[QuadList] Brian's question about quad TBCs

[Tim Stoffel]

On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 22:23 -0500, Don Norwood wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Brian Hoover 
>         Subject: Re: [QuadList] Gene Kelley Show color recording
>         system
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>                 Huh?
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>                 Quad video playback is about the most time-base stable
>                  off-tape video you will ever 
>                 come across. That's why the first analog time base correctors for quad only had 
>                 a window of 2 microseconds. Any time base corrector should be able to play back 
>                 quad video just fine.
>                 
>                 Brian 

Yes, but the timebase errors repeat at an odd interval and some of them are
rather abrupt. External TBC's I have seen for quad require a headswitch signal
so the TBC knows when these abrupt transitions are happening.

Tim Stoffel