ANALOG TAPE IS BACK!!!!

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A source please....

I can't seem to Google up any substatianting evidence.

DM



<am864u@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1107538991.963073.188680@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Sorry, it deserves to be shouted.
> just got the press release, the company that purchased EMTEC's
> equipment and patents will begin production of analog open reel tape by
> June.
> love you all
> am864u
>
> Recordable Media Group International B.V., Oosterhout, The Netherlands
> has been accumulating 37 years of non-interrupted experience on
> magnetic tape manufacturing. With their highly skilled and experienced
> personnel and management, RMG International is fully dedicated to
> magnetic tape. A slim organisational structure enables low overhead.
> When EMTEC closed down, RMG International acquired the EMTEC production
> and quality assurance equipment necessary to convert & complete the
> Oosterhout production lines to the EMTEC standards for audio tape
> production.
>
> RMG International has the EMTEC production know how formulations and
> patents.
>
> Former EMTEC key personnel is assisting in Oosterhout in order to
> maintain the EMTEC standards.
> Following the installation of the EMTEC equipment and positive results
> of comprehensive studies on availability of the necessary raw
> materials, RMG International started prototype coating for audio
> pancake tape and is now preparing for studio tape.
>

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"Scott Dorsey" <kludge@panix.com> wrote in message news:cu0fkg$c2f$1@panix2.panix.com...

> David Morgan \(MAMS\) <mams@NOSPAm-a-m-s.com> wrote:
> >A source please....
> >
> >I can't seem to Google up any substatianting evidence.

> I have been talking to the RMG guys. They've been making tape since the early
> 1970s, and they have basically been saying for the last year or so that they
> were going to be back in the mastering tape business as soon as they could clear
> up their material supply problems.
>
> I gather from the press release that they might have cleared them up.
>
> Likewise, Greencorp has the facilities, materials, and formulae from Zonal and
> they could set up to make the Zonal tapes if they cared. But I cannot convince
> anyone over there that it's worth their time to do so.
> --scott


Where's the PR on this?

Are you keeping up with the SPARS thing?


DM

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here is the press release:

EMTEC-Quality AUDIO TAPE
NOW AVAILABLE !!!

RMG International announces the availability of
EMTEC-Quality audio pancake tape

EMTEC type Max. playing time in CC
FERRO PLUS C-60 & C-100 (C-130, C-180)
FERRO C-60 & C-110
FLX C-60 & C-115
Sample quantities will be available at the end of February/beginning of
March 2005.
Production quantities is scheduled for April 2005.


EMTEC-Quality audio studio tape

EMTEC type Quantegy equivalent type
SM 911 456 Grand Master
LPR 35 457
SM 900 499 - Grand Master Gold Studio
GP 9 - Grand Master Platinum Studio
SM 468 478
PER 368 -
PER 528 -
PM97x series 6xx series
VM 95x series 70x, 8206 series
ADAT Master
formatted & blank ADAT audio
DTRS Master
formatted & blank DA 8
Samples will be available in May 2005.
Continuous supply starts in June 2005.


Recordable Media Group International B.V., Oosterhout, The Netherlands
has been accumulating 37 years of non-interrupted experience on
magnetic tape manufacturing. With their highly skilled and experienced
personnel and management, RMG International is fully dedicated to
magnetic tape. A slim organisational structure enables low overhead.
When EMTEC closed down, RMG International acquired the EMTEC production
and quality assurance equipment necessary to convert & complete the
Oosterhout production lines to the EMTEC standards for audio tape
production.

RMG International has the EMTEC production know how formulations and
patents.

Former EMTEC key personnel is assisting in Oosterhout in order to
maintain the EMTEC standards.
Following the installation of the EMTEC equipment and positive results
of comprehensive studies on availability of the necessary raw
materials, RMG International started prototype coating for audio
pancake tape and is now preparing for studio tape.

RMG International, brief History
1968 Magnetic tape production for open reel and cassette tape started
in
RMG International Oosterhout plant when it was a Philips division.
1981 Joint Venture Philips-Dupont, PD Magnetics B.V., on magnetic tape
production,
brand name PDM. _" Video tape for Video 2000 and VHS, 3480/90 data
cartridges for
IBM tape storage systems.
1991 Installation of state of the art, new plant.
1993 SK, Germany, takes over the Oosterhout plant and renames into MPO
B.V.
(Magnetic Products Oosterhout B.V.).
1998 New, state of the art, coating line goes into operation.
2004 April, renamed to Recordable Media Group International B.V..
2004 November, acquisition of assets and know how for the production
of audio pancakes
for duplication and blank loading and for audio studio tape from
EMTEC Munich plant.


Oosterhout, 4th February, 2005
Recordable Media Group International B.V.

Recordable Media Group International B.V.
Address: Bredaseweg 108,
4902 NS Oosterhout
The Netherlands
P.O. Box: 137, 4900 AC Oosterhout, The Netherlands
Phone: + 31 - 162 - 40 89 50
Fax: + 31 - 162 - 46 26 11
Website: www.rmgi.nl
Email: info@rmgi.nl

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In article <1107549518.954395.261110@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
<am864u@hotmail.com> wrote:
>The chart comparing the tape formulations didnt display correctly.
>Basically it's the BASF/EMTEC stuff, 900, 911, etc. They were
>comparing it to the quantegy equivalent formulations. Also, the
>newsgroup may not show the part of the press release I already quoted.

My suspicion is that the tapes are going to turn out to be considerably
different from the original BASF types, just because of the usual variations
between production facilities. But I also bet the slitting is good and
the bias point is stable from batch to batch.
--scott

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