<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/2/2009 11:11:56 AM Pacific Daylight Time, ted@quadvideotapegroup.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The Toshiba/Fuji reel is interesting, because Toshiba was at one time Ampex's Japanese partner in a company making Quads for the Japanese market. Has me thinking that perhaps it was recorded on a Toshiba-made machine. Now if we could find someone in Japan who knows the background of Japanese Quad manufacture and deployment...<BR>
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I think Richard Diehl knows more about the Sony 2" quad situation. Sony did make a 2" quad machine, however I don't know how wide spread it was in use, or if it was to Ampex standrard. Toshiba did make one as seen in Korea (I have a picture from a friend who saw it while stationed in the military there). Toshiba made a Colortec/Amtec unit that saw a brief introduction in the U.S. before some sort of patent infringement issue came up. I have what apparently is the second one that ever entered the U.S. So, the "Toshiba was at one time Ampex's Japanese partner in a company making Quads for the Japanese market" statement is interesting due to the previous problem with the Toshiba Amtec/Colortec unit. I am CC'ing Jim Wheeler on this.<BR>
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The Germans made quads (Bosch). The Russians had some sort of quad based on an AVR-1 that "disappeared" for several years behind the iron curtain, suddenly to "reappear" coincidentally when the Russian made "Kadar 5" (?) came out. This is a story I've heard several times over the years and may be somewhat distorted or dead wrong. <BR>
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One last thing about Japanese NTSC recordings: Their black level setup is "zero", not 7.5.<BR>
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David Crosthwait<BR>
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