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about the sony machine the station had. Great, more than one open reel machine ....
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A slightly grand term for a pile of mixed format tapes. | A slightly grand term for a pile of mixed format tapes. | ||
YSTV has video archive material dating back to the mind 1970s at the moment, although we can't play anything older than about 1984. Any contributions of material, or help accessing older formats would be greatly appreciated. In total | YSTV has video archive material dating back to the mind 1970s at the moment, although we can't play anything older than about 1984. Any contributions of material, or help accessing older formats would be greatly appreciated. In total 8 analogue and 3.5 digital formats are represented in the archive. | ||
== Legacy Formats == | == Legacy Formats == | ||
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Current tapes dated between about 1975 and 1980. 10 inch (2400 foot long) metal reels of 1 inch wide video tape. Marked simply I.V.C. and a tape number, from which I presume they were recorded on an International Video Corporation machine. Luckily all the 1" IVC machines are supposed to be compatible in terms of on-tape format, so we don't need to know which was used to record it. GTV in Birmingham are believed to have a working [http://www.labguysworld.com/IVC-700.htm IVC700], efforts have started to see if we can get the tapes to it and extract the contents. | Current tapes dated between about 1975 and 1980. 10 inch (2400 foot long) metal reels of 1 inch wide video tape. Marked simply I.V.C. and a tape number, from which I presume they were recorded on an International Video Corporation machine. Luckily all the 1" IVC machines are supposed to be compatible in terms of on-tape format, so we don't need to know which was used to record it. GTV in Birmingham are believed to have a working [http://www.labguysworld.com/IVC-700.htm IVC700], efforts have started to see if we can get the tapes to it and extract the contents. | ||
=== Sony Rover Open Reel === | === Sony 1" Open Reel === | ||
These have similar dates to the IVC tapes, but are shorter 5 inch spools of 1/2 inch tape. Marked only as Sony Rover, they are presumed to come from one of the widespread Sony portable machines of the date, most of which conformed to the EIJA standard and so had interchangeable tapes. [[Stoic]] have one of these machines, but it doesn't work. Negotiations to try and get it working and in use are ongoing - they managed to dub their archive to Umatic before it gave out. | The same physical tapes as the IVC ones, but a different machine. [[Tom Whitehouse]] recalls a Sony machine with flying erase heads (i.e. an insert edit machine) with an external colour adaptor unit that was never used. This was probably a [http://www.brogers.addr.com/Web/EV320F.htm Sony EV-320F] (another picture [http://www.labguysworld.com/Sony_EV-320F.htm here]). Both the 1" machines were colour capable, interestingly. Obviously someone (probably in AV) had some ambitions to colour long before YSTV got there. | ||
=== Sony Rover 1/2" Open Reel === | |||
These have similar dates to the IVC tapes, but are shorter 5 inch spools of 1/2 inch tape. Marked only as Sony Rover, they are presumed to come from one of the widespread Sony portable machines of the date, most of which conformed to the EIJA standard and so had interchangeable tapes. [[Stoic]] have one of these machines, but it doesn't work. Negotiations to try and get it working and in use are ongoing - they managed to dub their archive to Umatic before it gave out. Pictures of the kind of machine concerned [http://www.labguysworld.com/Sony_AV-3400.htm here] and [http://www.brogers.addr.com/Web/AV3400.htm here] on the web. | |||
=== Umatic and Mmatic === | === Umatic and Mmatic === | ||
