[QuadList] Free NAB Registration--Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB--12:30pm on Tuesday, April 14, 2015--

Wed Apr 1 12:59:10 CDT 2015

Hi

Now that I am retired, I will be vacationing at NAB.

 I hope to meet up with the quad gang. I had fun meeting you all at lunch a
couple of years ago.

Randy, K7AGE

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 11:10 PM, Ted Langdell via QuadList <
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:

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> From: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> To: Quad List <QuadList at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Cc: Ted Langdell <ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:10:10 -0700
> Subject: Free NAB Registration--Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch
> at NAB--12:30pm on Tuesday, April 14, 2015--
> Greetings, as NAB rushes closer.
>
> *Free NAB exhibit passes go away this Friday (March 27). *
>
> If you are going but haven't registered, please...
>
>
> *Click here for **Free exhibit registration*
> <http://registration.experientevent.com/ShowNAB151/default.aspx?Passcode=LV3545>
>  with Guest Pass Code: LV3545 from flashscan8.us/MWA/ZinVTR Works.
>
>
> A bit of news:
>
> We've had five new QuadList members subscribe since our last major update
> of members earlier this year.
>
>
> *For their benefit and as a reminder to others attending NAB:*
>
>
> Spring has sprung (hopefully not in a VTR),
> The Grass has riz (but we hope not too much above black on the scope)
> I wonder where the QuadLunch is?
>
> *Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB: *
>
>
> *12:30pm on Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Las Vegas Convention Center*
>
> *I'll be announcing the specific location late next week.*
>
> Location and map link will be posted in several places:
>
> Here on the QuadList
>
>
> As a page on www.QuadVideotapeGroup.com and
>
>
> On our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/QuadVideotapeGroup
>
>
> *Of interest: *
>
> *The Museum of Broadcast Technology (MBT)*
>
>
> *MBT will be in a different location for NAB 2015*.  The booth will be
> outside the main doors to NORTH Hall, next to the American Radio Relay
> League (ARRL) booth.
>
> MBT expects to have a Sony BVH-500 1" Type C portable machine pulling
> tape, in addition to vintage cameras, monitors and other museum items from
> the two-story former bank that's packed with cameras, video recorders and
> terminal gear.
>
> Open by appointment, the museum is in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, a
> relatively short detour from the NYC to Boston Interstate.  See more at
> http://www.wmbt.org/
>
>
>
>
> *Quad VTR in Lower South Hall:*
>
>
> It is likely that a highly refurbished (aka ZinFurbished) Ampex AVR-2 will
> be on the floor in the flashscan8.us/MWA/Zin booth, Lower South
> Hall Booth SL14813
> <http://nab15.mapyourshow.com/6_0/floorplan_link.cfm?show_id=nab15&alt_entry=true&curr_pri=facility&booth=SL14813&exhid=992>
> .
>
> Ken Zin and Terry Smith are working at 30ips to install some cool
> technology applications that will make this machine do stuff it didn't do
> in 1974.
>
> That's when QuadList member Bill Carpenter and other Ampexers rolled the
> debut models onto the NAB floor in Houston, Texas prior to the NAB 1974
> opening March 18, 41 years ago...
>
> Please wish Ken and Terry luck, pray, send good thoughts, positive energy
> and/or other help as they do what many engineers have done for years with
> shipping deadlines looming.  Work long hours and get less than usual rest.
> They're also 41 years older so it's not as easy to do.
>
>
> *NAB 41 years ago *
>
> *As cataloged in the pages of Broadcast Engineering
> <http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineering/BE/70s/BE-1974-05.pdf%0A> and
> preserved on David Gleason's American Radio History.com
> <http://www.AmericanRadioHistory.com> website:*
>
>
> More than 150 manufacturers occupied 69,000 square feet of Houston exhibit
> space, bringing equipment worth $100million.
>
> Pres. Richard Nixon attended NAB and held a live, televised news
> conference on Tuesday, March 19, 1974. A part of his "super availablity"
> format intended to improve relations with "the press," the access to Nixon
> enabled Q and A by a variety of reporters.
>
> Portable Electronic News Gathering  (ENG) or Electronic Journalism (EJ in
> NBC-speak) cameras (and recorders) were a big draw, and were profiled in a
> special section of BE, beginning on Page 44.
>
> Kodak showcased Super-8 film cameras processors and transfer units as an
> alternative news gathering tool.
>
> The Quad/Helical "battle" picked up on page 46... but there was a battle
> between Quad giants Ampex and RCA as profiled on Page 48.
>
> Ampex AVR-2 prices ranged from $69,000 to $92,000 depending on options.
> See blurb and "reply card" item on Page 73.
>
> RCA's "compact" entry, the TR-600 ranged from $70,500 to "the high rent
> district in a hurry" if all the bells and whistles were added.
>
> Ampex and RCA showed their full range of Quads, including the Ampex
> VR-3000 backpack portable and AVR-1 mastering machine, the RCA TR-70
>
> CMX had RCA TR-70 and Ampex AVR-1 Quads in its booth. (Page 35)
>
> An International Video Corp. (IVC) employee is pictured inspecting the
> innards of an Ampex AVR-2 (page 18).
>
> IVC introduced the IVC-9000 2" Helical recorder (two of which are at the
> MBT) and the IVC-7000 three Plumbicon camera. See camera details on P. 74
>  The IVC-9000 was in "the $80,000 bracket"  well-equipped with all the
> color correctors. Head warranty was 1,500 hours.
>
> Videomax (then a subsidiary of Orrox Corp of CMX fame) refurbished RCA
> Quad  head assemblies for $890 with a 200 hour warranty. A paragraph on
> Page 48 reports Videomax claimed a 500 hour warranty, three times that of
> RCA or Ampex.
>
> Recortec, Inc. pitched its Videotape Conditioners and Evaluators.
>
> TBCs and Editors were "must see" for many attendees.
>
> The late engineer and editor designer Jack Calaway, then VP of Engineering
> at Trans-American Video (TAV) is quoted as saying he couldn't tell the
> difference between a live television signal and one recorded and played
> from Memorex Chroma 90 2" video tape. (Inside cover ad)
>
> Stereo phase shift and correcting it for monaural listeners was the topic
> of a presentation by Visual Electronics' Ron Eigenman for colleague Ronald
> S. DeBry.
>
> Chyron was then spelled Chiron, displaying its Graphics II and Mark III
> titler.
>
> CBS Laboratories advertised its CLD-1200 digital Calibration Test
> Generator for testing color television equipment.
>
> And Howard W. Sams advertised Harold Ennes "Television Broadcasting: Tape
> and Disc Recording Systems" for $14.95, Harry Kybett's "Video Tape
> Recorders" for $8.95, and Dr. Howard Tremaine's "Audio Cyclopedia, 2nd
> Edition" (all 1,760 pages) for $29.95.
>
> *Today, Amazon lists the 1969 AudioCyclopedia edition with prices ranging
> from $100 for one of the 18 used books and from  $411.48 for one of four
> NEW ones.*
>
>
> Was one of my favorite books at the library.
>
> *Broadcasting Magazine's take on VTRs at NAB 1974 begins on Page 65 of the
> March 25 Issue:*
>
> *http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1974/1974-03-25-BC.pdf
> <http://americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1974/1974-03-25-BC.pdf>*
>
> Broadcasting notes the appearance in RCA's booth of a "TR-700" half-speed
> Quad,  with "virtually no sacrifice in performance level," according to RCA
> sources quoted.
>
> (Reading between the lines, it appears the TR-700 is a modified TR-70C.)
>  RCA called the TR-70C "our answer to helical scan."
>
> RCA also said 7.5 IPS operation was one part of the "Quad 1A format" it
> plans to propose to to the industry" when it finishes developing the format.
>
> Ampex's three AVR-2 units were the first production models off the line,
> and they were purchased at the show and shipped to the buyer off the floor.
> (See item below).
>
> Broadcasting dubbed the AVR-2 "the mod quad" due to the modular design.
>
> It notes that the Ampex VPR-7950A with built in TBC had a $31,480 base
> price, about half that of a Quad.
>
>
> *After NAB 1974,* an item on Page 25 of the San Mateo Times from Tuesday,
> May 14, 1974 reported:
>
> *Ampex at Grand Ole Opry*
>
> WSM, Inc., of Nashville, Tenn. is the first user of the new AVR-2 modular
> design studio color videotape recorder / reproducer, Ampex Corp, of Redwood
> City has announced.
>
> Charles A. Steinberg, vice president-general manager of the Ampex
> audio-video systems division, said the AVR-2 is operating in a mobile
> studio, part of the production facilities at WSM's Opryland, U.S.A., home
> of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
>
> Aaron Shelton, WSM director of engineering, said the Ampex AVR-2 was first
> used March 23 in the production of a television commercial for a Nashville
> bank. The commercial was videotaped on location at the George C. Marshall
> Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
>
> The AVR-2 was used also to record for television a performance by singer
> Johnny Cash at the Tennessee State Prison, Shelton said.
>
> Ampex introduced the AVR-2, the world's first modular-design studio
> quadruplex videotape recorder / reproducer for professional broadcast
> applications, at the 1974 National Association of Broadcasters Convention
> in Houston.
>
> Production models of the new lightweight, high-band machine were
> demonstrated there for the first time March 17-20.
>
> The first production models of the Ampex AVR-2 were purchased during the
> NAB show by the Chicago Archdiocesan Multimedia Communications Center and
> Network (CAMCAN) for use in its new multi-million dollar operations center
> now under construction.
>
> (Wonder where all these machines are now?)
>
>
> So, there's your Quad lead into NAB 2015.
>
> See you in Vegas!
>
>
> Ted
>
> Ted Langdell
> Secretary for the Quad Videotape Group
> Preserving Tape, Equipment and the Knowledge to use them, in conjunction
> with the Library of Congress
>
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> Email: ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
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>
> *Eighth Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB:  12:30pm on Tuesday,
> April 14, 2015, Las Vegas Convention Center*
>
> *See us at NAB 2015, April 13-16*, Lower South Hall Booth SL14813
> <http://nab15.mapyourshow.com/6_0/floorplan_link.cfm?show_id=nab15&alt_entry=true&curr_pri=facility&booth=SL14813&exhid=992>
> .
> Click here for *Free exhibit registration*
> <http://registration.experientevent.com/ShowNAB151/default.aspx?Passcode=LV3545>
>  with our Guest Pass Code: LV3545. Ends Friday, March 27.
>
>
>
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