[QuadList] VTR introduction anniversaries: 1965

[Don Norwood]

Hi Ted:

The VU meter on the TR-22 can be confusing.  It did start out as you mentioned, located in the audio monitor area.  However, by the time of the TR-22D in '66, it had changed to an edgewise meter just above the transport, the same arrangement as the TR-70. I don't know when it made the transition.

I think maybe one reliable clue that you can usually pick out is the row of rectangular pushbutton switches immediately below the video monitor on a TR-70.  They are noticeably different from the round buttons on the 22.  There are lots of other visual identifiers if a pic is large enough to  see them.  The left and right control areas are different, and of course if you can see the electronic bays, they are different, but without knowing the particulars of each, the controls below the monitor may be the easiest thing to spot.

Don
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Ted Langdell 


  Although it was a year behind Ampex introducing High Band recorders, RCA debuted its TR-70 High Band, which ran $82,500.  
  It was pitched as the "first fully integrated TV tape recording system for high-band color recording and playback." 

  It also showed a High Band update for the similar looking solid state TR-22, introduced in 1961.
  The 1966 TR-22HB was $72,000.  For ID purposes, the TR-22 had a VU meter in the speaker area on the upper right side of the machine, while the TR-70 did not.
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