[QuadList] SCETV 1-inch Consoles (Was Videotape of CBS Kennedy assassination)

[Ted Langdell]

In a Creative Cow post: Re: broadcast tape standards, Del Holford of  
Charlotte Public Television wrote on Apr 2, 2008:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/21/857255

"Just to stir the pot a little, South Carolina ETV still has at least  
one and possibly two of every format forbroadcast. I'm not sure the  
VO-2850 would be considered broadcast but we have a working BVU-800 in  
our racks (VT13). SCETV still has working quad machines! They  
occasionally make dubs for us (just across the line in NC) and I've  
put other PBS members on to them. The reason they have the machines is  
because the state legislature requires they be able to play everything  
in their archive library, and that goes back a ways. It's been rumored  
they've had to machine some of their own replacement parts."

Further down in the thread, Del responds to a somewhat tongue in cheek  
reply from Bob Zelin about PBS's current standards, which dropped 1",  
and a raft of other formats from the list of what PBS accepts:

"I just make sure my signals for SD are what I learned when I was  
operating the TR-70C: that cameras match, that black levels aren't  
crushed and white levels are hard clipped at 105. The color correctors  
built into smoke and fire are awesome and we actually use the waveform  
monitors in the edit suites. "

The last post in the thread is from a Quad collector in Green Bay, WI.

We're letting them know about the group, and trying to find out more  
about SCETV's Quads from Hap Griffin, the VP of Engineering. He's been  
there 1978 and should know something... :)

Ted

On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Dennis Degan wrote:

>
> 		On Jul 20, 2009, at 9:15 PM, Sammy Jones wrote:
>
> > On a side note, I recently got to witness a quad machine in action  
> for the first time!  It was a later model Ampex (sorry don't know  
> enough about them to know which one; a model number wasn't evident  
> on the machine) at South Carolina Educational TV.  What a thrill to  
> see a tape threaded and played back on that beast!
>
> 		I offer:
>
> 	In the mid 70's, I worked at WIS-TV in Columbia, SC not far from  
> SCETV's network operations center (the old one).  At that time,  
> SCETV had a couple of AVR-1's.  Sammy, what year did you see those  
> quads in action?
> 	The last time I was there in 1979, in addition to the AVR-1's, they  
> had a bunch of upright consoles which housed 1-inch VTR's.  I've  
> never seen that type of machine since.  The memory is dim; I don't  
> know who made those 1-inch VTR's.  I'm sure that they were not RCA,  
> but they could have been made by either Ampex or Sony.  I'm also  
> pretty sure that they weren't VPR-3's (this was in 1979 so it was  
> too early for VPR-3's).  The consoles were wide, sort of like those  
> quad machines we saw a while ago here, mounted in an airplane for  
> the Army.  They might have been specially built consoles just for  
> SCETV, not sure.
>
> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 	  					NBC Today Show, New York
>
>
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Ted Langdell
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