[QuadList] What Would a Newly Designed Quad VTR Do and Have? Reply by 6/15/2012- (Was Ampex Quad VTR Airflow Requirements)

[lee williams]

If somebody was going to redesign a new Quad (2") machine then I would recommend that they borrow some of the latest technology used in film and create a 2" tape scanner. 
 
Create a 2" wide fixed magnetic head that would pick up the raw magnetic image directly off the tape and store it as a set of digital strings. 
 
Now all you need to do is write a program that can recognize and re-assemble the different signatures of the formats and spit out a video image. 
 
RCA, AMPEX, IVC, BOSCH, NASA, all could be reduced to a algorithm and loss of control track or superficial tape damage could be overlooked. 
 
It would in effect become the universal translator of 2" with no moving head parts to wear out. 
 
 
 
 


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From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
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Subject: Re: [QuadList] What Would a Newly Designed Quad VTR Do and Have? Reply by 6/15/2012- (Was Ampex Quad VTR Airflow Requirements)


On Jun 2, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Don Norwood wrote:

I can remember some spirited debates back "in the day" over the virtues of one machine or another.  I always thought that both RCA and Ampex had their strong and weak points, and taking the best of both would have made an interesting machine.  To some extent, that's what happened in the later models.

There is sometimes talk about building a "New" Quad VTR.  

What would the end user want to have the machine do, particularly as mass migration and metadata collection about tape condition and content become more "foreground" in content preservation efforts.  

What "wish list" items would modern technology enable?

Fill in here.  We'll tabulate the results and post to the list.

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