<html><head><base href="x-msg://330/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Bill and the group,<div><br></div><div>In Burbank, NBC acquired six VR 2000's "because Hollywood production demanded it". In other words, NBC was competing from a production facility standpoint with CBS TV City (with new color cameras and VR 2000s) and other places. I was told by a former editor that NBC Burbank "had" to get those machines to be competitive. From the VR-2000 notes I received during the purging of 2" machines there a while back, the indication is that it was 1965 when they received their initial VR 2000's. Some had EECO edit controllers and four could be controlled via a CMX 300. </div><div><br></div><div>In Burbank, VTR 14 and 16 (VR 2000's) were assigned for "The Tonight Show" when the show originated from Burbank. Those machines didn't do much else the entire day especially from about 12:00 noon till at least 1:00 A.M. They each had an editec and a splicer near by. Four VTRs rolled at 5:30 for the taping, but 14 & 16 were the master machines. When the show ended at 7:00 P.M. (ninety minute days) they did whatever fixes that were needed (usually none) and the show was ready to feed east at 8:30 and west at 11:30. They looked perfect on the air. Bill's LA contract mention I believe is 100% correct.</div><div><br></div><div>Since at one time 17% percent of the network pre-tax revenue came from commercial spots in "The Tonight Show", they had dedicated machines for commercial integration. A TR 70B fed a TCR 100. Then at show taping, two TCR 100's (VT 6 & 8) were rolled from studio A for commercial integration. The show went to tape as if it was "live". I don't ever recall any commercial outage during production.</div><div><br></div><div>In 1979, NBC Burbank had the six VR-2000's. The rest were TR 70 A, B, and a couple of C's, TR 600 and 600A's. In 1982, there were six TCR 100's. But the Ampex 2" machines probably were at their peak by numbers in the VR 1000 days.</div><div><br></div><div>David Crosthwait</div><div>DC Video</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 9, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Bill Carpenter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; 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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; ">Hi Ted & Folks,<br>This may be partly(?) folklore, since it was passed on to me many years later, but it is "told" that NBC, NY pressured RCA, so they could buy some Ampex VR-2000's for New York, so they could properly compete with the other Networks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Ampex did some major priority list juggling, so they could get VR-2000's into NBC-NY. Customers who accepted these delays got some future firsts as a result of this action.<br><br>And on the other side of the fence, when RCA then submitted the first TR-70's, to the NY, NBC folks, they sent it back, and it delayed the final product introduction another six months.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>During this time many engineers from Camden, were spending a lot of late night time in the NY tape room, while the 2000's were "off-line".<br><br>I don't know if this is factual, but it sounded like a great story for this group!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Let's find out if anyone on this list knows anything about this??<br><br>"Fast Forward" many years, to the NBC/Johnny Carson, LA Contract that specified that VR-2000's were to be the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="text-decoration: underline; ">only</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>VTR's to be used on all of his broadcasts!<br><br><br>Bill Carpenter<br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </div><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 14pt; "><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">From:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Ted Langdell <<a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">To:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quad List <<a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a>><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Sent:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wed, February 9, 2011 5:04:46 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Subject:</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[QuadList] VTR introduction anniversaries: 1965<br></font><br><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The March, 1965 NAB convention in Washington had a slew of camera offerings in black and white and color, and the introduction of several new Quad and Helical tape recorders.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">High Band color recording was the big deal in 1965, following Ampex's introduction of High Band color with the VR-2000 in 1964.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Visual/Allen introduced the V/A 100G Quad—"The Continental"—which used Bosch transport and heads coupled with V/A electronics. $100,000.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><Visual Allen-Quad-Ad-April-1966-DonNorwoodCollection.jpg></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Visual/Allen was already known for converting tube-type Quads to solid state using assemblies it manufactured. "Allenized"</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> VR-1000's were seen in a lot of places. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The above April 1966 ad from the Don Norwood collection shows the range of "Allenizing" that the company pursued. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(Double-click to open in your software to make larger)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">RCA TRT series machines could be High Banded. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I think there's a couple of lines missing from this ad in regard to TRTs. I think it should read "High Band your TRT machines and...<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>eliminate those racks of tubes with</i> solid-state Allen Sync-Lock servo and All-Band RF systems." Allen also High Banded TR-22's, introduced by RCA in 1961 as the first all solid state Quad VTR.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Allen would rebuild Ampex VR-1000's with solid state electronics—eliminating the racks in the process— and would put the VR-1000 transport into a new cabinet with Allen electronics to create a new machine it called the "NB 1000."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This photo of a Visual/Allen V/A 50G at Rev. Gene Scott's KHOF-TV, 30, San Bernadino shows how a Bosch transport and head assembly was used to create a new Quad.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bruce Braun is leaning on a VR-1000 transport console. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><VisualElectronicsVA-50QuadAtKHOF-TV.jpeg></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Although it was a year behind Ampex introducing High Band recorders, RCA debuted its TR-70 High Band, which ran $82,500. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It was pitched as the "first fully integrated TV tape recording system for high-band color recording and playback." </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><images.jpeg></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It also showed a High Band update for the similar looking solid state TR-22, introduced in 1961.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The 1966 TR-22HB was $72,000. For ID purposes, the TR-22 had a VU meter in the speaker area on the upper right side of the machine, while the TR-70 did not.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On the Helical side of life:</div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sony showed its PV-120 2" helical. This example was among the machines that "collected" at WHIZ-TV, Zanesville, Ohio before it was sold to QuadList member David Crosthwait in 2007.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><IM000416-Sony-PV-120-Cropped.jpg></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This machine has 970 hours on it according to the meter, and a head maintenancee record with only 1967 dates.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Here's a look at the processing unit that went with it:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span><IM000449-PV-120U-TIS-1-TelevisionIntegratedStabilizer-Front.jpg></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This isn't a comprehensive list of what happened with tape in 1965. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Perhaps worth noting that February 1965—46 years ago—is when it was announced that Visual Electronics would market the Phillips/Norelco PC-60 color camera in the US, according to Albert Abramson's second book about TV. CBS was rumored to get the first units at a cost of around $65,000. No indication of whether that was with lens or without.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ted</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; font-size: 14px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; "><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 class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></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; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></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; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Please trim posts to relevant info when replying!<br>Send QuadList list posts to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com">QuadList@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><br>Your subscribe, unsubscribe and digest options are here:<br><a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com">http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/mailman/listinfo/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com</a></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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