<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Apr 29, 2011, at 5:10 AM, <a href="mailto:Chill315@aol.com">Chill315@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; "><div style="font-size: 14px; "> I would go for it if all one is doing is a single standard and High Band only. If not, then you are stuck with a VR-1200 series. </div></span></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>No quite so... as a result of the first new development for Quad videotape in decades!</div><div><br></div><div><b>As we announced at the Quad/Editor/Telecine lunch at NAB... </b></div><div>There's a new board set that will take care of making an AVR-2 capable of running high band c/m and Low Band color and monochrome with just a few switch flips or turns.</div><div><br></div><div>This makes it possible to standardize on the AVR-2 as a machine of choice for these tape formats. </div><div><br></div><div>The board is an outgrowth of Ken Zin's execution for his own AVR-2. He and long-time colleague Al Sturm have collaborated on the design. Al is handling the manufacturing details and I'm marketing it.</div><div><br></div><div>The set replaces the demod card, and modifies the EQ/Switcher card to work with the new demod. It can be set up to work with NTSC and PAL.</div><div><br></div><div>Please contact me off-list at <b><i><a href="mailto:ted@flashscan8.us?subject=AVR-2%20Board%20Set%20for%20Low%20Band">ted@flashscan8.us</a> </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; ">for further info.</span></b></div><div><br></div><div><b>Beyond Low Band Color...</b></div><div>There's also the possibility of a slightly different board set to allow AVR-2 transfer of RCA Labs color and RCA color, those wonderful pre-low band heterodyne formats used on the WRC-TV dedication (Eisenhower tape), the "Evening with Fred Astaire" recordings and other shows done at NBC or on early color RCA machines.</div><div><br></div><div>That's taken mods to 10 or so AVR-1 boards to accomplish. QuadList member Ed Reitan did it in 1987/88 to enable recovery of the Eisenhower and Astaire tapes (among others) with Don Kent operating the KTLA machine. That's now in CBS-TVC (with the boards, I'd think.)</div><div><br></div><div>QuadList member David Crosthwait did it for one of his AVR-1's a couple of years ago and presented a short talk w/powerpoint at the AMIA 'Reel Thing' in St. Louis. It took some late night soldering-iron sessions and a lot of reference to the RCA TRT-1C manuals he has to reverse engineer the process and develop his set of mods.</div><div><br></div><div>Ted</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ted Langdell</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Secretary</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0018ea" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 24, 234); "></font></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>