Gamma Ray Digital, Inc.

02/06/2026

Boston area folks: Check out the new exhibit "Freezing Time" at the MIT Museum. We did some scanning on this (for the Doc Edgerton film "Quicker N' A Wink" - a goofy look from the early 1940s at his work with high speed stroboscopic motion picture film. Very cool stuff.

The museum strives to be a place where science, technology, the humanities, and the arts are all used to frame and reframe problems, enabling it to address the compelling questions of our time in new ways.

11/24/2025

Another day, another deck repaired. This Umatic deck had a really bad video signal, squealed horribly when playing or fast forwarding tapes, and all the rubber inside was badly degraded.

It has been completely cleaned and lubricated, new belts, pinch roller, and drive wheel installed. Everything that's supposed to spin, spins nicely now. But the video still looked bad even after a drum swap. So this morning we moved the video board from a parts deck into this one, and now there's a nice clean signal. Just some last minute tension adjustments to do and then it's into the rack!

11/19/2025

For the past several months we've been trying to get our 1" deck up and running. Had a bit of a breakthrough this past week. We isolated the problem to one of the TBC circuit boards, and then this morning figured out exactly which component failed. Check out this video showing the whole process (well, some of it at least).

https://youtu.be/-Lrp02Is2hs?si=SDNfTuXgql_5g7XU

Now we need to dial it in, get it in a mobile rack with all the other stuff it needs (dedicated Waveform monitor and CRT monitors, A/D converter so we can get SDI audio and video out of it at the deck, and all that. Hopefully we'll have this ready to capture client tapes very soon.

In June 2025 we took delivery of a Sony BVH-2000 1" Type-C open reel VTR. Sadly, it wasn't well shipped and FedEX Freight managed to drop it. They delivered ...