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[John Fox (foxy)]

Made a right !*!@# of that post did'na

[Andy Millne]

Made a right !*!@# of that post did'na

Fixed, though you should be able to edit for a short time after posting

[threegee]

One program that I do remember from the fifties and I am not sure if it was on the commercial channels or BBC, was a program called The Grove family, one of the main characters was Granny Grove,do you or anyone remember this program?

The Groves were defo on BBC! It would have been produced live too. In those days the only option to getting up in front of an on-air camera was a telecine, and the later cost real money; so you only filmed if you could resell it. It took the Beeb a long time to work out that their output could be sold to other TV broadcasters, or indeed was worth the expense of preserving.

As an aside, did you know that Tyne Tees TV had one of the very first video recorders, long before the mighty BBC? It was an american Ampex with 2 inch tape and almost filled an OB van. I was in the van when they were showing it off in London at "The Radio Show" exhibition one year. The cost then was massive - millions in today's money. The BBC wouldn't pay the money, though they played around with their own system for years before finaly abandoning it and buying commercial machines.

ITV companies had to embrace recorded TV very early on, because their advertising revenue depended on it, and they didn't have all the on-site production facilities the BBC had.

Nope! The above is a small modern one. The model that TTTV had is briefly shown here:-

http://youtu.be/-USmM6YDa-I

[John White]

Now you`ve started somthing Threegee.

This is the beauty I did my very first edit on;

Just listen to that Helical scan head drum. How geeky is that a comment!

The Shibaden SV 700. Only mono but steady as a rock! I`ve still got the BASF tape somewhere. Insert edit out was a bit tricky though. There was a 5 sec. difference between audio & video out.

Ironically the prog. was about leisure provision in the new WDC & featured footage of the new Ashington Leisure Centre.

I was a student, then technician in the TV Production unit at Ashington Tech when I first used this kit.

The 640 colour vtr:

http://3.bp.blogspot...510+A88+-+3.JPG

was rubbish.

Used to go through heads like nobodies business.

Made a packet for Tyne Video though!

I then progressed on to the Ampex 1" highband machine

http://www.rewindmus...ampexvr5003.jpg

Very Happy Days.

Many thanks to my old Lecturer Dave Rixon!

[John White]

Found a better SV700 clip. It has it`s clothes on this time:

A trained ear tells me this guy is running a damaged tape.