[QuadList] AVR-3s

[W4wj at aol.com]

Hi Bob...
 
Very interesting...
 
The AVR 3's were in the production area.  All network  news stories were 
put across to the production ACR-25 for  playout.  Film stories remained on
A-B reels...
 
In the air area, an AVR-1 two AVR2's and the second  ACR-25 handled
those duties.  Production VTR's could be called across to  air if needed. 
 
During the AVR-3 ramp up with the field engineers, I did see  some two
inch tape get "snapped" in half when one of the 3's would do a  
fast-forward and rewind simultaneously!!!  ;-)   Fun stuff!!  That problem was solved!!
 
DonM
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/25/2009 12:40:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
rabruner at aol.com writes:


WTVJ bought 5 of the AVR-3's when they first came  out.
  <snip>
 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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