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Old February 7th 06, 06:58 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london
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Default "Death Line" 1972 (Film)


Graeme Wall wrote:

The 10 second run-up of a tape machine (or telecine) to achieve sync was a
problem until electronics were devised to enable the machines to go from play
to record on the fly at a predetermined point. Eventually Ampex devised a
quad machine that would do instant starts, first used on the Andre Previn
concerts.


Was that the AVR1?