[QuadList] AVR-3s

[rabruner at aol.com]

WTVJ bought 5 of the AVR-3's when they first came  out.
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He picked the 3 that he liked best, wrote down all the  pertinent serial 
numbers and details and thanked me for my  time!!
 
Don Murray
Retired from 40 years in Miami Television
35+years at WTVJ NBC O&O
 
 I worked at WGN for several years and they had some AVR-3s, used mostly for production.
They used VR-2000Bs for direct playback to air, along with 3 TCR-100s.  The AVRs usually
worked well, and made great pictures. They would use the quick roll feature during newscasts.
They would build a dub real and then use the five event editor to put a cue before each
story on the reel so they could randomly search to them quickly.  Every once in a while
when given the button push to go to the next cut, or whatever, the AVR would go nuts and 
spin the reels counter to each other and throw tape all the way to the ceiling. It was 
a problem neither they nor Ampex ever solved. That particular AVR was referred to by the
operators as "Killer."



Bob Bruner
WTTW/Chicago
 

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