<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 3/29/2009 4:52:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, DennyD1@verizon.net writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">All of the 1-inch VTRs were Sony machines, many were branded RCA but <BR>
were actually built by Sony. The complete rebuild of the tape floor <BR>
happened after I left NBC in 1979. I don't think NBC NY had any of <BR>
those RCA-built 1-inch VTRs either (I forgot the model number). But <BR>
there was a clear corporate drive towards including RCA equipment when <BR>
possible. The timing may not have been right for VTRs, but there was <BR>
tons of other equipment there made by RCA: cameras, switchers, audio <BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">I never saw any RCA badged Sony 1000's or 1100'.s Only Sony gear. Neither the Ampex VPR 2 series nor the RCA TR 800 ever make it in the building as far as I know. The announcement of going to MII in 1986 was a major "change" and the attempted end of Sony gear. Didn't quite work out as planned...<BR>
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David:<BR>
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>I'll work on the floor plan. I have at least one NBC tape room with <BR>
VR 1000s and one of the TRT Xs in rotation on my web site. More to <BR>
come.<BR>
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I ask:<BR>
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What's the website's URL?<BR>
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<A HREF="www.dcvideo.com">www.dcvideo.com</A><BR>
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David Crosthwait<BR>
DC Video <BR>
Archived Videotape Re-mastering<BR>
177 West Magnolia Blvd.<BR>
Burbank, CA. 91502<BR>
818-563-1073<BR>
818-563-1177 (fax)<BR>
818-285-9942 (cell)<BR>
DCFWTX@AOL.COM <BR>
DAVID@DCVIDEO.COM<BR>
<A HREF="WWW.DCVIDEO.COM">WWW.DCVIDEO.COM</A><BR>
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