[QuadList] ATSC 30 station taking shape for NAB/Image Orthicon cameras r...

Wed Apr 19 22:32:21 CDT 2017

The Museum of the broadcast  television cameras  has a good list of RCA  
Cameras at http://tvcameramuseum.org/rca/rca_list.htm   by my experience they 
are a missing one camera type, that is the original  TK 44  a three Vidicoin 
color camera designed for use in operating  rooms, 10 were produced for 
medical use. to my knowledge only 3 were sold  the rest were given away. I know 
it well as I worked with it at the Army Medical  Center in 1956-7 and at 
the University of Michigan in 1958-62. Later while  at RCA I sold the TK-44A  
(Plumbicons) after an abortive attempt by RCA Lancaster to provide a 
modified 3  " IO to compete with the Philips Plumbicon Camera.  

Dirk B.  Freeman
Technical Consultant 
Blair Media Inc
PO Box 753
Wheat  Ridge, CO 80034
Cell: 303 619 2219
Blairmedia at aol.com

In a message dated 4/19/2017 7:20:58 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
COURYHOUSE at aol.com writes:

PAUL...IS TK34 FIELD VERSION OF TK-14?  Ed#

In a message dated 4/19/2017 5:17:58 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

-----Original Message-----
From:  Blairmedia at aol.com
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:17:28 -0400
Subject: Re:  [QuadList] ATSC 30 station taking shape for NAB/Image 
Orthicon cameras  r...
To: quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com, COURYHOUSE at aol.com
CC:  Paul_Beck at emerson.edu, Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com

Paul, Where will you be located.  I spent 22 years with RCA  (61-83) and 
never came across a TK34. 

Dirk B.  Freeman
Technical Consultant 
Blair Media Inc
PO Box 753
Wheat  Ridge, CO 80034
Cell: 303 619  2219
Blairmedia at aol.com

In a message dated 4/19/2017 1:43:56 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,  
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com writes:

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Beck  <Paul_Beck at emerson.edu>
To: "COURYHOUSE at aol.com"  <COURYHOUSE at aol.com>
CC: "quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com"  <quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>,
"Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com"  <Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>
Subject: Re: [QuadList] ATSC 30  station taking shape for NAB/Image Orthicon
cameras r...
Date: Wed,  19 Apr 2017 19:38:59 +0000

Oh yes. With two RCA cameras,  hopefully working.

Sent from my iPhone
Paul R. Beck,  Retired.
508-633-6859 (mobile)

On Apr 19, 2017,  at 2:16 PM, 
<COURYHOUSE at aol.com<mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com>>  <COURYHOUSE at aol.com<mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com>>  wrote:

DARN!  sorry to miss this...

I did  see  Paul Beck and crew last year though and enjoyed seeing the old  
gear  and actually meeting Paul in person at last.

Is  Paul's   crew also  going  this  year to  demo stuff?

Ed  Sharpe -

In a message dated 4/13/2017 9:59:00 A.M. US Mountain  Standard Time,  
quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>  writes:

-----Original Message-----
Subject: ATSC  3.0  station taking shape for NAB/Image Orthicon cameras  
returning
From: Ted Langdell  
<Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com>>
Date:  Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:58:41 -0700
To:  quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com<mailto:quadlist at quadvideotapegroup.com>

Thought  you'd want to know that the ATSC 3.0 demonstration station is 
taking shape  on Black Mountain in Las Vegas.

One of the people helping to build  the station is QuadList member John 
Turner, head honcho at Turner  Engineering in New Jersey.

He advised the Old VTR's group this  morning:

"We are building a real time ATSC 3.0 transmission system  on ch 50 at 
Black Mountain for the convention. Pulling this RF off air at  the Grand Lobby 
and North Hall. Big demo will be a 65” LG OLED consumer  receiver being sold 
in Korea today.

Content is UHD stored on a  Harmonic (Omneon) 50TB, 2 RU server. The server 
is playing out digital  video at 8X 1080I!
Sure interesting to compare this new system to the  1960’s analog VTRs.

John (My 50th consecutive NAB this  year)"

Turner helped build the ATSC 3.0 station at NAB last  year, and has 
participated in a number of other NAB demonstration projects  over the last several 
decades.

He also enjoys restoring Quad and  other vintage video tape equipment in 
his company's New Jersey  facility.

The "NextGen TV" demo area is in the Grand Lobby   between North and 
Central halls.

More about the ATSC 3.0 demo  here:
http://atsc.org/news-release/next-gen-tv-hub-showcase-benefits-new-broadcast
-tv-standard-2017-nab-show/#.WO-pPjxHaEc

"Tomorrow's  technology" is just a short walk away from where the Museum of 
Broadcast  Technology is bringing a showcase of vintage television gear to 
the  entrance of Northhall opposite the taxi drop off.

In the last  several years, the Museum's exhibit has showcased 2" quad 
video recorders  along with a number of portable television cameras from the mid 
to late  70s and early 80s.

MBT's Paul Beck advises this year's display is  RCA:  "One original TK-31 
with tubed power supply and one TK-34 with  WP-16 and external focus 
regulator. And... an original ZOOMAR 3x1 studio  lens.

Yep !  (Image) Orthicons are making a come back !!! You  just wait and see 
!!!!"

Should be an interesting  NAB, that's for sure!

I'll have an announcement about the "Annual  Quad Videotape Group Luncheon 
at NAB" in a forthcoming separate  email.

As always it will be on 12:30 PM, Tuesday, April 25, 2017.  The location is 
being identified. It will likely be near the MBT  exhibit.

Looking forward to seeing folks there. Unless something  changes 
dramatically in the next two weeks, we will be walking the floor  rather than standing 
in a booth.

Ted

Ted  Langdell
Secretary, Quad Videotape  Group
Ted at quadvideotapegroup.com
(530)301-2931

Dictated into  and Sent from my iPhone, which is solely responsible for any 
weird stuff I  didn't  catch.

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