<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>It would be nice if the writer got his history straight :) An VR-1000 by any description (VRX, MarkIV, etc,) is NOT a video CASSETTE recorder.</div><div><br></div><div>A proper "muck up" for the 57th anniversary of the intro of Quad would include artifacts like dropout, scalloping, skewing and banding.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><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-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>Ted</div><div><br></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; "><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><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></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></div></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 16, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Skip Elsheimer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>YouTube Adds “Tape Mode” To Select Videos In Celebration Of Video<br>Casette Recorder’s 57th Birthday<br><br><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/youtube-adds-tape-mode-to-select-videos-in-celebration-of-video-casette-recorders-57th-birthday/">http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/15/youtube-adds-tape-mode-to-select-videos-in-celebration-of-video-casette-recorders-57th-birthday/</a><br><br>Are we going to remember our formats solely based on their glitches<br>and artifacts (film dust and scratches, video noise, and vinyl record<br>scratches)?<br><br><br>Skip Elsheimer<br>A/V Geeks LLC<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>