partially recovered. IF NOTHING IS SAVED WITH OUR BEST EFFORT - YOU PAY ONLY RETURN SHIPPING (if you want it returned). Your approval required if cost s more. Repaired tapes should be transferred to other media and played sparingly | | Flood Damaged, Wet, muddy tapes | Wet or dry, dirty, contaminated, flood damaged tapes. Recover and transfer $55 first tape, $40 each additional tape. Success depends on many factors including type of tape and your proper handling before we get it. See our quick notes on the Home page and additional info in FAQ's. | | Included | On- screen menu. DVD Chapters approximately every 10 to 15 minutes. High Quality DVD media (we do not use 'cheap' disks) Time Base Correction (TBC) standard Minor exposure and color correction. Noise reduction. Recorded and Labeled DVD, Case, and Insert. You suggest a Title. Everything professionally packed for return shipment. | | Other | $25 minimum order. $4.50 normal standard packing/shipping fee. Extra duplicate copies of DVD, case, and insert is $10 each. One copy of 'out of print' copyrighted material for your own personal use. | | GreentreeAV.com | Central Illinois. Saint Jacob. Madison County. IL | | Pay by check or we can bill using PayPal |
Email us - Click here Shipping Label - Click here Testimonials from real people [brackets are our comments]. To see the only video of my mother before she died, and to see our two young sonsplaying at Thanksgiving Day family get-together was priceless. Our grown sons and daughter-in-laws have now seen it too. For all of us, it was am experience more poignant than any photo album could provide [EIAJ]. Thanks so much for you help in piecing the miniDV tapes of our wedding together on one DVD. Tarah Your service was fast, very fairly priced, and your communications was clear and timely. I have already recommended you to friends for their own tapes, and will continue to do so. Dave I received the EIAJ dvds today; Viewed the video and am pleased with the result. Best wishes. Mel Thanks for a great job. Enclosed is a check for 2 additional DVDs. Thanks, Pat We got the [VHS] 'flood' tapes and DVds yesterday. We sat and watched one of them last night and it made us cry good tears. Thank you for your help. We did not expect to ever see our (little) kids again. Cindy DVD looks good. Only saw the [Skip Field] tape once after I made it in 1973 for a college class. Chuck I just wanted to say 'thank you'. The DVDs turned out fantastic. and you made it so easy. I cried when I watched them. I am going to cry happy tears with my Mom when we watch them together for Mother's Day. I am looking for the last 2 [8mm camcorder] tapes and will get them to you soon. I am going to pass your card around to a couple of my friends. Have a great day. Dawn We had a really old videotape at the university and did not know what was on it. We had tried for several months to find someone to play it for us and were unsucessful. Green Tree made the tape playable again with baking and gave us a preview of the contents so we could decide what to do next. Thank you. JJ
FAQ What should I do with water, flood, or sewage damaged VHS, audio, or other magnetic tapes? 
Rinse contaminants from wet VHS or other tapes - gently. DO NOT try to play them! | 
Do not dry: seal wet tape in bag and keep cool. Prevent mold. |  Flood mud and fire smoke gets into everything. |
Many flood damaged tapes can be saved with some up- front attention. Do not dry wet tapes out. Gently rinse it in a bucket of clean water (not tap water which contains chlorine) to remove oils, surface mud, etc. Then gently rinse in distilled water to further clean and dilute contaminants that may have been in flood waters or sewage. Seal in two clean ziplock bags while still wet and store in the refrigerator until arrangements are made for professional help. Ship by a quick method. PREVENT mold growth. In general, VHS, Beta and other larger format tapes have a very high recovery rates. Hi8, Digital8, and miniDV (DV) tapes are much smaller and delicate even in the new condition, the success rate for these is a bit lower. We won't know until we try...
What kinds of damaged media can be repaired? We have been successful at transferring damaged media to new media stock, including: Wrinkled, creased, broken magnetic tapes of various kinds. Wet, moldy open reel, and cassette type magnetic tape. ‘Sticky’ magnetic tape due to material breakdown, which requires a special baking procedure to become temporarily playable. Photo editing to reduce crinkles, yellowing, and other defects. 8mm movie film with ‘vinegar syndrome’ cleaned and lubricated for transfer. Various mechanical problems with audiocassettes and videotapes including jammed spindles, broken case, broken tape, missing wheel locks, etc. Significant ‘pops’ in grooved audio records. Scratched CDs and DVDsWhile media can be repaired to make the transfer to new stock; many repairs should be viewed as a temporary measure and cannot restore it to its original strength and condition. The original should be kept and safeguarded, and not played unless necessary. Replaced cases and mechanical parts are probably the only type of lasting repair.
What are ‘sticky’ tapes? The so-called ‘stick’ tape syndrome is fairly common in 1970’s vintage magnetic tapes due to an unknown issue with the long term affects of the materials used. “Sticky’ tapes will leave a sticky, gooey deposit in video heads and on all mechanical parts it comes in contact with during playback. This condition cannot normally be identified by simple visual inspection of the tape, it will appear to be normal.‘Sticky’ tape is generally accepted to be a long term aging defect that becomes apparent on certain magnetic tapes. It has been shown that tape with this problem will often respond favorably to a heating method which temporarily reduces the symptoms long enough to transfer the tape to a different medium. The effect will usually last from several weeks to months, but it is temporary.
Can you record onto media other than CD and DVD? Yes; we can record onto most media upon request including cassette tape, reel to reel tape, VHS, VHS-C, 8mm camcorder tape, Hi-8 camcorder tape, etc.
My new CD/ DVD won't play? Computer writ-able media such as CD-R, DVD-R, DVD+R will play in most CD/DVD players made after about 2002. Some CD/DVD manufacturers were slow to support these media standards. If you have a preference for DVD-R or DVD+R media, please let us know, we can supply either type. To prove that the media is not defective try it in several players, especially newer ones. Please contact us if after trying several newer players if it still will not play; we will work with you to find a solution. Having a new CD/DVD that you can not play does neither one of us any good.
What are typical run times of various media? DVD: 2 hours with standard MPEG2 encoding. VHS T-120: 2 hours SP mode. 4 hours LP. 6/8 hours EP, SLP mode. VHS-C: 30 minutes. SLP 1hr, 30 min. Hi8-120: 2 hours SP mode. 4 hours LP mode. Other lenghts available. Digital8: 1 hour SP. 1 1/2 hour LP mode. 1/2 inch EIAJ-1, EIAJ-2, SkipField Video tape and other 1/2 inch formats (12.7mm) | | | Reel Dia. (Inch) | Model | Feet | Meters | Rated Time 7 1/2 ips | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-30 for Helical Scan Video Tape Recorders | | V-30 | 380 | 115 | 9 | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-30H 25 micron 1.0 mil polyester backing. 300 Oersted. | 5 | V-30H | 1210 | 370 | 30 | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-31 | 5 | V-31 | 1240 | 380 | 30 | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-32 25 micron 1.0 mil polyester backing. 300 Oersted. | 7 | V-32 | 2370 | 720 | 60 | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-71 | 5 | V-71 | 1240 | 380 | 30 | | | Sony Helical Scan Video Tape V-72 25 micron 1.0 mil polyester back. Cobalt high density 530 Oersted. | 7 | V-72 | 2370 | 720 | 60 | | | Sony Empty Take-up Reel RH-5E | 5 | RH-5E | - | - | - | | | Sony Empty Take-up Reel for V-31 tape RH-72V | 5 | RH-72V | | | | | | Sony Empty Take-up Reel for V32 tape RH-7V | 7 | RH-7V | | | | | | Memorex Chroma 80- 10C Memorex Chroma 80- 9C Memorex Chroma 80- 8C | 5 5 7 | 10C 9C 8C | 1200 x 2400 | 365 x x | 30 30 x | | | Scotch 3M Video Tape 361 | 5 | 361 R148B | 1200 | 365 | 30 | | | Scotch 351 polyester backing. For Helical Scan Recordings | 7 | 351 | 2400 | | 60 40 @ 12ips | | | Panasonic NV-P71 Panasonic NV-P530 Cartrage cassette Manufactured by Matushita Electric Industrial Co., LTD | 7 Cartrage | NV-P71 x | 2400 x | | 60 30 | | | | | | | | |
Panasonic NV-5110 EIAJ-Z video recorder for NV-P530 Cartrages; produced about 1969, 1970. Panasonic NV-3020 EIAJ-2 color 1/2 inch VCR. Serial number range H004392J. SONY CV-2000 Skip Field B&W open reel VTR intro 1965, Serial number range 15095 (1988?) SONY AV-3650 EIAJ-1 B&W 1/2 inch VTR. Serial number range 35,470. SONY AV-8600 EIAJ-2 color videocorder. Serial number range 11,610 - 22,847. Early VTR Equipment - Serial Number vs Date of Manufacture | | Type | Introduced | | Tape Transport Speed | | | | | | Sony CV-2100 | Skip Field | 1967 | Sn 9561, Dc 8551 | 7.5 ips (19.05cm/s) | | Sony CV- 2200 | Skip Field | 1967 | | | | Sony CV-2400 | Skip Field, portable | 1967 | | | Panasonic NV-8100A, AD Panasonic NV-3020 | non-EIAJ EIAJ-1 B&W | 1968 19xx | | | Panasonic NV-3110, NV-3120 Panasonic NV-3160 | EIAJ-2 color EIAJ color | 1971 197x | | | Sony AV-3600 | EIAJ-1 standard | 1969 | | | | Sony AV-3650 | EIAJ-2 color | 1974 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Key to table: first number id the serial number, then=, then datecode (xxyy where xx is last digits of the year, yy is the week). This number can usually be found somewhere inside the chassis of the unit. It can be stamped or from a marking on a part such as the large electrolytic capacitors C001, or transformer. Anyone that owns such equipment and has reason to open it up, look for this number. I would be glad to add the Sn/ Datecode to the chart; each of us individually will own only a few of these pieces of equipment. Collectively, we can have a valuable serial number resource.
VHS Video tape Information | Type | Model | Feet | Meters | Time NTSC (min) SP | Time NTSC (min) LP | Time NTSC (min) EP | | Memorex T-120 | T120HS | | 246 | 120 | 240 | 360 | Sony T-120 Sony T-160 | T-120VR, premium High Durability T-160VL, Premium Grade | | 246 327 | 120 160 | 240 320 | 360 480 | | TDK T-120 | T120HS, Super Avilyn High Standard | | 246 | 120 | 240 | 360 | | TDK T-120 | T-120RVBH, Premium Grade | | | 120 | 240 | 360 | | RCA T-120 | T120H Standard Grade | | | 120 | 240 | 360 | | Scotch / 3M T-120 | T 120 EG | | | 120 | 240 | 360 | JVC S-VHS | ST-120 SV, Super VHS | | 246 | 120 | | 360 |
Compact Video Cassette, CVC, VHS-C Videotape camcorder format | Model | Feet | Meters | SP Time (min) | EP SLP (min) | | Panasonic super high grade, VHS-C | SHG TC-30 | | | 30 | 90 | Fuji super high grade, SH Grade, SHG | Super HG TC-30, EC45 | | | | | JVC T-30 EHGDU Hi-Fi Scotch TC-30 Funai, Technicolor CVC V30 model 712 | TC-30, EHG 45 | | | 30 | 90 |
First VCR, Funai Technicolor Model 212 introduced 1980. Model F212A, 212D, 212E. JVC GX-44E. Grundig Model VP-100. BETA, BETAMAX Video tape Information | Type | Model Rated 750 Oersted. | Feet | Meters | Time NTSC (min) Beta | Time NTSC (min) Beta II | Time PAL (min) Beta III | | BASF | Beta L500 chrome p/n 54552 | | 150 | 60 | 2 | 3 | BASF BASF BASF | Beta L750 NTSC Chrome Beta L750HG chrome super Beta L750ESB Dynamicron | | 222 | 90 | 180 | 270 | Maxell Maxell | Betamax EX750 Epitaxial Betamax EX120 | | | | | | | PD Magnetics Dupont | HG750 Chrome (High Grade Cromium Dioxide Magnetic Tape) | | | | | | Scotch 3M 1982 Videocassette | L-750 Videocassette | | | | | | Sony Sony | Beta L-750 ES, ES/L-750 L-750 ESB Beta Dymanicrom | | 222 | 90 | 180 | 270 | | Other Beta types | L-250, L-500, L-830 Beta, Super Beta, Super Hi-Band, Beta hi-fi, BNR | | | | | | | Memorex | L-500 video cassette | | | | | |
U-matic Video Cassette Tape - introduced 1972 | Model | Model | Feet | Meters | Time (minutes) | | AMPEX 187 | U-matic KCA-30 | | | 30 | | AMPEX 197 | U-matic BCA-60 | | | 60 | | AMPEX 297 | U matic SP, 297 SPS-20 small size cassette | | | | | Dupont | KCS | | | 30 | Scotch 3M UCA Scotch 3M UCA-60 | Umatic UCA 30 Color Plus Umatic UCA60 High Energy | | | 30 60 | SONY KSA-60 SONY KSP-30 | Umatic videocassette U-matic SP, KSP-30 | x 610 | x 186 | 60 30 | SONY KSA | Umatic KSA-60BRST small size cassette | | | 60 |
8mm Video Tape Casettes | Type | Model | Feet | Meters | Time NTSC (minutes) | Time PAL (minutes) | Sony 8mm MP 120 | Video8 P6 120MPR | | 106 | SP 120 LP 240 | SP 85 LP 170 | | Maxell Hi8 120 | Hi8 XR- Metal P6-120 XR | | 105.6 | Hi8 SP 120 Hi8 LP 240 Digital8 60 | | TDK 8mm Premium super Finavinx metal particle tape | P6-120MP | | | | |
miniDV Video Tape Casettes | Type | Model | Feet | Meters | Time NTSC (minutes) | Time PAL (minutes) | | TDK MiniDV 60 | DVC60 DVM60 ME | | | SP 60 LP 90 | | | Sony MiniDV 60 | DVM60 ME | | | SP 60 LP 90 | | | Maxell MiniDV 60ME | DVM60SE | | | SP 60 LP 90 | | | JVC MiniDV 60 | DVM60 ME M-DV60DU | | | SP 60 LP 90 | |
Laserdisk, Laser Disk Media - introduced 1979 | Type | Model | Time NTSC (minutes) | Time PAL (minutes) | Scotch 3M Laser Videodisc Copyright 1990 | 34-7017-4924-3 | 60 per side | | | | |
Magnavox and Pioneer
| |
Hurricane Authur, Bertha, Hurricane Fay, Gustov, Hanna, Ike, Hurricane Kyle, Tornado, FIRE, Flooded Basement damage sewage damaged Smoke damage tapes movies film natural disaster damaged media VHS 8mm Beta. Alton IL Advantage EDGE, Granite City Journal, Highland Shoppers Review, St. Louis Saint Louis Post- Dispatch MO, News- Democrat MO, Collinsville IL, South County Journal St Louis MO, Riverfront TiGreentree Audio Video Company is dedumes Saint Louis MO, South County Shopper MO, St. Louis Review MO, St. Louis Business Journal Missouri, Alton Telegraph Newspaper Illinois, Home Movies,
Greentree Audio Video is dedicated to transfer and reformat modern video tape formats such as VHS, Beta, Hi8, and 8mm videotapes onto DVD for convenient viewing and reliable storage. We recover and preserve reel to reel antique vintage video formats like EIAJ 1/2 inch Helical Scan, Skip Field, U-matic cassettes, and Laser-Disk formats so they are not lost. |
Did you find this page useful? Suggest a Change - Click Here | |
| |
|
|