[QuadList] RCA CAVEC vs Ampex

[Trevor]

Thanks Chili
I was not sure which came first but I know RCA had a better system with Line
by Line correction
Not often they were in the lead so I brought it up

Thanks for all the TEP pictures everyone, they took me back, making editors
without micro's and time code must have been a challenge  


Add me to the list of people who have used TEP in anger

TrevorB
UK member

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Subject: [QuadList] RCA CAVEC vs Ampex


RCA designed their system after Ampex.  As a result RCA used plug in cards
that would address each line of a head pass.  Thus they were able to do line
by line chroma correction.  If one looks at the Ampex design, it was
originally for the VR- 2000.  Then offered for the VR-1200 signal system.
In fact the upgrade kit for the -01 1200 signal system had to have a switch
and new overlay plate for the signal system.  All later signal systems had
been prewired to allow plug in of the modules.

The Ampex design did only an average of the 16 lines for each head.  as long
as you had the head correct from a height and penetration perspective,
chroma would not show tilt across the band.  Later machines did a line by
line correction.  

The advantage is for line by line correction unless there is a noise or
dropout during the burst.

Chris Hill
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