[QuadList] History - what is the REAL story

[Don Norwood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. Park Seward" <park at videopark.com>

>Don,
>
>Thanks for your great email. Yes, stories sometimes take on a life of
>their own after 50 years.
>
>Interesting that the color quad standard was not the RCA one but the
>one developed by Ampex. I guess it was the development of the Colortec
>that enabled color.

Just to be clear, your statement above is correct for High-Band color, and 
what Colortec enabled was direct recovery.  That all showed up in '64 with 
the introduction of the VR-2000,

Don