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"Stephen Furley" wrote:


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?


Possibly, sounds vaguely familiar. To be honest I don't really know, I was
on the gallery end of the chain and it was just VT69 (or whatever) as far as
I was concerned.

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