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

[Ted Langdell]

He might be close to my heart and home.

He's Grass Valley's Chief Technology Officer, and if he works in  
Nevada City, is a left turn out the driveway and a half-hour east of me.

His LinkedIn profile advises:

Field Service Engineer/Systems Engineer/ Product Manager
RCA Broadcast
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Broadcast Media industry
August 1980 – August 1985 (5 years 1 month)

Initially employed in Sunbury-on-Thames, RCA's UK headquaters as field  
engineer working in the EAME area. Experience included TCR and 2"  
Quadruplex manntenance. Worked extensively in Camden New Jersey on  
"debugging" the production line for launch of the TR800 1" C format VTR.

Later transferred to the US as Systems Engineer. Further work in the  
field supporting initial shipment of the systems including a role in  
delivering field-based customer training clases.

Also involved in the launch of Hawkeye - the world's first CCD  
camcorder and the attendant MI VTR systems that it used.

Finally worked in a product management role to develop the next  
generation of spot playback systems to replace the TCR100.

At that point he jumped to Sony and helped intro the BetaCart.

Ted


On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:06 PM, Don Norwood wrote:

> 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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Ted Langdell
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