SHIBADEN video tape reel
Complete pricing below.
Shibaden video tape format was introduced by Shiba Electric and Denshi (Japan) in 1967 and is a proprietary ½-inch wide B&W open reel video tape format that pre-dates the 1969 EIA standard. Shibaden is a helical scan skip field format and is not compatible with other skip field formats. Shibaden has approx. 300 lines of resolution. Equipment was marketed under the names of Shibaden, Apeco Teletape, Bell & Howell, and a similar format by Bang & Olfson (Denmark). It uses standard 1/2" inch wide video tape and transports at a speed of 19.05cm/s (7.5ips). Operational playback equipment is rare.
PRICES:
TRANSFER EIAJ helical scan video tape reel (NTSC) to mp4 file: $75 (5" diameter, 30 minute), $125 (7", 60 minute) tape.
CCIR (PAL) European format video transfer to file: add $10 per tape.
USB FLASH DRIVE (Thumb drive) for file(s): $10 each (16Gb max).
DOWNLOAD files: $10 per order (25Gb max).
DVD (DVDs are becoming obsolete): $20 each (2 hours max).
Preview 1-minute download: $30 ($15 credited towards full transfer).
Transfer price included baking when required.
Splices; $2/splice. Mold cleanining: $15.
*Unclaimed material will be discarded after 1 year.
h264.mp4 is a very common and well supported file format; files on a USB flash drive will play in Windows and MAC computers and will plug & play in many modern TVs. Other file formats available by request (avi, mov, etc).
| Machines: Shibaden Hitachi SV-510U, SV-610, SV-700U (basic VTR, 1968), SV-707 (record only portapack), SV-800U (VTR and TV combo 1968). APECO Teletape. |
 Shibaden Video Tape Transfer Services. Shibaden Tape Reels are usually 7-inches diameter. Shibaden Video Tape is 1/2" wide video tape. |
Example tapes:
APECO Tele-tape.
Shibaden R-716, 7-inch 60 minutes, Precision Video Tape, Shiba Electric Co. Tokyo, Japan.
Shibaden 4.5 inch, 11 cm diameter reel.
Shibaden 7-inch, 18cm diameter, 2400 feet, 730m, 60 minutes; Shibaden Video Tape, Tokyo Japan.
1/2"-inch non-standard vintage antique Shibaden format Transfer record archive restoration conversion remastering duplication VTR video tape reel spools to hard drive, Flash drive, Thumbdrive, or web download files, DVD.