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Re: [VAL] DVD of Old Airstream Caravans



Hey Daisy

The Capetown film is online at
http://www.capetowntocairo.com/
You have to register and login to see it.

Herb

> Hi Daisy:
>
>    Airstream has numerous original cans of the films in a pretty 
> (better than a year ago) safe place, a large metal cabinet in the 
> marketing department.  My techie DVD producer friend still has the DVD 
> Digital Master (from which copies are made), and I have a DVD here, so 
> the DVDs are spread around.
>
>    I have no idea as to cost.  The films have already been digitized 
> at a bargain basement price to the VAC years ago, but they should be 
> copied and put onto discs with newer DVD making software.  Buying 
> commercial quality DVD making software used to be expensive, but might 
> be more reasonable today???  I don't know anything about that area.
>
>    Airstream had a Calif. company copy one of our DVDs and relay the 
> digital tracks on DVD for them.  The VAC's DVD problems of a few years 
> ago came in part from incompatibility among the various DVD formats.
>
> Fred