[QuadList] Quad tapes restoration in Brazil

Wed Aug 6 14:54:46 CDT 2014

Hi Joav,

I don't know exactly why PAL-M was adopted, but you can find more details about this history below.

"In 1972, with the regulation of PAL-M system in Brazil, was officially the first broadcast in color in Brazil, from Caxias do Sul, RS, during the Grape Festival, on February 19th."
You can find this text and more details about Brazilian Television history at:
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist%C3%B3ria_da_televis%C3%A3o_no_Brasil     (translated by Google<https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pt&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=pt-BR&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpt.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTelevis%25C3%25A3o_no_Brasil&edit-text=>)

The B&W TV system used until that time was 525 lines, 30fps (60Hz) (system M), the power grid was also changing from 50Hz to 60Hz.
A Brazilian committee was formed to choose the new system of color TV at the time were analyzed all color TV standards, NTSC, PAL and Secam. TV broadcasters and equipment manufacturers were visited around the world, sought a system of colored TV that was compatible with black and white TV already in use by Brazilian viewers. I knew and worked with one person engaged in this committee, Mr. Claudio Luis D'Avila - former Technical Director of RBS TV Network.

Best regards,

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From: Joav Shdema <joav at dbdigital.co.il<mailto:joav at dbdigital.co.il>>
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 at 14:57
To: Adair Comarú <adair.comaru at tvc.com.br<mailto:adair.comaru at tvc.com.br>>, Quad List <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] Quad tapes restoration in Brazil

Great read.
My friend, Carlos de Andrade, is deeply involved with restoration in Brazil. PAL-M is an interesting format. I wonder why Brazil had to adopt their own format and didn't go with just NTSC or PAL (aka Pao-M)
Good luck

Joav Shdema
Managing Partner
DB Digital, archiving concepts
Audio-Video-Film Restoration
www.dbdigital.co.il<http://www.dbdigital.co.il>

On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Adair Garcia Comaru via QuadList <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>> wrote:

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Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 21:46:41 -0300
Subject: Quad tapes restoration in Brazil
Hi everyone,

Here at Sao Paulo  Brazil, has a public broadcast television station
called TV Cultura, they are running a amazing job of restoration. With two
RCA TR70 fully operational plus a rewind unit, they are digitizing from
Quad 2", 1", Betacam and U-Matic tapes
 (mainly Pal-M) to Quicktime mov archives and then to LTO backup tapes, at
total around 130,000 hours of programs, it is an epic job for generations
to come. They "un-retired" some old engineers in order to teach new ones
and does this job. Unfortunately these
 old videos are available only by order, not free at web.

TV Cultura YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/cultura
MAM System by "Media Portal":
http://www.mediaportal.com.br/noticias/tv-cultura-salto-tempo

Best regard,

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