Thank you, Jeff!
You are welcome at any time. I'd treat you to your favorite drink, turn on a tape recorder, and ask you a ton of questions about all you can remember.
Watching specials like CNN decades (The Sixties, The Seventies, The Eighties) – where they pull out the pristine stuff and even re-size it for 16:9, I am still amazed how, when properly cared for, it really holds up even until today. It shows the engineers of the era – many of whom are passing away in this decade – really knew their s••t !! I saw at a national network's Master Control room receive those retro-DVD collections (Carson, Carol Burnett, Sonny & Cher – a lot of stuff at CBS Television City), and the re-mastering of all of it just looks beautiful.
Cheers,
k.
On Sunday, July 24, 2016 6:31 PM, "Jeff Kreines jeff@kinetta.com [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
Quad can look amazing. The first VTR I used was an Ampex VR-1500, a low end version of the VR-660 2" helical machine circa 1966. My junior high school was an Ampex beta site. But I abandoned all that for film a couple of years later.
Use a Betamax instead, Sol. This past Friday night's HBO/REAL TIME "New Rules" at CBS Television City, Bill Maher talked about the last VHS VCR to come off the assembly line, but ironically the over-the-shoulder graphic for the punchline featured a Betamax cassette - LOL.
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To answer Jeff's Question:
I have an Ampex AVR-2, because it is the only one easy enough to push around on wheels, and run on 120v AC household current. The air compressor for the head assembly is out on the balcony.
I actually have boxed, un-opened new 2-inch tape stock from 3M/Scotch, that I make today's kids open, thread and record on. 2-inch was before my time, but I remember watching it in awe. Taking an HD, 2K or 4K feed and recording it in SD on 2-inch -- the format still looks amazing in composite analog; if only the cameras of that era had kept up. No other format has lasted 30 yea rs.
I make those same kids watch the first 9 minutes of this annotated video I uploaded of the off-line/on-line process, comparing it with today.
STUDIO SEE - PBS Kids Show 1979
Here is my living room and dining area:
:-P
Oh, and yes, there are working 1/2-inch EIAJ reel-to-reel black and white and color Sony and Panasonic's.
-keoni tyler
-------In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, <sol.fischler@...> wrote :Don't make fun or I'll hit you with my Super-8 projector... :-)-------------------------------------------------Sol FischlerEditor: Image & Sound914-525-2579
From: "Jeff Kreines jeff@... [Avid-L2]" <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
To: Avid-L2@yaho ogroups.com; Sol Fischler <sol.fischler@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: Goodbye VCRs
So what kind of Quad VTR do you have?
Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff@...
kinetta.com
> On Jul 24, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Sol Fischler sol.fischler@... [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> People wonder why I keep one of every format video & audio tape deck --
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