On Jan 11, 7:02*pm, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
On 1/11/2011 7:27 PM, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

* * 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.

Back in 1970 I took course "TV production" in my Senior year.
We had a nice 1" tape deck and a mixer/fader console along with
two dolly mounted cameras.

By 1971, the students had trahed enough of the equipment, so
that they were using a 1/2" Sone deck and hand helds on tripods.

Sigh, what a waste of studio grade gear.

Jeff

The 1" decks you refer to are not the 1" machines used in broadcast.
The broadcast flavor was the late '70s SMPTE C format built by Ampex,
Sony, RCA, Hitachi and NEC but mostly Ampex and Sony. Did I miss any?

G²