<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:tahoma,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt">Hi Folks,<br><br>I believe that they actually delivered some TR-800 machines. I visited a production facility in either Australia or New Zealand in late 82 or the Summer of 83. I think they had major servo problems, and after the VPR-3 was introduced at IBC 82, in Brighton England, they quit working on the machine.<br>I know I saw some very sad folks with 3 machines that could not be used for even as playback machines. They asked me about the VPR-3 servos.<br>At that time I had not shipped any VPR-3's and I had a 40M$ signed order backlog, and the first machines went to ABC for use in Sarajevo Winter Olympics. <br><br>Bill Carpenter<br><div> </div><br><div><br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma,new york,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br><div style="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> Gary Adams <garyada@ix.netcom.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Quad List <quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, February 23, 2011 7:37:33 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCA TR-700<br></font><br> <style> <!-- _filtered {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;} _filtered {font-family:Wingdings;panose-1:5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;} _filtered {font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} _filtered {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue;text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple;text-decoration:underline;} span.apple-style-span {} span.EmailStyle18 {font-family:"sans-serif";color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {font-size:10.0pt;} _filtered {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;} div.Section1 {} --> </style> <div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">With respect to the TR800. Not exactly sure about the dates but I believe it was initially shown prior to the BVH2000 but it didn’t work very well. I don’t believe a single circuit is similar to the 2000. I did post final testing (interesting concept) on these in the era that they were “sort of” working which was after the 2000 gained market share. Even the remote control was RS-422 but not using the Sony (or SMPTE/Ampex) protocol. Had it
actually worked when it was introduced, would have been the best feature set machine on the market. There were a couple of fine Engineers, like Dave Tosch, who made them work really good. There were lots of war stories about this but we will leave that to Ted’s Type C Video Tape Group </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">J</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> Gary</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p> <div> <div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;
font-family: "sans-serif";"> quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com [mailto:quadlist-bounces@quadvideotapegroup.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>C. Park Seward<br> <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 22, 2011 3:40 PM<br> <b>To:</b> Quad List<br> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [QuadList] Jeporady Question of the Day--And the answer is RCA TR-700</span></p> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ha!. Looks like an AVR-3.</p> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal">But then their 1" development didn't work out very well either. I knew someone who had an 800 and they said the boards were copies of the Sony 2000.</p> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color: black;"><br> Best,</span></p> </div> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: "sans-serif"; color:
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