[QuadList] VR-1000's at NBC

[dcfwtx at aol.com]

Ted,


On the "Saving Cyd Charise" presentation at the AMIA at St. Louis last month, the picture showed on the Keynote Presentation was of nine VR 1000's with RCA labs augmentation. This was in 1959. It is not known when the ninth machine was added. I  may know next month when interviews continue.


Merry Christmas from Calinog, Iloilo (it's Christmas Eve. here!).


David
www.dcvideo.com



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From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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On Dec 23, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Chill315 at aol.com wrote:


Douglas Edwards was on CBS not NBC.  Wrong network.  Besides it did not have the RCA label on it so NBC could not buy it.
 
Chris Hill
WA8IGN



NBC bought three VR-1000's at or after the demos at the 1956 NAB.


Two were put to use at NBC Burbank, and the third ended up at RCA Labs in NJ, where it was taken apart, and RCA's people developed circuitry to record and recover color... the low-band, non-standard "RCA Labs Color" referred to in threads here and on the website:


http://quadvideotapegroup.com/TRT-1C-at-NBC.htm
and 
http://www.quadvideotapegroup.com/EiesnhowerQuadRestoration.htm




David Crosthwait has photos on DC Video.com of the NBC Burbank tape room in the late 50's showing a plethora (Eight, if I recall correctly) VR-1000's that did the bulk of the time-zone delay, and were THE machines in place before RCA got its TRT-1's into production.


You'll have to wait while the photos on David's site cycle through... but it's worth the wait.


Ted




 

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