George Blood LP
FEDLINK Vendor ID: GB
Vendor Website: www.georgeblood.com
Company Profile
Founded in 1982, George Blood LP is a leading provider of archival audio and moving image preservation. Our staff of archivists, engineers, and registrars bring due diligence to the table when processing your valued and unique source media. After all, you want to have 100% assurance that your materials are handled with the utmost care and that they are safe and secure while in our custody. We digitize obsolete and deteriorating audio, video, and film media. We can also migrate and translate data from early tape and disc formats. Let George Blood LP help you save important, historic, and rare information to be preserved and shared with generations to come.
Products/Services Available Through the FEDLINK Contract
Direct pick up and drop off of original media available from Boston to DC and beyond, Climate controlled storage, Cleaning, Mold Remediation, Repair, Digitization, Metadata, Archival Rehousing of original media, and Database Solutions.
Details about some of our services include:
AUDIO PRESERVATION
Our bread-and-butter for over 35 years, we specialize in a variety of formats including:
- Grooved media such as Wax and Celluloid cylinders, 78s, 33s, and 45 records, Audographs and more!
- Magnetic tape-based media such as Wire recordings, Reels, Cassettes, Fidelipac, Stenorette, and Magnabelt
- Disc media such as Minidisc, and MP3 CD
- Digital based such as DAT, DASH, DTRS and Alesis ADAT
We clean each record prior to digitization and heads are cleaned after every transfer.
VIDEO PRESERVATION
We have one of the largest fleets of working 2� Quadruplex video machines in the world. Our Ampex quads can play NTSC, PAL, 2-hour long tapes, and tapes without viable control tracks.
From VHS and U-matic to D-9 and IMX, many formats we can also do in PAL. Hey, if you�ve got IVC-9000, we�ll get you files from your tapes!
We clean all video prior to digitization. Baking tapes for Sticky Shed Syndrome is included in the cost.
FILM PRESERVATION
With two Spirit 2K HD/SD/ 2K Telecine machines and a 4K HDR Scanity in our line-up we can handle a wide range of films. An offering of what we can handle:
- Bases: Nitrate, Diacetate, Triacetate, and Polyestar � anything!
- Gauges: 35mm, 16mm, 8mm
- Technical Codes: Original negatives, Workprints, Dupe negatives, Prints, Trims, Pre-print, Fine Grains � anything!
- Sound: 35mm optical tracks only, 16mm optical or magnetic, 8mm silent only
- Formats: Black-and-white, Color, Tinted, Toned � anything!
- Accepted Defects: Splices, Shrinkage up to 5%, Vinegar Syndrome, Warp, Curl, Broken Perfs, Trimmed Edges � almost anything!
As the Scanity utilizes a pinless film transport system, minimal perforation repairs are needed and we can even scan film that was never perforated.
DATA MIGRATION
One of our chief assets is our ability to handle difficult and unique file formats. Data Migration helps to keep this information accurate and accessible to our clients and their patrons. Whether you need a simple disc image, a directory dump, file conversion, reverse engineering of old databases, or conformance to BitCurator workflows, whether your goal is simple preservation or eDiscovery, we have the tools and staff to recover the bits. Delivery is via secure cloud server with end-to-end encryption or via media of your choice. Our data migration systems are �air gap� isolated, that is, not physically connected to a network.
Data migration services we provide:
- Tape Conversion � 9-track reels, 3480, 3490, 370, 3590, 9840, DLT, SDLT, AIT, LTO, 4mm, 8mm, Travan, QIC + others
- Disk Conversion � SyQuest, Bernoulli, ZIP, JAZ, Super-Disk, CD, DVD, WORK, Optical, Diskettes + others
- Mainframe File and Tape Conversion
Customer Service/Sales Contact Information
George Blood, President
[email protected]
215-248-2100
(All descriptions were written and submitted by the vendors. Not all vendor products and services are available under the FEDLINK contracts. For more information, contact FEDLINK for details.)
Last Updated: 01/02/2026
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