[QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day

[W4wj at aol.com]

We had a shoot out at WTVJ between the Odetics Tower machine  and a very 
large Sony X-Y system.  We had them
on either side of the tape room.
 
The Sony cassette grabbing mechanism was an  unbelievably
complicated device.  That complication turned us  away
from the Sony X-Y.  We bought an Odetics double tower  system, and later 
added the Odetics X-Y machine.
 
These replaced 3 ACR-25s.  The first ACR-25 was  serial 
number 21. 
 
Don Murray, W4WJ
Retired from 40 years of Miami Television Engineering 
35+ years at NBC O&O WTVJ
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/1/2011 4:32:25 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
garyada at ix.netcom.com writes:

 
Yes  it was called Silverlake.  It was made by Odetics with and for RCA.   
Several of the product group from RCA left for Odetics to continue the 
product  which had several generations of kit and was quite successful.  They  
ultimately interfaced with just about any modern cassette type decks including 
 the Tektronix Profile disk recorder.  I think some are still in use and  
are still service by a  couple of former Odetics Engineers.  I  worked for 
them a short while and still keep in touch with some of them.  In early 
systems, the decks had to be modified, but later systems did  not require any deck 
modifications.  This made it really appealing since  you could choose your 
format and deck and still have the automation from  Odetics.   Gary 
 
 
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the  Day

Of  course there was RCA's Silverlake (?) Beta spot playback system, which 
was  introduced but never made, and which was ultimately marketed by its  
manufacturer Odetics.  But that was a Sony Beta system, not  quad. 
Steve  Walton 
  
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Subject: [QuadList]  Jeporady Question of the Day 
 
As we  know, many products are introduced and never make it to market.  One 
 example is the VR-8000 that was a 2 inch helical machine that looked like 
an  VR-1100 with a new transport.  Literature was distributed and catalog  
sheets were produced.
 

 
So  the question is 
 

 
"What  RCA Quad Machine was introduced but never was sold?   
 

 
Chris  Hill
 
WA8IGN



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