[QuadList] What's your Betacam flavor?

[Grace McKay]

A nice thing about some Digibetas-DVW 500 and A500, is the error 
correction. We have had some really poor tapes that would play with 
errors/dropouts in the UVW-1800 but in the A500 played cleanly through 
the errors. It was like Magic! Some other models may have this but I am 
not sure which. My guess is that the J series does not. The SX deck--is 
it A75? -- may have this feature. Anyone know for sure?

Grace McKay



On 5/31/2011 6:18 AM, bill.spencer at northstarstudios.tv wrote:
> Shai,
>
> If you are only concerned with playback, I would get a DVW-510A.  They
> are under 5k now and would give you SP and D-beta playback plus digital
> outputs.  If you could afford a little more there is the full size of
> the J series that will play SP, SX, IMX, and D-beta.  I think its'
> designation is MVW-2000.  Check with Isfar and they will give you a good
> deal.
>
> Bill Spencer
> NorthStar Studios, Inc.
> 3201 Dickerson Pike
> Nashville, TN 37207
> (615) 650-6610
> CP (615) 445-5616
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com
> [mailto:quadlist-bounces at quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Shai Drori
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 4:32 AM
> To: Association of Moving Image Archivists;
> quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com
> Subject: [QuadList] What's your Betacam flavor?
>
> Please excuse the cross posting.
> A while ago I was faced with an upgrade issue to my betacam SP station.
> One of my clients claimed he only transfers tape on BVW series vtr's. He
>
> also refused to here about the J series claiming they were inferior. At
> the same conversation he also suggested I look into the Samma robot (he
> loves price tags). I didn't see the point of explaining to him that
> Samma works with J series, from my experience it's best to shut up. When
>
> I spoke to Sony service in NY, the guy on the other side of the phone
> made the following comments:
> 1. The BVW is aging and if it is an Ebay unit it might have poor quality
>
> playback.
> 2. Assuming we are looking for a cheap vtr in good condition the UVW
> might perform better since it is younger and it's caps are in better
> shape. Still, a serviced BVW will be better.
> 3. A better alternative would be an SX deck. It is younger still,
> usually has less head hours, and by design has excellent picture
> quality.
>
> So my question is this:
> Assuming we and looking for a cheap (~5K$US) yet excellent picture
> quality playback vtr, what would you choose and Why? Multi format decks
> can be included in this brain pick.
> Cheers
> Shai Drori
>
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