Due to your post I feel compelled to dispel any rumors that the M2 format was anything less than a resounding success for NBC. In fact I was told editing with M2 was never a problem. They merely dubbed everything to 1 inch for the edit then dubbed the edited 1 inch back to M2 for broadcast thereby saving several other potentially time consuming steps. For example they were able to deliver that "almost VHS" like quality to the home viewer without ever having to dub the material to VHS. Just imagine the time saving and tape stock savings. Think of it as Sapphire 3's very cool TV distortion effects all bundled right into the record format at no additional cost! When I was researching the format back in the early 90's NBC was just an "Open Book" about their success so I find this whole corporate gag order nonsense to be just that, nonsense. ;-)
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "jeffsengpiehl" <jeffsengpiehl@...> wrote:
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> Steve- as much as I love to take shots at the foolishness that lives (lived) in Avid's PR department, this one may not be on them.
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> When a larger scale client sets up a deal with Avid, there is a discussion about PR. Avid would love to point to anyone and everyone who gets a large install, or converts from a bad time with the competition. And typically there are financial carrots offered for such gems. If the client is not interested, or in some cases has specific corporate policy forbidding such disclosures for the sake of PR for a third party company, then Avid's PR department has their hands tied.
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> If things go viral, or come out through a path like this one seems to- people talking to people, talking to industry wags, getting to print, then that's not Avid breaking a confidentiality agreement.
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> Because while a lot folks have derided Avid for their "Confidentiality clauses" in the past, they are just as beholden to them when a client's legal department decides they need certain verbiage and guarantees in the sales contract.
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> I would be pretty damn certain that there's a parent corporation here that doesn't feel the need for anyone to "tell this story" to everyone out there. Especially when it looks like your own folks made some poor decisions regarding HD conversion, and it wound up costing a pretty penny. I somehow doubt that despite it being the Ellen show, Apple didn't offer them any kind of cash back on their gear.
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> JDS
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