[QuadList] TCR-100 EPIS

[Gary Adams]

Dennis is correct as usual.  "Electronic Program Identification System".
Was a fairly simple ID system.  While most customers considered it an
expensive and not necessary add on, I convinced many that it saved
incorrectly loaded spots several times.  While you can easily check the
carts loaded in the belt, you did not know which two were actually threaded
prior to a break.  A simple matter of looking at the log and visually seeing
what are the next two to run.  I would say it saved us the expense in make
goods assuming you consider make goods cost money. There was no easy method
of exporting this data but I don't doubt some smart techs did.  In the
latest models, a bar code was added to the carts that would interface to an
automation system.  This was part of the random access feature.  There were
not many of those in use.

Gary

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		I answer:

	That panel was an RCA option called "EPIS" (I forgot what the
letters  
stand for).  It was a simple (by today's standards) tape ID system.   
Carts would be recorded with EPIS info.  As a cart played (or even  
during pre-cue), the EPIS data was read.  The info could be sent to an  
automation system so that accurate on-air commercial data could be  
written to the as-aired log.
	I don't remember anything more about EPIS than what I've described  
and I probably got some of it wrong anyway.   ;)

			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
					     NBC Today Show, New York