<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Congratulations, Park,</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Jun 2, 2009, at 9:49 AM, C. Park Seward wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJsx80gRHI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psJsx80gRHI</a><br></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Glad to know you've been able to trace down the source of the banding. The clip you sent that was H264? compressed and "native" frame size looked very clean otherwise. I'm guessing first generation?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm curious to know what was on the label of this particular videotape? (Or was it this Sony 970 with no label?)</div><div><br></div><div><img height="240" width="324" src="cid:A817E192-8839-4BF0-924A-81CCC0515681"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Do you know the nature of the broadcast and the record-date and location?</div><div><br></div><div>Yakima counts <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itayanagi,_Aomori" title="Itayanagi, Aomori" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; ">Itayanagi, Japan</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; "> as a sister city, which may have some connection to the clip. Or not.</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>A bit of background: This tape and Quad machines were from <a href="http://www.kndu.com">KNDO,</a> Yakima, WA.</div><div><br></div><div>KNDO is celebrating its <a href="http://www.kndu.com/Global/category.asp?C=160211">50th anniversary </a>this year. On the clip, I think the caucasian gent in the middle of the Japanese folks is Hugh Davis, founder of the station, seen in the lower right photo on this page <a href="http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10289532">http://www.kndu.com/Global/story.asp?S=10289532</a></div><div><br></div><div>Hugh's son Bob has been involved with the station since birth, and talks about his dad and and TD'ing the late newscast in the 60's... in a way that might have been very typical for a station in this small of a market. You'll chuckle and nod your head. Clips here: <a href="http://www.kndu.com/Global/category.asp?C=167409">http://www.kndu.com/Global/category.asp?C=167409</a></div><div><br></div><div>Park: You'd sent a bunch of photos of tapes that came with the VR-1200's, and some of these tapes look like they may have been not just of Japanese manufacture—Sony, Fuji, etc.—but may have been <i>recorded</i> in Japan, as the Sony shipper with Japanese writing on the side indicates.</div><div><br></div><div><img height="240" width="298" src="cid:663DC4B1-EE79-4D9A-9F7A-FCEF845B4E2F"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Toshiba/Fuji reel is interesting, because Toshiba was at one time Ampex's Japanese partner in a company making Quads for the Japanese market. Has me thinking that perhaps it was recorded on a Toshiba-made machine.</div><div><img height="240" width="324" src="cid:995139A5-61CA-42C7-A9E9-79F55E8C80A8"></div><div><br></div><div>Now if we could find someone in Japan who knows the background of Japanese Quad manufacture and deployment...</div><div><br></div><div>David C. probably has seen quite a few that look like this:</div><div><img height="240" width="324" src="cid:50D2341A-1DF3-48DA-9D22-AAEAF41A861D"></div><div><br></div><div>Have fun as the reels turn.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><div><div><div>Ted Langdell</div><div>Secretary</div><div>Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</div><div>e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></div></div></div></div> </div><br></div></body></html>