[QuadList] Quad Carts--Links to RCA and Ampex photo examples

[Scott Thomas]

Are you sure your not confusing MII with S-VHS?
MII Had some initial problems with tape formulations, but the quality was comparable to Betacam-SP.
When Letterman went MII, I remember seeing a lot of tape dropouts.

>From what I read in the past, I thought Carson had rejected MII outright, and never used it. (It was a long time ago though)

My brother was a promotion editor at WMC in Memphis where they had a mix of Beta and MII. He seemed rather impressed with the format. This was around 1994.

Scott Thomas


On Aug 20, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Ron Fleury <sngman4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Don't get me started on what a leap backwards the whole MII boondoggle was.  In local news we were trying to go 3/4" Sony SP which would have improved quality
> a lot.  Instead, we got what netted out to be VHS quality on-air.  The rest of the universe went Betacam.  Even NetNews refused to adopt it!
> From: David Crosthwait <david at dcvideo.com>
> To: Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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> Subject: Re: [QuadList] Quad Carts--Links to RCA and Ampex photo examples
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