<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>General questions to the list:</div><div><br></div><div><div>There were obvious legal (FCC Rules), and operational reasons to insist on blanking to meet specs (tape exchange, smooth playback without hiccups on air or during editing among the reasons, pride in quality work is another.)</div><div><br></div><div>Times have changed, and with the demise of analog TV, blanking specs may not <b><i>seem</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> as important as they once were. </span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">I think they are, but there's likely a need to "sell" the idea to some folks who don't see why you can't just "slap it on/in the machine and hit play," and to train people in how to meet the standards.</span></b></div><div><br></div><div>In that regard:</div><div><br></div></div><div>What are people finding for blanking as they transfer archives of tapes?</div><div><br></div><div>Is out of spec material causing problems during transfer? Details?</div><div><br></div><div>What are you doing (if anything) to correct blanking for transfer to other tape or digital file formats?</div><div><br></div><div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "><i>Should</i> blanking be corrected?</span></i></div><div><br></div><div>Some archivists would want the material transferred "exactly as it is" warts and all.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span></div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:20 AM, <a href="mailto:DCFWTX@aol.com">DCFWTX@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font face="arial,helvetica"><font size="2" ptsize="10" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial" lang="0">In a message dated 2/1/2010 7:09:51 AM Pacific Standard Time, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> writes:<br> <br> <blockquote type="CITE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The machines all had to be checked and we reset the blanking width to the 10.8 (?) width. </blockquote></font><font color="#000000" back="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" size="3" ptsize="12" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial" lang="0"><br> </font><font color="#000000" back="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" size="2" ptsize="10" family="SANSSERIF" face="Arial" lang="0"><br> I think 10.6 was pretty much the target. 11.0 was nominal. More than 11.4 and it was grounds for rejection. 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