<html><head><base href="x-msg://32/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Denny,<div><br></div><div>Yes, I should have been more specific in my time frame reference to when the TCRs were used for Nightly News roll-ins. I was thinking more of the John Chancellor days when the TCR could be seen rolling and locking up in a monitor behind him. This could also be seen on Saturday Night Live when the camera was in the control room for some scenes in the first few years.</div><div><br></div><div>The 5 second roll was the same in Burbank. The TD hits the roll button, but the actual pulse hits the TCR remote at -2.</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:33 PM, <a href="mailto:dennyd1@verizon.net">dennyd1@verizon.net</a> 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><br> On Mar 1, 2011 11:39:19 AM,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com">quadlist@quadvideotapegroup.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><br>> On the NBC Network "Nightly News", the TCR-100 was used for roll-ins. Two second pre-roll was all you got then.<br><br> I say:<br><br> Perhaps you are right if you are referring to the time before the existence of the 4th Floor EJ. But when I first came to NBC in 1978, TCRs were used ONLY for spot playback. EJ playback originated from U-Matic BVU-200s in 1978.<br> Also, as I recall, though the TCR-100 cart machine itself was capable of 2-second pre-rolls, all the other quad VTRs in the tape area on the 5th floor (mostly RCA TR-70As and Bs) used 5-second prerolls. Therefore, in order to avoid pre-roll errors, the TCRs at NBC New York had an additional 3-second delayed start function built into the machine control system which effectively made the TCRs' pre-roll 5 seconds, matching the pre-roll time of the other VTRs in the plant.<br><br> Dennis Degan, Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank<br> NBC Today Show, New York<br><br><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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