<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yep. That's what I have heard. I do have a Carson quad from the New York years that is partially erased. Seems that in storage, something erased a part of the tape. You can see the RF go down, the control track disappears and the audio get real low. And it repeats every revolution of the reel.<div><br></div><div>You can get a glimpse of the show and it looks great. Carson is very young. It's even on a reel with the RCA logo.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe an AVR-1 could play it back but with the picture disappearing every 10 seconds, may not be worth the effort.<br><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: 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: 0; "><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; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 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; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><div>Best,</div><div>Park</div><div><br></div></div><div>C. Park Seward</div><div>Visit us: <a href="http://www.videopark.com">http://www.videopark.com</a></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2009, at 4:29 PM, <a href="mailto:COURYHOUSE@aol.com">COURYHOUSE@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div id="role_body" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7" rightmargin="7"><font id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div><a title="http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/924730.html" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/924730.html">http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/columnists/glenn-garvin/story/924730.html</a></div> <div> </div> <div>''A lot of Carson was lost,'' he notes. 'It's tragic, actually. Carson's shows from the mid-'60s until the late '70s were all kept in an NBC storage facility. And some accountant decided in the late '70s: `What's all this stuff?' Someone said, these are just old tapes. 'Well, get rid of them.' So they destroyed them. . . . What we have of Carson is a lot of stuff that Carson himself had saved. But they lost a <em>ton</em>.''</div></div></font></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>