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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 22, 2012 22:25:23 GMT
Not quite!  The Telcan, introduced in 1963, was priced around £61 19s, which would be just over £1000 in today's money. |
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 22, 2012 22:25:58 GMT
Sorry Nicholas, but that is rather ridiculous! ;D Well Iam sorry if I offended and certainly didn't mean to imply anything illegal however in "wiped" book it states that some Dr.Who prints did manage to get out of the BBC somehow, just wondered if that would explain how.For the record yes Iam rather ridiculous ;D Well hmmm...is it possible there was someone working with material which was slated to be junked, and they happened to know a film collector who might want the stuff? Surely things like that happened once they reached the landfill (that's how The Lion was recovered) But maybe one or two could have gone walkies even before that point? |
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 22, 2012 22:26:40 GMT
Not quite! The Telcan, introduced in 1963, was priced around £61 19s, which would be just over £1000 in today's money. The machine I saw was the size of a fridge. Maybe it was introduced in the 1950s? |
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 22, 2012 22:33:21 GMT
Not quite! The Telcan, introduced in 1963, was priced around £61 19s, which would be just over £1000 in today's money. Ah! The machine I was looking at was earlier and bigger. An Ampex From wikipedia - The "Quad" head assembly had four heads that rotated at 14,400 rpm. They wrote the video vertically across the width of a tape that was 2 inches (5 cm) wide and ran at 15 inches (38 cm) per second. This allowed hour-long television programs to be recorded on one reel of tape. In 1956, one reel of tape cost $300, and the recorders cost about $75,000 to $100,000. What I've always been curious to find out is exactly what in the world my uncle had. He got a kit for Christmas in 1969. It was self assembled and VTR. He had it until at least the early 80s, and had some tapes for it until the late 80s. |
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 22, 2012 22:37:32 GMT
I thought you were talking about something that could be used at home! The Ampex is what they used to record the master videotapes in the first place. |
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Post by Charles Daniels on Feb 22, 2012 22:40:01 GMT
I thought you were talking about something that could be used at home! I wasn't aware that a home format was available prior to about 1965 or so. So the Telcan is an interesting machine to hear about! A real monster that thing! Awesome piece of kit |
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 22, 2012 22:43:05 GMT
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Post by Brad Phipps on Feb 22, 2012 23:48:55 GMT
But maybe one or two could have gone walkies even before that point? Only in Francis Watson recovering DMP2-type situations. Being asked to clean out a room and having the opportunity is different from being asked to officially destroy something. When prints are ordered for destruction they're put through a bansaw with more than one person in the room (for safety purposes) who then have to sign a document saying they destroyed the print. If you want to say that four people were ordered to destroy The Dalek Master Plan viewing prints then each of them made off with three prints each you can believe that, but for the sake of their jobs it's likely they were properly destroyed. |
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Post by Brad Phipps on Feb 22, 2012 23:51:40 GMT
It's entirely possible someone slipped one into their bag going out the door cos they like that serial so much, but we'd never know - it's been 40 years since they started junking.
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Post by dennywilson on Feb 26, 2012 8:04:34 GMT
Not quite! The Telcan, introduced in 1963, was priced around £61 19s, which would be just over £1000 in today's money. How much would tape have been and what length? |
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Post by Richard Bignell on Feb 26, 2012 8:06:32 GMT
The Telcan recorded for 15 minutes I think. No idea of the tape cost.
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