[QuadList] RCA Color Tape

[John Walko]

Chris:

Forgive my ignorance, but why was it done this way?  I mean, wouldn't it
have made sense to record at full bandwidth and then playback at full
bandwidth rather than separating it from base band?

 

Did this have something to do with bandwidth limitations with NTSC
broadcast?

 

It never fails to amaze me how complex a piece of machinery a Quad videotape
machine is.  The guys who designed and built these machines were pretty
intelligent.to say the least.

 

Thanks;

 

John Walko

Media Archive Manager

Scene Savers

www.scenesavers.com

800-978-3445

 

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Subject: Re: [QuadList] RCA Color Tape

 

RCA used direct color for the recording.  Nothing was done to the signal.
It was recorded at full bandwidth to the tape.

 

The playback was where the interesting process took place.  The color was
separated from the base band.  Then in a heterodyne process, the color was
stabilized back to 3.58.  The jitter was removed and then the two were put
back together.  The result was a viewable signal but the color was no longer
locked to the video.  Thus it could not be mixed with another signal or much
of anything else.  This process worked without the servo being locked to
either vertical or horizontal.  That was a unique way to do it.

 

As a side point, if you ever wondered what the "Non Standard" position on
the Colortec was used for, it was used to play back a tape that was copied
from a machine that used the RCA method to stabilize the color.

 

Chris Hill



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