<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I know of one TV station in the seventies in a top ten market who owned 3 ACR 25's. Two for commercial air and one exclusively for news casts. All film or ENJ were loaded to individual ACR cassettes and zero rolled during the newscast. I believe the TD was the newscast director. The anchor pitched to the story, then roll and take simultaneously. It made for a very tight and fast newscast.<div><br></div><div>One station in LA had ACR-25's then ACR 225's. There was not enough Kleenex in the house for the tears that were shed for years afterwards having to give up their ACR-25's. They eventually got over that by getting rid of the ACR-225's. </div><div><br><div>Regards,</div><div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>David Crosthwait<br>DC Video<br><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; ">Videotape transfers and more!</i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><br><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br>www.dcvideo.com<br>Follow DC Video on Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo">https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo</a><br></font><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:23 AM, Trevor wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>I was at an ITV network TV station with around 6 million viewers and yes we<br>started live to air with TCR100's<br>I think it fair to say TC100's are not as reliable as the ACR25<br>RCA did not have good digital TBC<br>The RCA Pinch roller less Capstan had its problems as did the cassette<br>design<br><br>Everything could have been sorted except for misinformation "pinch roller's<br>do not go wrong"<br>"The cassette box is not in circuit once the tape has threaded", were the<br>main themes of misinformation<br><br>When the engineer Bill ..... who's name will come to me turned and spoke the<br>truth<br>Changing Pinch roller capstan assemblies and rejecting new ones RCA sent<br>and showing how to diagnosed faulty cassettes then they could have continued<br>to be live<br><br>Alas by that time the decision was not to go live but to copy breaks to tape<br>and they were never used again live on air<br><br>I do not blame engineers the misinformation came from the top of RCA<br>Never went ACR25 they were replaced by BCN 100 and then Panasonic marc<br>machines D3 decks<br><br>TrevorB<br>UK Member <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>[mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Degan<br>Sent: 24 August 2012 15:07<br>To: Quad List<br>Subject: Re: [QuadList] Servo Modes<br><br><br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:50 AM, Wayne Watson wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Also related to a similar thread we (an independent station with no<br></blockquote>network spot support) ran our only ACR direct to air for many years. <br>It was something us techs were very proud of.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I say:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Not to throw cold water on it Wayne, but I don't know of a single TV<br>station that DIDN'T run their cart machines live to air. Only networks<br>would do this (with the notable exception of NBC). At the network level,<br>where more money is at stake, reliability is of much higher priority than<br>operator convenience. Not only would CBS and ABC cut their commercials into<br>the program masters, they would run two copies of the commercial-inserted<br>program on the air simultaneously to <br>enable quick switching in case of a failure of the on-air tape. <br>Again, no local TV station I'm aware of did this.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wayne also said:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">So......speaking of proud....it is absolutely amazing what engineers did<br></blockquote>30 to 40 years ago with no operating systems to take advantage of. Three<br>developments to think about are the above fast lock VTR's; the Chyron and<br>the ADO. I think most of this using massive TTL logic? Someone can back me<br>up here but I think the ADO had a 200 Amp 5 volt supply to run all those<br>chips. The Chyron and ACR (logic<br>bay) even did all this with wire wrap on the chips (I think).<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I offer:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Wire wrap is very reliable. Obviously, if the equipment was being<br>built today, wire wrap would probably not be used because the method was<br>more labor-intensive than others. But it did have its advantages.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> NBC Today Show, New York<br><br><br><br><br><br>______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying.<br><br>Change subject to reflect thread direction. 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