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I joined in October 1996, and they were certainly letters by then. The only flirt with numbers I recall was when I bought a pile of identical VHS recorders for tape copying, TS1/TS2/TS3 ('the stack' or 'tape suite' as you prefer) [[User:Sprow|Sprow]] 07:57, 31 May 2007 (BST) | I joined in October 1996, and they were certainly letters by then. The only flirt with numbers I recall was when I bought a pile of identical VHS recorders for tape copying, TS1/TS2/TS3 ('the stack' or 'tape suite' as you prefer) [[User:Sprow|Sprow]] 07:57, 31 May 2007 (BST) | ||
[[Image:19950529_goodricke-studio_emma-winter.jpg|thumb|left|May 1995]] | |||
Here is a picture from May 1995 (I am so in trouble now). It is the only clear shot of the labels I can find. Someone must have changed them between those dates. --[[User:Otd|Owain]] 21:04, 31 May 2007 (BST) | Here is a picture from May 1995 (I am so in trouble now). It is the only clear shot of the labels I can find. Someone must have changed them between those dates. --[[User:Otd|Owain]] 21:04, 31 May 2007 (BST) | ||
[[Image: | [[Image:En94 015.jpeg|thumb|right|Election night]] | ||
In the original scan of (right) you can read the names of the machines (on yellow LX tape), as they were at EN 1993.[[User:Richardash1981|Richardash1981]] 22:40, 2 June 2007 (BST) | |||
OK, So in the scanned image, they are A / B / C (C being the non-edit machine). But when I watch the Reopening promo, I see that the odd machine out is VT1 in the footage of the new control room. [[Image:Reopening-VT1.jpeg|thumb|left|reopening]] So the answer appears to be that OBs went there own sweet way as compared to studio for a while (other photos from EN 94 have monitors for VT A, B and C, and in the EN 93 monitor bank shot you can't read the monitor names, but the "what's on air" display visible on one is showing VTA, so presumably they were on letters for OBs at least). [[User:Richardash1981|Richardash1981]] 15:08, 8 July 2007 (BST) | |||
Latest revision as of 14:08, 8 July 2007
In 1995 there is a photo of the decks labelled VT0 and VT3, VT1 was the Umatic that no one used and VT2 was the VHS or what later became the SVHS. So when did the ident system change?
I joined in October 1996, and they were certainly letters by then. The only flirt with numbers I recall was when I bought a pile of identical VHS recorders for tape copying, TS1/TS2/TS3 ('the stack' or 'tape suite' as you prefer) Sprow 07:57, 31 May 2007 (BST)
Here is a picture from May 1995 (I am so in trouble now). It is the only clear shot of the labels I can find. Someone must have changed them between those dates. --Owain 21:04, 31 May 2007 (BST)
In the original scan of (right) you can read the names of the machines (on yellow LX tape), as they were at EN 1993.Richardash1981 22:40, 2 June 2007 (BST)
OK, So in the scanned image, they are A / B / C (C being the non-edit machine). But when I watch the Reopening promo, I see that the odd machine out is VT1 in the footage of the new control room.
So the answer appears to be that OBs went there own sweet way as compared to studio for a while (other photos from EN 94 have monitors for VT A, B and C, and in the EN 93 monitor bank shot you can't read the monitor names, but the "what's on air" display visible on one is showing VTA, so presumably they were on letters for OBs at least). Richardash1981 15:08, 8 July 2007 (BST)