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Donald – I've shopped around and the Exabyte is not only the industry standard, it also seems to be the best value for the money. John T. has a favorite place in S.F. for doing his transfers, FTI but to give you an idea of what types of "service bureaus", actually Post houses, are involved in providing this service here is a short list. Action Video Hollywood – Manhattan Transfer NY, NY. Pacific Video Resources S.F. – Digital Post & Graphics Seattle The Post Group Hollywood – Video Post Graphics Dallas TX. All highend facilities. But actually any facility with an Abekas can do it if they have an Exabyte which many do as the DDR has a built in facility for back-up using the Exabyte format. I cringe when I hear stories like what you experienced with the tape drive and the "service bureau". This is always a concern when using a "service bureau" but the names provided are very professional facilities with a typical 24 hour turnaround. The exabyte is a great all-around backup, and I think a very good value when compared it to Colorado or Mountain, where I got cost estimates of 2 times greater at a minimum. With this setup you can also reverse the process, ie do rotoscoping of the highest quality only limited by your source material and its format. If you're interested I'll email you some more particulars.