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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:21:18 +0100, Fons Adriaensen

wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 06:44:31AM -0800, Len Ovens wrote:

quoted text
>

>> Our on air was 2" machines. 5 of them. A very busy place during

>> commercial

>> breaks.

>

> Know that :-) We had Ampexes on-air, and RCAs in the editing suites.

> Those

> were really lovely machines. All moving parts were controlled by

> pneumatic

> actuators, it was phssst, pfff, pssssst all the time while editing. Below

> the actual tape deck there was something like a cubic meter of

> electronics.

> For slow motion playback (mainly used for soccer) there was an analog

> hard

> disk recorder. The disk was around 40cm diameter and the whole thing was

> packaged in a glass case, you could see the heads moving.

>

>> And the frame which is actually two vertical scans... at least over here

>> in NTSC land. (NTSC = Never Twice the Same Colour)

>

> Twice that (8 fields, 4 frames) for PAL...

>

> Ciao,

Old school:
Me in 1984 on a Bosch with manually zoom

http://picpaste.de/avmz_001.jpg
Editing room and noisy vtr room with Bosch (? inches) vtrs, IIRC the big

boxes on top were the SMPTE thingies.

http://picpaste.de/avmz_002-igH5hjqP.jpg
:D
Regards,

Ralf
The pics expire in a week.

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