RWels
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Post by RWels on Mar 26, 2017 9:39:44 GMT
But is this fully prerecorded, or a bit of an inside job? The description mentions an engineer and off-air. Prerecorded N1500 did exist, just not a lot. Even now totally forgotten formats sometimes had prerecorded tapes, a year or more ago there was an example posted here of a Frankie Howard show on even obscurer format with laser read pictures.
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Post by Gary Critcher on Mar 27, 2017 8:35:20 GMT
I agree, it looks to me like a normal off-air recording, only done by someone who was employed at Thames and got hold of one of their old cassettes to use at home.
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Post by RWels on Mar 27, 2017 11:42:52 GMT
Not a dream.
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Post by Gary Critcher on Mar 28, 2017 10:22:00 GMT
& I bet they cost an absolute fortune!
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Post by John Smith on Mar 28, 2017 19:32:59 GMT
The Dennis Norden one is a demo tape, i have one here
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Post by Mark Tinkler on Mar 29, 2017 13:43:15 GMT
Blimey - did he? Denis (note the one 'n'!) did one for laserdisc as well...
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Post by John Smith on Mar 30, 2017 21:34:29 GMT
There you go
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Post by Matthew Brannigan on Apr 1, 2017 9:23:15 GMT
Once the N1700 tapes got going the quality was really very good indeed but there was always a "chewy bit" at the beginning on most tapes I've encountered where the first two minutes are a mess. Every time I see an 80's (or even 90's) N1700 tape recording I think "Argh, what awesomeness did they wipe over to tape that!" as 1983 is definitely the arse-end of N1700 usage - my school replaced their two machines in late 1982 with Betamax and I suspect many schools did the same around this time.
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Post by Richard Marple on Apr 1, 2017 11:03:47 GMT
I remember hearing of someone who bought a load of N1500 tapes with promising BBC labels only to find they had stuff from the mid 1990s on them!
I'm a little guilty of buying some tapes from a car boot sale in 2004 & reusing some of them, though I did extract some interesting continuity from them before.
If You Tube & capture cards had been around them I might have saved the ad breaks as well. Some of them I never fully used so there might be something to salvage.
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Post by Richard Marple on Apr 2, 2017 9:13:41 GMT
Some high spec V2000 machines had an auto reverse features & some late ones could double the duration.
Also they had auto tracking as standard, years before VHS did.
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Post by brianfretwell on Apr 2, 2017 17:14:16 GMT
I seem to remember the heads were mounted on peitzo electric crystals so they could be moved slightly in response to the level of the signal on the tape (or was it an extra signal that was added in different phases on adjacent tracks) so the head could LAO be kept on the right track in freeze frame mode.
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Post by Nick Cooper on Apr 3, 2017 16:17:21 GMT
You have probably heard of the Philips 2000 system which was literally out of this world- a cassette that you could flip over and play down the otherside 4x hours per side, combined with noiseless freeze and speed frames and a clever search marker.. When Sony retired Betamax with their tail between their legs they combined the good bits of Betamax and the good bits of the 2000 to produce the Betacam system which revolutionised outside broadcast video filming. Betacam was introduced in 1982 - long before the end of Betamax production. It was the high-band replacement for U-matic, and owed little if anything to VCC.
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Post by edstradling on Apr 4, 2017 14:07:11 GMT
I recently saw some 1991 recordings on Philips, I couldn't believe my eyes!
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Post by mattchurchett on Apr 4, 2017 20:29:48 GMT
Always makes me smile when I come across more recent recording on out of date formats. I've seen 2001 recording on Betamax, and I've found mid 90's recordings on V2000.
I guess if people have spent a lot of money on a certain format, then they want to get their money's worth out of it
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Post by Robert Lia on Apr 4, 2017 22:52:44 GMT
I actually had a working Sony Super Betamax till 2004 and had brand new tape so I used the line in from the satellite to make some very high quality Beta II recordings
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