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Kata-Productions Digital Tasmania

Locality: Launceston, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6331 4640

Address: 113 George St 7250 Launceston, TAS, Australia

Website: http://www.kataproductions.com.au

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25.01.2022 Having trouble finding tapes and tape cleaners. Look no further. Limited stock of brand new items available here. www.tapes2usbdigital.com.au

22.01.2022 Don't let this happen to you.

21.01.2022 YE Data 8" floppy drives..... soon to be downloading data at our facility.

21.01.2022 It's getting busy as people on lock-down find things in their cupboards. Some old VCRs working overtime. VHS VHS-C Digital8 video8 hard drive camcorder & iPad downloads BVU & Beta SP 8mm movies all to DVD and .mp4 .avi on USB.

19.01.2022 Last TSL round at Windsor Park camera Arnie Katarzynski sound City Park Radio

18.01.2022 How things have changed. www.kataproductions.com.au

18.01.2022 I'm COMING in next week, month, year, decade..... Get your tapes to digital before they're GONE. www.kataproductions.com.au

18.01.2022 Need any tapes films slides or photos digitised? Call 0408 134 415 and we will pick up your tapes etc today.

15.01.2022 Red Sparrow Ditches USB Sticks, CDs, Uses 3.5-Inch Floppies Instead Alex Walker Feb 28, 2018 Red Sparrow is basically an old-fashioned spy movie set in a modern setting. And because we're dealing with spies, someone has to transfer information somehow. But Red Sparrow has a weird way of doing that.... Just after the middle arc of the film, Dominika (Jennifer Lawrence) becomes embroiled in the recruitment of a chief of staff to an American senator, Boucher (Mary-Louise Parker). Boucher asks for $US250,000, for which she will hand over "disks" with stolen satellite images of some sort. The trade is all set to take place in a hotel. The Americans, however, have already hidden duplicate disks in the hotel for Dominika to swap out. An unexpected visit by the SVR station chief in Budapest complicates matters, but after a good bout of intoxication, Boucher arrives and hands over the disks. A series of 3.5" inch floppy disks, rubber-banded together, to be precise. From memory, Boucher hands over about four five or six 3.5" floppies. Each 3.5" floppy can only store a maximum of 1.44MB, and given that Boucher isn't pitched (in the book or the movie) as someone with an extensive amount of technical experience, it's not a stretch to imagine that the images would have been in JPG, PNG, PDF, or another common format. What's equally perplexing among all this is that Red Sparrow is set in the modern day. Towards the beginning of the film, the matron of the school for sparrows explicitly mentions social media. Social media didn't kick in until around 2005-2007, and the matron also adds that the Cold War never ended. On top of that, other members of the film directly reference the SVR by name (rather than the KGB), reinforcing the fact that the movie is set in a post CD-ROM era. With all that considered, wouldn't a chief of staff to a US senator be more likely to use a USB drive - or at the very least, a CD-ROM? Furthermore, how many laptops post-social media actually have a floppy disk drive? And how many of them would you find in Congress? It's all just a little bit confusing. Anyway, if you do happen to see Red Sparrow, keep your eye out for the floppies.

14.01.2022 Help save a TASMANIAN business. We will pick up & deliver any tapes, photos or slides that you want transferred to digital. You don't have to leave home to get service, we'll come to you. CALL 0408 134 415

12.01.2022 Live in greater Hobart area? Want stuff to digital? We can pick up your tapes & films on Saturday 15th Feb. Call 0408 134 415 fast and secure. www.kataproductions.com.au

08.01.2022 This week's highlight is an unusual tape format, Philips VCR-LP. We received 7 tapes from Western Australia to be digitised. One of them won't be, it's a cleaning tape. www.kataproductions.com.au

07.01.2022 Old diaries scanned 400+ pages to .pdf, wedding recording on shellac LPs to USB, a letter on an Amstrad floppy disk recovered to .doc file, 52 VCR tapes to DVD and USB plus we recovered a damaged DVD. This week was serious archiving. www.kataproductions.com.au

06.01.2022 The studios of Kata-Productions Digital are now closed until further notice. Customers can still contact Kata-Productions Digital online. Should services be required Kata-Productions Digital will attempt to assist you. The closure has come about because customers have been advised by our federal and state governments to stay at home or face fines unless shopping for essentials. This business is not classified as an essential service. After reading all the information availabl...e I believe that there is no government support available for this small Tasmanian business. Service industry businesses are not mentioned in the list of business types eligible for support. Outgoings like rates, taxes, power, telecommunications, insurance and security continue to be charged despite this business now having potentially zero income. How long this business can carry these ongoing costs remains to be seen. Thank you to all the customers who supported Kata-Productions Digital over many years. I hope that this business can survive this downturn and serve you again in the future. Take care. Arnie Katarzynski owner/principal

06.01.2022 Kata-Productions has two 8" floppy drives but they are not as yet on line for data recovery. We're working on it.

05.01.2022 Thanks to our customers supporting local business we are still operating with our mail order, pick up and home delivery service. Have your tapes made into digital files or CDs now. www.kataproductions.com.au

05.01.2022 Have you heard? There's this place where you can turn retro thingies into something usable. www.kataproductions.com.au

04.01.2022 Don't remember this guy from my time up there but nice story

01.01.2022 Tape damage like this is bad news. In this case the sound may be lost. If on the other edge, the tape may become unplayable. Caused by worn out VCR. www.kataproductions.com.au