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From: Michael A. Terrell on 12 Oct 2009 00:06 stratus46(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > On Oct 10, 11:14 pm, "Michael A. Terrell" <mike.terr...(a)earthlink.net> > wrote: > > stratu...(a)yahoo.com wrote: > > > > > On Oct 9, 11:38 pm, Greegor <greego...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Beta sucked. I preferred U-matic or 1" broadcast video tape. No > > > > > surprise that you chose the losing format. > > > > > > You preferred an analog format to a digital format? > > > > You must have REALLY loved open reel video tape then! > > > > > > In what capacity were you exposed to these? > > > > > I believe Michael was trying to stay in the same general time frame by > > > mentioning U-Mats and 1" C. Digital machines came a few years later. > > > > > Today I was working on a 1" C machine, earlier this week an AVR-1 quad > > > machine and a Beta SP. There are still some dinosaurs. > > > > The old 2" Ampex machines had a decent video quality for an all > > analog format, but a 1" VTR with a good TBC was excellent. I had three, > > with TBCs and a good editing system at WACX in Orlando. Used with the > > RCA TK-46 cameras, the in house video quality was better than what I've > > seen of OTA HD. Of course, I was watching it on a $7,000 monitor with > > the original triangular RGB CRT. All the other color monitors were > > trinitron CRTS, and didn't have the same quality of video. By the time > > it was sent to the transmitter on a 7 GHz microwave STL and transmitted > > to crappy consumer TVs, most of the quality was lost. > > > > -- > > The movie 'Deliverance' isn't a documentary! > > Then you might have enjoyed the AVR-3 which was still a quad but with > a digital TBC. Put it in Super High Band Pilot and have zero velocity > error as 1.5 SC is recorded with the video - analog equivalent of > digital clock. The place with the AVR-1s gave away the AVR-3s last > Christmas - before I worked there. 2 weeks ago my boss asked if we > could play a Super High Band Pilot tape and I told him they gave away > the machines. I left the industry about 20 years ago, so I missed a lot of the interesting equipment. :( I did get to use the Vital Industries Squeeze Zoom, and video switcher. It was one of the first digital Special Effects systems built in the '80s. :) The only commercial Video Tape equipment I worked with were '60s vintage Ampex 2" at Ft Rucker, Alabama. They were being replaced by the Sony/tektronics U-matics in 1973. I only had 16 mm film and 35 mm slide projectors at the AFRTS/AFRN/AFN station at Ft Greely Alaska. it was probably the last B&W only station in the US. Sony U-matic (In a LaCart automation system) and 1" Sony were used at WIYE/WACX in Orlando. -- The movie 'Deliverance' isn't a documentary!
From: Greegor on 12 Oct 2009 10:26 MT > Beta sucked. I preferred U-matic or 1" broadcast video tape. No MT > surprise that you chose the losing format. G > You preferred an analog format to a digital format? G > You must have REALLY loved open reel video tape then! G > G > In what capacity were you exposed to these? MT > I was a TV broadcast engineer. When I started, a VTR still used 2" MT > tape. U-matic was just showing up at the US Army bases for their ETV MT > systems. It had a tektronix nameplate, but was built by Sony. There MT > was no digital storage at that time, so your comment is moot. Did you buy a Blue Ray player? LOL Does it make you pine for the Pioneer Laser Disk player?
From: Michael A. Terrell on 12 Oct 2009 15:13
Greegor wrote: > > MT > Beta sucked. I preferred U-matic or 1" broadcast video tape. No > MT > surprise that you chose the losing format. > > G > You preferred an analog format to a digital format? > G > You must have REALLY loved open reel video tape then! > G > > G > In what capacity were you exposed to these? > > MT > I was a TV broadcast engineer. When I started, a VTR still > used 2" > MT > tape. U-matic was just showing up at the US Army bases for their > ETV > MT > systems. It had a tektronix nameplate, but was built by Sony. > There > MT > was no digital storage at that time, so your comment is moot. > > Did you buy a Blue Ray player? LOL No. Why should I? > Does it make you pine for the Pioneer Laser Disk player? No. Does anyone need a demo disk? -- The movie 'Deliverance' isn't a documentary! |