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Post by Robbie Moubert on Mar 17, 2023 9:13:02 GMT
The only chance I see is if someone bought a Sony Umatic recorder in late 71 72 and happened to live abroad where Troughton was still being shown and was a fan of the show They'd also have needed a TV or external receiver with line out connections as a U-matic wouldn't have had a built-in tuner. |
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Post by Leighton Haberfield on Mar 21, 2023 9:11:42 GMT
The only chance I see is if someone bought a Sony Umatic recorder in late 71 72 and happened to live abroad where Troughton was still being shown and was a fan of the show They'd also have needed a TV or external receiver with line out connections as a U-matic wouldn't have had a built-in tuner. I am sure they would have had a TV, the whole point was to be able to record tv shows or am I missing something |
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Post by RWels on Mar 21, 2023 12:05:35 GMT
They'd also have needed a TV or external receiver with line out connections as a U-matic wouldn't have had a built-in tuner. I am sure they would have had a TV, the whole point was to be able to record tv shows or am I missing something Yes, the tuner part. You need to receive a station. I wonder how the Melbourne Man did it. |
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Post by peterconvery on Mar 21, 2023 22:14:00 GMT
I am sure they would have had a TV, the whole point was to be able to record tv shows or am I missing something Yes, the tuner part. You need to receive a station. I wonder how the Melbourne Man did it. Melbourne man - do you mean the one whose hoard was found recently- or the time waster who is supposed to have Marco Polo? Is there any evidence he does have it? |
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Post by RWels on Mar 22, 2023 10:05:22 GMT
Yes, the tuner part. You need to receive a station. I wonder how the Melbourne Man did it. Melbourne man - do you mean the one whose hoard was found recently- or the time waster who is supposed to have Marco Polo? Is there any evidence he does have it? The former, with the hoard. Must be practically the only person to use umatic just as a personal home video. He had several umatic decks and tapes, none ever taped over...! Didn't they say he had the older decks lined up under his house? |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Mar 23, 2023 11:13:47 GMT
Yes, he'd kept all his old machines. He'd even kept his old tram tickets and sweet wrappers! Regarding U-matic tapes and missing Troughton episodes, U-matic machines capable of recording Australian standard TV signals didn't become available until late 1973, after the last Australian broadcasts of missing Dr Who. Before that, the U-Matic machines sold here were built to American NTSC standards, and the people who used them (I'd guess ad agencies, film companies, CCTV contractors and the like) had to have NTSC televisions to view the recordings, and NTSC cameras to make them.
As for the tuner, he was an electronics hobbyist, so he could have modified an ordinary set to provide video and audio output for a recorder. Sound's easy, you just hook into the speaker circuit. Video's a bit more tricky, it has to come from the video detector half-way through the signal chain.
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Post by Peter Stirling on Mar 23, 2023 21:33:12 GMT
I am sure they would have had a TV, the whole point was to be able to record tv shows or am I missing something Yes, the tuner part. You need to receive a station. I wonder how the Melbourne Man did it. To enable a Umatic to play into a domestic TV it needed an RF board ...these were an optional (expensive) extra and so most of them did not have them as they were really commercial tools to be played on monitors. The other problem with a domestic TV of the time is that it was quite safe boxed up, but the majority were not electrically isolated so trying to shove a video baseband signal (used by a studio/VTR or camera) into it would have resulted in a bang. |
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Post by Sue Butcher on Mar 23, 2023 23:39:29 GMT
Almost all televisions made in Australia were electrically isolated from the mains, and had power transformers and earthed chassis, unlike sets made in the UK. Live chassis sets weren't actually illegal in the Seventies, and some imported examples were sold here, but they were frowned on from a great height. CRT sets do have high voltages inside. You have to know the set's internal layout to avoid an accident.
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