Vendor Contact Info

Production Contacts

Liza Kastrilevich
Freelance Editing and Color-Grading / MIAP Grad
lk2900@nyu.edu
603-957-8059

List of places that can make DCPs

Nathan Ross with Blackwater Digital (Atlanta, GA)
Luiza Gonçalves (This is her intake form)
Bill Hill at Hilltop Productions (Santa Fe, NM)
DKP in Chicago
Dean Kavanagh: kavanagh_dean@yahoo.ie. He’s in Ireland but comes highly recommended from Kieran O’Leary
Simple DCP has been suggested. They send direct to festivals, a digital link, and/or can send you the Linux DCP playable hard drive.

Video Contacts

Ken Zin
Da bomb, always and forever
kenrzin@gmail.com
(650) 465-0441

Dave Witherell
BAVC’s in-house technician. Lives in San Rafael
wdave1020@gmail.com
415-685-6326

Backporch Broadcast
Per Rob Mobley: “They have done excellent work on some of our legacy decks; U-matics, VHS, Betacam/IMX, Sony AV-8650 EIAJ and Sony CV-2200.”
5023 B.U. Bowman Drive
Buford, GA 30518
Contact: Burt Jones
Phone: 770-932-9935
email: burt@backporch.tv
website: https://backporch.tv/service/

Waveform Audio Recommendd by Freedom Archives for video deck repairs (925) 348-2246 waveformav@gmail.com

Jim Wagner
Ampex Field technician, recommended for Ampex VP3 1” repair by Paul Grippaldi
925-409-5455

Digital Revolution (Paul Grippaldi)
They can transfer some formats we can’t, and may able to make DCPs http://www.digitalrevolution.tv/

Digitron A/V
https://digitronav.com/
Diagnosis cost 120, applied to repair. Turnaround is 5-10 days. But they’re in LA

I&N Electronics
Nnot local, but very very helpful and specializes in Hi8 repair
(310) 968-0555

Patrick Gravier (savon-pat)
https://www.ebay.com/usr/savon-pat
714-377-6360
Repair CRT monitors in LA

Isreal Lopez
Offical Sony Broadcast Support repair guy
323-352-5000
Press 2 then 2 then 2

Ken Merrylees
Sam Long contact; worked for Long at Marin Community TV
ken4e@comcast.net
ken@k4engineering.com
(415) 641-7434

Larry Landes
Former KTVU Engineer; Castro Valley resident; kinda out of the game, but will still\ work on newer professional formats like Digibeta)
(510) 697-0083

Charlie Brown
Berkeley Video Engineering, Sony-trained independent; makes house calls
captcb@pacbell.net
(510) 653-2471

SonyPVS
Located in Texas, Ben Turkus / NYPL use them
18104 Mammoth Cave Blvd
Pflugerville, TX 78660
512-271-SONY
512-517-7159 cell
thomas@sonypvs.com
www.sonypvs.com

Craig Richens
Former IVC employee; works w/ Zin on repair projects
(415) 516-9083

Terrance Smith
former Ampex employee; friend of Zin; helped w/ Ben’s TBC Thesis
2902 Briarfield Av
Redwood City Cal 94061
slsmith@slsmith.com
(650) 366-0218 land line
(650) 996-1304 cell

TGrant Photo
Panasonic AG-1980 expert; not actually sure about name
support@tgrantphoto.com
(330) 948-4421
(330) 391-0880
http://www.tgrantphoto.com/sales/index.php
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vcr-repair/4435-best-place-jvc.html

Norman Mazursky
Repairs Sony Hi-8 Handycams and Video Walkmen
N. Madjlessi
16714 Hugh Torrance Pkwy
Huntersville, NC 28078
i.mazarsky@att.net
(310) 968-0555

RTI Service/Tech Support
RTI (Research Technology Int.)
4700 Chase Ave.
Lincolnwood, IL 60712
TEL: 1-845-677-3000 EXT 359
FAX: 1-847-677-1311
Direct: Luis Torres
1-773-759-7811

Chicho, Inc.
Possible support for RTI equipment
Robert Manolov
(225) 772-8326
sales@chichoinc.com

Misc. Other Contacts on the Video Preservation Website
http://videopreservation.conservation-us.org/dig_mig/repair_historicVTR.html

Audio Repair Contacts

Michael Gore
All-around badass for open reel and prob more
$ 100 for the FIRST hour on any equipment group brought in at the same time….
$ 75.00 per hour then on remaining labor after the first hour…
54 Ney St SF 94112
goreski@analogrules.com
(415) 469-0136

Midnight Bob
631-258-5441
Ben loves this guy for Tascams, but he may be a bit expensive

Willy Herman
Nakamichi repair guru
http://www.willyhermannservices.com/
925-376-2146

Shuster Sound, Bob Shuster
235 Old Willets Path
Smithtown, NY 11787
631-862-8273 – Main
631-258-5441- Cell

Jessica Thompson
Coast Mastering, contact for client’s requiring audio clean up)
(510) 984-0554
jessica@coastmastering.com

Parts Vendors

Videomagnetics
Replacement VTR heads
Tony Korte
3970 Clearview Frontage Road - Colorado Springs, CO 80911
800-432-3887
719-390-1313
vmi@csprings.com
http://videomagnetics.com/

IT Vendors

Symply
Michael Johnson
571.265.5719
mj@gosymply.com