[QuadList] universal colortec (was why buy Quad)

[Bill Carpenter]

Very well stated Don,

I came into the broadcast marketplace in the last days of the 1200's, in fact I was the last product manager. Then in early 1974, in Huston, Texas I introduced the AVR-2 to the broadcast world. 

By today's std's I believe that the AVR-2 is the only machine for Shari to by for this task.

The training curve to making good/great pictures alone is reason enough to use the AVR-2

The DTBC was purpose built into this machine.

The servo system wants to lock up on most any Quad tape and deliver a signal good enough for the DTBC, with a little help from the AutoChroma to make very good pictures. And it does all this with no adjustments required.

I think the best endorsment for the AVR-2 was given by a competive salesman (RCA) when an all RCA, southern TV station used a demo AVR-2 for a week and was going to buy three AVR-2's. 
The good old Chief Engineer reasoned with the RCA salesman, and said that the AVR-2 would playback any tape that he put on it with no problems or adjustments.

The RCA salesmans response was " well if you really need a machine that will play any tape, buy one AVR-2, but, buy two  TR-600's form me cause they are cheaper"

I rest my case, and if you have any other concerns I will close with this comment. 
When the major strike happened at ABC in LA in the early 70's, the biggest video problem was that every control on the Intersync Servos, on every 1200 and 2000 was twisted to one end or the other by the tape operators before they went on strike.
Most of the Supervisors had forgotten how to set them up, so there were many calls to Ampex Tech Support, and some frantic Faxing of set up guides.

They never did solve the audio problems, since the audio folks just pulled ALL the patch cables out of the patch bay and dropped them on the floor.

I learned all this from Len Bottom who was then in charge of all remote operations (trucks) out of LA.

Bye for now,  Bill Carpenter

--- On Thu, 4/28/11, Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com> wrote:

From: Don Norwood <dwnorwood at embarqmail.com>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] universal colortec (was why buy Quad)
To: "Quad List" <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 3:56 PM

Shai:

The problem is that the TBC must be designed for segmented scan.  VERY FEW ever were, and I'm not aware that any on the market today or in recent years will work for anything other than non-segmented (helical) scan.

Don Norwood
Digitrak Communications, Inc.
www.digitrakcom.com

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shai Drori" <srdbx at netvision.net.il>
To: <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [QuadList] universal colortec (was why buy Quad)


> Getting a 1200B that is NTSC and 525/625 is one thing. The problem is the Universal colortec. I suggested to Tim that it might be possible to use the regular TBC for NTSC and replace it with an external TBC like Kramer for PAL. He was willing to try it if I hop over the Pond with a tape. If that is possible it makes for one step to be a bit easier. This would make a good multi standard machine.
> Shai
> 
> On 29/04/2011 00:38, quadlist-request at quadvideotapegroup.com wrote:
>> The Universal Colortec is used in a PAL machine.  Does anyone know if  it
>> were possible to be used with NTSC?  I do not have any information on this.
>> 
>> If not, you can take the Demodulator out and feed an external TBC for NTSC
>> playbacks.
>> 
>> All together, because you want to do both NTSC and PAL, I would go with the
>>   VR-1200 B series.  That is my choice but there are many view on the issue.
>> 
> 
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