<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">MTV born this day in 1981. ACR-25's modified for stereo in use. See Bill's comments:<div><br></div><div><h1 style="font-family: Times; ">[QuadList] CBS ACR-25's</h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><b>Bill Carpenter</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><a href="mailto:quadlist%40quadvideotapegroup.com?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BQuadList%5D%20CBS%20ACR-25%27s&In-Reply-To=%3C496950.53813.qm%40web30806.mail.mud.yahoo.com%3E" title="[QuadList] CBS ACR-25's">wcarpen107 at yahoo.com </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><i>Sun Jan 10 14:37:53 CST 2010</i></span><div style="font-family: Times; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><ul style="font-family: Times; "><li>Previous message: <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/001798.html">[QuadList] CBS ACR-25's</a></li><li>Next message: <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/001807.html">[QuadList] CBS ACR-25's</a></li><li><b>Messages sorted by:</b> <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/date.html#1802">[ date ]</a> <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/thread.html#1802">[ thread ]</a> <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/subject.html#1802">[ subject ]</a> <a href="http://mail.quadvideotapegroup.com/pipermail/quadlist_quadvideotapegroup.com/2010-January/author.html#1802">[ author ]</a></li></ul><hr style="font-family: Times; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><pre>I think the most famous ACR 25's in use were the units at MTV, which were the only ones with stereo audio. When I tried to sell them replacement ACR-225's ( 1990), they were hooked on single program per cassette, and needed the 6 minute length. We could not persuade them that 256 - 30 minute cassettes would be much easier to work with than the ACR-25's. The folks at MTV also said that what the ACR-25's did for very fast, reactionary boadcasting, along with the rolling of 1" C format programs from still frames are what made this very different and unique format work.
OBTW, the stereo kits were built by the people at AMPEX Japan, and installed on-site, since they had done conversions for AVR-1's when Japan changed to stereo broadcasting
Bill Carpenter</pre></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: 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; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: 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; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; 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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br>Best Regards,<br><br>David Crosthwait<br>DC Video<br>Videotape transfers and more!<br><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><a href="mailto:david@dcvideo.com">david@dcvideo.com</a><br>www.dcvideo.com<br><br>Follow DC Video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dcvideo<br>Follow DC Video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/dcvideoonline</font><br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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