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

[Grace McKay]

It should also be progressive, and the output would be data at whatever 
resolution desired...

Grace McKay



On 6/3/2012 3:01 PM, lee williams wrote:
> 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>
> *To:* Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 3, 2012 11:04 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [QuadList] What Would a Newly Designed Quad VTR Do and 
> Have? Reply by 6/15/2012- (Was Ampex Quad VTR Airflow Requirements)
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> On Jun 2, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Don Norwood wrote:
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>> 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.
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> There is sometimes talk about building a "New" Quad VTR.
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> 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.
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> What "wish list" items would modern technology enable?
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> Ted Langdell
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