[QuadList] Blanking Issues

[georgenann at aol.com]

Years ago PBS sent their entire crew to (I think) VPR school and had no maint guys.  They called my shop and asked if anyone would want to fill in in the evenings for that period of time.  I took the first evening, then since nobody was interested the second evening, and so on for the whole 2 weeks.  I recall their quad area had a "Smell" to it like someone became ill and nobody bothered to clean it up.  Fortunately I didn't have to spend much time in that area. It was when PBS was in the theatre on 9th around 55th St.

George Keller






-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Goldberg <lgoldber1947 at gmail.com>
To: QuadList <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Sat, Feb 6, 2010 11:59 am
Subject: [QuadList] Blanking Issues


My supervisor contacted PBS and told them that both the VTR and the person doing the evaluating needed "tweaking".
Eventually PBS re-evaluated the tape on a better machine and the show was accepted.



On Feb 1, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Louis Goldberg wrote:

> One of my favorite blanking stories showed up on a PBS technical  
> evaluation sheet.  The person who did the evaluation wrote that the  

 blanking was OK on demod, but wide on output and he rejected our tape.
>
> Gee, doesn't that mean that their machine was misadjusted on output?

What'd you do?  Resubmit?  Point out that the deck was in need of  

weaking?

Ted


Ted Langdell
Secretary


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