[QuadList] Grass Valley
David Crosthwait
david at dcvideo.com
Thu Jul 5 11:34:59 CDT 2012
Hello Randy,
I can presume that you were at GVG in '90? One of the most impressive trips I participated in was when the GVG sales rep. (Eloy Chairez) flew a group of us from Hollywood up there to see the GVG 3000 prototype for our evaluation. What a delight it was to see GVG abandoned the 200 layout and return to the 300 style of Emem. All of us breathed a sigh of relief! That tour resulted I believe in an immediate sale of 5 or 6 of those switchers and six channels of Kscope for the new facility being built in Burbank. When delivered, I did the testing of the system for the first edit session (perhaps in LA) using the GVG 3000 which was not fully functioning (no frame stores, not all keyers working etc. ) but enough to do what I needed to do for the client the next day (from CBS). All went well. A few years later, all 3K's (4fsc) were upgraded to 4K's (601).
The point of the above story is this: Grass Valley listened to the customer base and went the extra effort to involve us in their design. The result was many deliveries of great products. That trip alone probably was worth over a $1,000,000 sales ticket. As to whether outsourcing some of the manufacturing will change overall reliability and trust in their product, only time will tell I suppose.
These two guys were the ones who hosted us that rainy weekend (I cannot recall their names):
Part of the campus tour was seeing other customer orders in progress. I don't recall if any M/C switcher automation projects were geared towards ACR or TCR operation but there may have been some as stations were still operating around the country at that time with 2" quad carts.
Best Regards,
David Crosthwait
DC Video
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On Jul 5, 2012, at 6:20 AM, Randy Hall wrote:
> Hi
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> Gee I remember after the days that you mention and when it as the in- thing to focus on core competencies that operations like the pc fab and metal shops were either shut down or sold. The old GVG metal shop was sold to a group that has several locations and is still running and doing metal work for many of the GV video companies. Boards for a long time have been stuffed outside and over seas. Now the final assembly and test are going somewhere. We may learn more as the rumblings go around town.
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> It is interesting that they quote employment number from back a couple of years ago. Wonder what it really is today. I was there 76-98 and it was wonderful.
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> Randy
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> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Pat McGowan <pmcgowan at ncpvideo.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that Mike Dant and Louie Swift (long ago midwest GVG Sales Rep who tried to hire me in the 70's to be a GVG Rep) are spinning in their graves.
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> Remember taking the factory tour 35 years ago with Tom Sleeman and seeing all the 1600's move down the line and into final test. It was magic.
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> If an "outsource" builds and tests can it really carry a "Made by Grass Vally" tag? Very sad.
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> Oh my. I haven't heard any rumblings.
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