OT: just for those intersted about analog tape

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:25 , Bill Akers gie sprachen "Vyizdur 
zomen emororz izaziz zander isorziz", and continued with:

> Bill Vermillion wrote:

> >If you got the wrong sync pulse the picture would slip down 1/2
> >frame. 

> What??? Please explain what this does!!! My experience says it
> would just lose a part of one frame and all subsequent frames
> would be right back in proper order.

I'm pulling this from memory of about 35-40 years ago.  

I'm trying to remember if I saw the guy editing the tape
at KXLY-TV in Spokane Wash, of WFTV in Orlando.  If it was
the former that was in 1962 and the machine was an RCA VTR-1 [or
something close to that].   That was a CBS station and I thought it
was strange as the local NBC station also had an RCA and I'd have
thought with the competition they would go with Ampex.

Three 6 foot tall racks.   I left Spokane for Orlando
in August of 1962 - so forgive me if my memory has rusted like the
tape.


It's been so long since I've been near one of those beasts you
could be right.  I didn't do the editing but was wathching someone
else.  That was in the days when all TV had vertical hold and
horizontal hold knobs on the front too.

Bill
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