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Photo and firmware disassembly
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This prompted the purchase of a second JVC SVHS recorder. The original model had been discontinued so a comparable model was bought, the {{unsure|BR-S800}}, which also featured an RS232 link through which it was envisaged that [[BBC Schedula]] could play out material out of hours - this wasn't implemented. | This prompted the purchase of a second JVC SVHS recorder. The original model had been discontinued so a comparable model was bought, the {{unsure|BR-S800}}, which also featured an RS232 link through which it was envisaged that [[BBC Schedula]] could play out material out of hours - this wasn't implemented. | ||
Finally, at great expense, the original PRO machine and newer recorder were renamed as VTA and VTB and joined by | [[Image:rmg800u|right|thumb|160px|SVHS shuttle controller]] | ||
Finally, at great expense, the original PRO machine and newer recorder were renamed as VTA and VTB and joined by an RMG800U edit controller. Initially this caused great problems as the tape tension was wrong on the PRO machine after a recent servicing at Savilles in Nether Poppleton, this took several more trips back to get corrected. Both [[Lolita]] and [[Vanbrugh Paradise]] made use of the new kit, partly because the version of Adobe Premiere on the Mac tended to lose lipsync with longer clips. | |||
The shuttle controller behaved much like the [[Sony Umatic]] one which had preceded it, only this controller used a single jog controller and A/B switch rather than two jog controllers. However, the firmware in the RMG800U was missing one glaring feature, that was the ability to do subtractive edits (where the two out points are set, then one in point is set). Fortunately the controller used an NEC 78k clone (78214) so its ROMs were extracted and disassembled by [[Rob Sprowson]], but time ran out and the patch was never finished before graduation. | |||
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