"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

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Michael A. Terrell wrote:
And you think the few cameras you've seen are suitable for judging
any system? Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they weren't
built. I was using an RCA TK-16 Vidicon camera in the service that was
built in the late '60s.

You appear only to have heard of RCA cameras.


Sigh. You appear to bbe an idiot. RCA & GE made most of the studio
cameras in the US. A few stations got screwed when they bought Philips
cameras that had no factory support and few spare parts.


Vidicon cameras were usable in low light, properly designed. Not
that the BBC was renowned for state of the art.

Really?


it makes as much sense as the bull**** you're posting.


I saw one of the first
single gun color TV cameras in 1972/73, built by Magnavox for industrial
video applications. That was at Ft. Rucker, Al. where the video
production section was looking into newer cameras.

Can you name a broadcast use for a single tube colour camera? Apart from
stunt stuff where it would be destroyed.


Yes they were used for ENG before color CCD cameras were availible.


If you consider 2"
Ampex industrial video, you might argue. The mobile production units
were several tractor trailers full, and they had just bought the first
Tektronix U-matic decks built.

U-matic? Only ever used for news stuff here. And office viewing before VHS.

1" C Format ruled until the arrival of Beta SP and MII.


So, you used 2" until the other formats were availible? Umatic was
second generation video for use in classrooms, dubbed from the broadcast
grade masters. Long beofre VHS or any beta crap was availible. I used
1" Sony at WACX in orlando for the master edit suit. OTOH, I had 13
Sony U-Matics at the transmitter site for the LaCarte Video automation
system. WACX had better video quality than most of the other stations
in the market. The worst used Beta and it was obvious.


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