<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>It's the 50th Anniversary of the VR-2000 introduction at NAB, which also ushered in the era of High Band (aka High-Band, Highband) recording, which made significant improvements to picture quality.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>It would be another seven years before Ampex introduced another ground-breaking VTR, the AVR-1.</div><div></div></div><div><br></div><div>By the time that occurred, the VR-2000 and it's updated versions are said to have been the Ampex's most profitable product, according to a report about a 1971 award to Colortec inventor Charles Coleman, mentioned here:</div><div><a href="http://www.earlytelevision.org/coleman_eulogy.html">http://www.earlytelevision.org/coleman_eulogy.html</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>See the VR-2000B brochure from 1969 on QuadList member Don Norwood's website:</div><div><a href="http://www.digitrakcom.com/literature/VR2000BbrochureWEB.pdf">http://www.digitrakcom.com/literature/VR2000BbrochureWEB.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><div>I'd love to write something about Ampex introducing a new product at NAB this year. </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry I missed the opportunity three days ago to tell about the new VR-2014 which uses Ultra High Band via the Bong modulation process designed by the company's well regarded scientist Wha chubin Zmowking.</div><div><br></div><div>Been swamped prepping for NAB, where we will be screening real-time <b><i>4K+™</i></b> from an<i style="font-weight: bold; "> </i>MWA Nova <i style="font-weight: bold; ">Choice4K+™</i> using 8, Super8, 9.5 and 16mm film stocks.</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Hope all who are attending have safe trips, plenty of food and are able to make the Quad Videotape Group Annual Lunch at NAB on Tuesday. </div><div><br></div><div>Details below. </div><div><br></div><div>Back to packing.</div><br><div>
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"><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" style="font-size: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Ted</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Ted Langdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Secretary</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Skype: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>TedLangdell</span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><a href="mailto:ted@quadvideotapegroup.com">ted@quadvideotapegroup.com</a></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></span></div></span><div style="font-size: medium; line-height: normal; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: medium; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; line-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Seventh Annual Quad Videotape Group Lunch at NAB at 12:30pm on Tuesday, April 08, 2014</b></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; ">Meet/Eat at<a href="http://nab14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/floorplan_link.cfm?show_id=nab14&exhid=2029&booth=L8"> Booth L-8</a> in the hallway between Central and North Halls</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; ">At the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://nab14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/exhibitor_details.cfm?exhid=2029" style="font-size: 10px; ">MUSEUM OF BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> display</span></div></blockquote><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-align: -webkit-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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://nab14.mapyourshow.com/5_0/exhibitor_details.cfm?exhid=992" style="font-weight: normal; ">NAB 2014, Las Vegas</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; ">, April 7-10, 2014</span></span></span></blockquote></div></span><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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