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<DIV>The article on interchangeability was interesting. It high lighted
the early days of the videotape recorder. Congratulations to the SMPTE for
setting the standards and recommended practices that made the format a long
running success. </DIV>
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<DIV>The article also shows tells us that good operating procedures result in
good tapes. </DIV>
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<DIV>Chris Hill</DIV>
<DIV>WA8IGN</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 3/4/2011 10:27:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ted@quadvideotapegroup.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class=Apple-style-span>In 1959, Ampex began publishing a newsletter
specifically about Videotape and the company's Videotape products.
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=4><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class=Apple-style-span><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA1.1299253933@aol.com" width=204 height=256 apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" DATASIZE="29091" ID="MA1.1299253933" ></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: medium Helvetica"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px" class=Apple-style-span>Here's the second page of Volume 1 Number 3, published
in December, 1959, with type turned into editable text by OCR. It
includes the conclusion of "Humble Oil Scores Big With Football Tapes from
Page 1.</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA2.1299253933@aol.com" alt=AHL-V1-3-Nov-1959-P1-Masthead.jpg width=504 height=127 DATASIZE="25306" ID="MA2.1299253933" ></DIV>
<P style="MARGIN: 5px 0px 0px; FONT: 18px Helvetica"><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#4a7fca size=6><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 23px" class=Apple-style-span><FONT class=Apple-style-span color=#000000 size=5><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 18px" class=Apple-style-span><B>Page
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<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 23px Helvetica; COLOR: #4a7fca"><B>Let’s
Talk About...</B></P>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica"><IMG SRC="cid:X.MA3.1299253933@aol.com" alt=AHL-V1-3-Nov-1959-P2-RossSnyder-Mug.jpg width=129 height=130 DATASIZE="9395" ID="MA3.1299253933" ></DIV>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica; COLOR: #4a7fca"><I>Ross
Snyder</I></P></TD>
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<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">(Editor’s Note)
<B>HEAD LINES</B> welcomes Ross Snyder as a regular
contributor. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">He will discuss a
variety of technical topics concerned with television tape recording.
Snyder’s experience fully qualifies him as an authority. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Before joining
Ampex -in 1952-as an engineer, he was an announcer-producer for WOR, New
York, and an audio engineer and newscaster for KJBS, San Francisco. Now
manager of video products, Ampex Professional Products Company, Snyder
supervises video product planning, systems engineering, industrial
design and service engineering. </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">He is a member of
the national board and a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society. He
holds membership in the Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers, the British Television Society and the Acoustical Society of
America.</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 16px Helvetica"><B>60 SPLICES IN FOOTBALL
TAPES</B><SPAN style="FONT: 14px Helvetica"><B> </B>(continued)</SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">series, has put together
a team that moves with amazing speed and know-how. Most of the games are
played on Saturday nights. The edited versions, complete with commentary by
sportscaster Kern Tips and commercials, go-on the air at 5:30 p.m. the
following day.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Briefly, here is the
productionroutine. Depending on the origination point, the entire game is fed
to an Ampex recorder in either KRLD, KPRC or WOAI.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Lyerly watches the live
-feed and makes notes of the action. As soon as the game is over, he and his
tape editor go to work reducing the approximately 2% hours of recording to 25
minutes of highlights. Open and close commercials (filmed) are superimposed on
the tape. Then Tips views the completed tape and prepares his commentary. Tips
goes on camera in the studio, and his lead-in is taped. Crowd noise, which has
been held on a separate audio tape, is then mixed with Tips’ commentary and
dubbed onto the edited tape. A dub of the completed master is made for
back-up. And the show is ready.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">From start of the game
until completion of the dub of the edited master tape, around 10 hours of
recorder operating time is logged for the complete job.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">“These edited tapes are
wonderful technical successes,” agency spokesmen said.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Until last year, Humble
Oil used film for its football shows.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">“Tape is a tremendous
improvement,” the agency declared. “Not only is the picture quality far
better.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">But it would be
impossible to put the show on the air before Monday with film. Tape gives us
at least 24 hours’ advantage.”</P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica; COLOR: #4a7fca"><B>INTERCHANGEABILITY</B><SPAN style="COLOR: #000000"><B> OF TAPES</B></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">We’re impressed
constantly with the fact that interchangeability is not a black-and-white
affair. Interchangeability is a matter of degree. Monochrome tapes have been
interchanged among Ampex’s VIDEOTAPE television recorders for years - and very
satisfactorily whenever the operating engineer had a few minutes in which to
make some playback readjustments. This has also been true of color tapes made
on Ampex color-converted VR-1000 series recorders. Color tapes, recorded at
the 1958 American Medical Association Convention in San Francisco, were played
interchangeably on two different color recorders, before a public audience, on
July 22, 1958. The most dramatic interchange of color tapes was the now-famous
Nixon-Khrushchev debate, recorded on one Ampex color recorder at the American
National Exhibition in Moscow and dubbed and played back in color by NBC, New
York, on a different machine with a different recording head.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Interchangeability of
black-and-white recordings among Ampex VR-1000 series recorders is a
longproved reality. Hundreds of commercials, and dozens of syndicated
television programs, are exchanged every week.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">But Ampex feels that the
present degree of interchangeability is not enough. The television industry
demands, and rightly so, that recorded television tapes ultimately become
replayable on any television recorder, without readjustments of any kind, and
that tapes made anywhere be interspliceable. We feel that television tape,
While now interchangeable, must become as interspliceable as photographic
motion picture film.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">The attainment of
universal interspliceability requires a high degree of business responsibility
on the part of the recorder manufacturers. All must continue to improve
machinery and to make it easier to use.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">But the success or
failure of the manufacturer’s efforts will lie ultimately with the operating
engineers in the television industry. Monochrome tapes made on different Ampex
recorders can be interspliced, with care in operation.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">The care which is
required is care which must be exercised during the recording process. Once
the tape is recorded, there’s nothing we can do to change the mechanical and
electrical settings which will be required for satisfactory playback of the
tape. Only by universal observation of a single set of sensible operating
standards, during every recording session, can universal interspliceability be
achieved.</P>
<P style="MARGIN: 7px 0px 0px; FONT: 14px Helvetica">Ross Snyder Video
Products Manager </P>
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<DIV><FONT class=Apple-style-span size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px" class=Apple-style-span>Ted Langdell</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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