[QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--RCA TH's and TR's

[Don Norwood]

>From info that I have (aside from getting the model number wrong), one person heavily involved in the TR-800 project was Ray Baldock who later worked for Sony on the Betacart systems and has now been at Tek/GVG/Thomson/GV/?? for many years, so some of you may know him.

Don
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Crosthwait 


  Yes, I remember the TR 800 well. They were like nothing else at the time. No Sony copycats on that machine. It was all apparently built from the ground up, just too late and too problematic.  Microprocessor controlled and ran like a bat out of hell (even when they were not suppose to take off during sports slo-mo cue up). In the early 80's while working for NBC (owned at that time by RCA), we were hearing rumors that this machine had scanner bearing problems and was being held up till that was resolved. The first TR 800's I saw were in the QV remote truck. But the problems with reliability were so bad that RCA assigned an engineer during one remote in Vegas who did nothing but sit by the VTR door and waited for one of us to yell "help, we have a runaway!". The director and producers were not amused. Needless to say, the next time we used that truck, the TR 800's were gone and replaced by BVH 2000's. 

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