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"Martin Underwood" a@b wrote:

Graeme Wall wrote in message
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"Ronnie Clark" wrote:

It was quite some time before more advanced editing techniques made
it possible to record a whole serial in one go, however I vaguely
recall that it started in the middle of the third series.

Not quite sure what you mean by this, presumably you are referring to
the advent of electronic editing.

What was it that precluded electronic editing by dubbing from one tape to
another, as they did until a few years ago? Was it simply that copying from
one tape to another in the early days brought the quality below acceptible
broadcast standards?



The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync was a
problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go from play
to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually Ampex devised a
quad machine that would do instant starts, first used on the Andre Previn
concerts.

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Graeme Wall
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In message , Graeme Wall
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The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync was a
problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go from play
to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually Ampex devised a
quad machine that would do instant starts, first used on the Andre Previn
concerts.

I was at a loose end in South Kensington for a couple of hours last week
and went along to the Science Museum to pay my respects to "Rocket".
While mooching around I actually stumbled on one of these early (very
early as it turned out) Ampex Machines. Apparently
Associated-Rediffusion imported the first one from the US to the UK.
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ian Jelf wrote:

I was at a loose end in South Kensington for a couple of hours last
week and went along to the Science Museum to pay my respects to
"Rocket". While mooching around I actually stumbled on one of these
early (very early as it turned out) Ampex Machines.

If anyone else is old enough to grok the word-play - I once
saw a cartoon of the VERA equipment at the BBC, with the caption
"Someone isn't using Ampex".

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"Alan J. Flavell" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ian Jelf wrote:

I was at a loose end in South Kensington for a couple of hours last
week and went along to the Science Museum to pay my respects to
"Rocket". While mooching around I actually stumbled on one of these
early (very early as it turned out) Ampex Machines.

If anyone else is old enough to grok the word-play - I once
saw a cartoon of the VERA equipment at the BBC, with the caption
"Someone isn't using Ampex".

Hmmm!

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Graeme Wall
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Graeme Wall wrote:

The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync was a
problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go from play
to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually Ampex devised a
quad machine that would do instant starts, first used on the Andre Previn
concerts.

Was that the AVR1?

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"Stephen Furley" wrote:


Graeme Wall wrote:

The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync was
a problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go
from play to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually
Ampex devised a quad machine that would do instant starts, first used on
the Andre Previn concerts.

Was that the AVR1?


Possibly, sounds vaguely familiar. To be honest I don't really know, I was
on the gallery end of the chain and it was just VT69 (or whatever) as far as
I was concerned.

--
Graeme Wall
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"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
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In message .com
"Stephen Furley" wrote:


Graeme Wall wrote:

The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync
was
a problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go
from play to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually
Ampex devised a quad machine that would do instant starts, first used
on
the Andre Previn concerts.

Was that the AVR1?


Possibly, sounds vaguely familiar. To be honest I don't really know, I
was
on the gallery end of the chain and it was just VT69 (or whatever) as far
as
I was concerned.

--
Graeme Wall
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Transport Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/index.html
And , of course, 'it was all right leaving you', Graeme....
Brian

In message
"BH Williams" wrote:


"Graeme Wall" wrote in message
[snip]

Possibly, sounds vaguely familiar. To be honest I don't really know, I
was on the gallery end of the chain and it was just VT69 (or whatever) as
far as I was concerned.

And , of course, 'it was all right leaving you', Graeme.... Brian


Of course! I used to know that phrase in Russian, relic of an early
satellite tx.

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Graeme Wall
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