One-inch VTR, a professional-grade video tape format in the ’70s, revolutionized broadcasting, offering high-quality recordings pivotal in early television production.
Let me introduce you to our old friend. This machine gets its own page on our web-site – it is good to highlight because they are now hard to find. Students who have never seen (or sometimes it seems, even heard of video tape) are amazed when they see what they regard as a dinosaur come to life.
But in fact, many archive libraries still have 1 inch tapes.
Our one-inch recorder is about 45 years old. We keep it running in A1 condition.
We use it mainly to make digital copies, either onto tape or captured as a digital file. It is increasingly difficult to find one in reliable working order, which is one reason why ours is so popular. It is available to hire on-site for a day rate basis of £120.00. Occasionally it has gone out for a few days, but it requires special care.
The machine has a timebase corrector built in and so it is perfectly possible to digitise the programme directly. The actual video signal is composite. There are a bewildering number of digital formats and opinions will vary as to which is best to use for computer ingest. And of course over time this will change. Making a digibeta or beta SX copy at the same time can future proof your time and effort.
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