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<DIV><FONT size=4>Hi Bob...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Very interesting...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The AVR 3's were in the production area. All network
news stories were put across </FONT><FONT size=4>to the production ACR-25 for
playout. Film stories remained on</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>A-B reels...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In the air area, an AVR-1 two AVR2's and the second
ACR-25 handled</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>those duties. Production VTR's could be called across to
air if needed. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>During the AVR-3 ramp up with the field engineers, I did see
some two</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>inch tape get "snapped" in half when one of the 3's would do a
fast-forward and rewind simultaneously!!! ;-)</FONT> <FONT
size=4> Fun stuff!! That problem was solved!!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>DonM</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 7/25/2009 12:40:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
rabruner@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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id=AOLMsgPart_0_be04166f-a8be-4e67-a020-3966f5e60007><PRE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><TT>WTVJ bought 5 of the AVR-3's when they first came out.
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He picked the 3 that he liked best, wrote down all the pertinent serial
numbers and details and thanked me for my time!!
Don Murray
Retired from 40 years in Miami Television
35+years at WTVJ NBC O&O
I worked at WGN for several years and they had some AVR-3s, used mostly for production.<BR>
They used VR-2000Bs for direct playback to air, along with 3 TCR-100s. The AVRs usually<BR>
worked well, and made great pictures. They would use the quick roll feature during newscasts.<BR>
They would build a dub real and then use the five event editor to put a cue before each<BR>
story on the reel so they could randomly search to them quickly. Every once in a while<BR>
when given the button push to go to the next cut, or whatever, the AVR would go nuts and <BR>
spin the reels counter to each other and throw tape all the way to the ceiling. It was <BR>
a problem neither they nor Ampex ever solved. That particular AVR was referred to by the<BR>
operators as "Killer."<BR>
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Bob Bruner<BR>
WTTW/Chicago
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