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<DIV>From info that I have (aside from getting the model number wrong), one
person heavily involved in the TR-800 project was Ray Baldock who later worked
for Sony on the Betacart systems and has now been at Tek/GVG/Thomson/GV/??
for many years, so some of you may know him.</DIV>
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<DIV>Don</DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=david@dcvideo.com href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">David
Crosthwait</A> </DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Yes, I remember the TR 800 well. They were like nothing else at
the time. No Sony copycats on that machine. It was all apparently built
from the ground up, just too late and too
problematic. Microprocessor controlled and ran like a bat out of
hell (even when they were not suppose to take off during sports slo-mo cue
up). In the early 80's while working for NBC (owned at that time by RCA), we
were hearing rumors that this machine had scanner bearing problems and was
being held up till that was resolved. The first TR 800's I saw were in the QV
remote truck. But the problems with reliability were so bad that RCA assigned
an engineer during one remote in Vegas who did nothing but sit by the VTR door
and waited for one of us to yell "help, we have a runaway!". The director and
producers were not amused. Needless to say, the next time we used that truck,
the TR 800's were gone and replaced by BVH 2000's.
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