[QuadList] Ampex Models

[David Crosthwait]

Denny,

Yes, I should have been more specific in my time frame reference to when the TCRs were used for Nightly News roll-ins. I was thinking more of the John Chancellor days when the TCR could be seen rolling and locking up in a monitor behind him. This could also be seen on Saturday Night Live when the camera was in the control room for some scenes in the first few years.

The 5 second roll was the same in Burbank. The TD hits the roll button, but the actual pulse hits the TCR remote at -2.

David





On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:33 PM, dennyd1 at verizon.net wrote:

> 
>           On Mar 1, 2011 11:39:19 AM, quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com wrote:
> 
> > On the NBC Network "Nightly News", the TCR-100 was used for roll-ins. Two second pre-roll was all you got then.
> 
>          I say:
> 
>     Perhaps you are right if you are referring to the time before the existence of the 4th Floor EJ.  But when I first came to NBC in 1978, TCRs were used ONLY for spot playback.  EJ playback originated from U-Matic BVU-200s in 1978.
>    Also, as I recall, though the TCR-100 cart machine itself was capable of 2-second pre-rolls, all the other quad VTRs in the tape area on the 5th floor (mostly RCA TR-70As and Bs) used 5-second prerolls.  Therefore, in order to avoid pre-roll errors, the TCRs at NBC New York had an additional 3-second delayed start function built into the machine control system which effectively made the TCRs' pre-roll 5 seconds, matching the pre-roll time of the other VTRs in the plant.
> 
>         Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
>                        NBC Today Show, New York
> 
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