Ampex training tape for the operation of the VR-2000 Quad VTR, part 1

Ampex training on the operation of the VR-2000 2" Quad VTR, part 1

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Science & Technology

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• Ampex
• Quad
• television
• quadruplex

[jaworskij]

@toresbe , this is 16 mm film. These people who had to maintain this equipment didn't have Youtube or the Internet to rely on like we have today. They had to be trained by another from the station.

[RetroToledo]

@pvx I grew up when they were just going out.

[toresbe]

@pvx Not at all! This is a video about vintage broadcast tech. Nitpicking is entirely welcome and fitting :) I do believe you might be correct.

[pvx]

@toresbe Not to nitpick or be too annoyingly pedantic, but it has all the tell-tale signs of a kinescope: film scratches and dust at the beginning credits, the somewhat-hazy and less fluid motion quality (due to 60 interlaced fields of video a second having to be converted to 24 film frames a second), and overall lower detail and contrast than a film shot optically with a motion picture camera (more at par of a film shot from a CRT display, which is how most kinescopes were made then).

[pvx]

@RetroToledo Ahh, yes, that would make sense, considering projectors were much more common in those days...

[RetroToledo]

@pvx Probably made better sense to have it on film if they could run it on a regular film projector in a classroom setting.

[stormsirens2BACKUP]

I hope to get one of theses big VTRs one day

[kct1975]

Very interesting to see how old technology worked!

[toresbe]

Thanks for the upload! Great that it's out there for curious onlookers.

This certainly doesn't look like a kinescope to me...

[RetroToledo]

@pvx I suppose putting it on film made it easier to distribute this if they didn't have to play it on the machine itself.