EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!

<https://www2.ppauctions.com/auction/365/bbc-archives-phase-3?perpage=30
&sort=TIME_ASC&view=LIST&page=20>

or

https://tinyurl.com/kn2n3eem
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On 06/03/2023 22:34, tony sayer wrote:
>
> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!
>
>
> <https://www2.ppauctions.com/auction/365/bbc-archives-phase-3?perpage=30
> &sort=TIME_ASC&view=LIST&page=20>
>
> or
>
>
> https://tinyurl.com/kn2n3eem

There are some more studer reel-to-reel (broken) tape
machines on page 16

Blimey, are they gold plated?
Brian

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"Andrew" <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> On 06/03/2023 22:34, tony sayer wrote:
>>
>> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
>> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!
>>
>>
>> <https://www2.ppauctions.com/auction/365/bbc-archives-phase-3?perpage=30
>> &sort=TIME_ASC&view=LIST&page=20>
>>
>> or
>>
>>
>> https://tinyurl.com/kn2n3eem
>
> There are some more studer reel-to-reel (broken) tape
> machines on page 16

Brian Gaff <brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:

> Blimey, are they gold plated?
> Brian

No, but they were well made and in small quantities. Because of that
they were never cheap but I suspect they have now become 'cult' items.

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I would like to know why the BBC possessed so many video
cassette recorders and players. Loads of Sony Betamax
recorders too.

The record decks mentioned by the OP look as though they
are earthquake-proof, complete with their own very-solid
looking floor-mounted stands.

Andrew

On 08/03/2023 09:32, Brian Gaff wrote:
> Blimey, are they gold plated?
> Brian
>

On 08/03/2023 12:11, Andrew wrote:
> I would like to know why the BBC possessed so many video
> cassette recorders and players. Loads of Sony Betamax
> recorders too.
>
The ones I noticed were all digital Betamax, not analogue. They are also
selling some cameras of the same format. At the beginningof the digital
era, these gave better quality than even high band analogue such as U-Matic.

The ones I wuold be interested in are the DV-Cam recorders, but it
wouo,d cost me far more to go and fetch them than I'd pay for the lot.

As all the equipment is from their archive department, they were
probably copying the digital stuff to hard drive as quickly as possible,
one operator can deal with a number of streams being copied at once, and
the machines were relatively cheap.

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In article <gc375aTgpmBkFwmp@bancom.co.uk>,
tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!

I remember, at Thames TV, seeing EMT turntables in the skip. No one wanted
them, even free.

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In article <k6rf1qF3m9rU1@mid.individual.net>,
John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
> The ones I noticed were all digital Betamax, not analogue. They are also
> selling some cameras of the same format. At the beginningof the digital
> era, these gave better quality than even high band analogue such as U-Matic.

Eh? Betamax was analogue. Panasonic similar¶was MII. Both were used to
replace the earlier C Format 1" reel to reel. U-Matic was only ever a news
format.

Cassette video recorders were used as a sound only digital recorder by
recording the digital audio as a video signal, though.

Digi-Beta was the Sony pro digital tape format - and very good to.

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Andrew <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> wrote:

[...]
> The record decks mentioned by the OP look as though they
> are earthquake-proof, complete with their own very-solid
> looking floor-mounted stands.

They are extremely heavy - I know because I have had to move one. The
direct drive motor is a curious affair, being driven by a very low
frequency four-phase oscillator that really needs to be set up with a
twin-beam oscilloscope.

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In article <5a81fd2941dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News)
<dave@davenoise.co.uk> scribeth thus
>In article <gc375aTgpmBkFwmp@bancom.co.uk>,
> tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
>> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!
>
>
>I remember, at Thames TV, seeing EMT turntables in the skip. No one wanted
>them, even free.
>

Well Two have just gone for just over a thousand inc buyers premium and
a Nagra went for 16K odd !!!!!

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In article <$gI8GJAQCeCkFwfA@bancom.co.uk>, tony sayer
<tony@bancom.co.uk> scribeth thus
>In article <5a81fd2941dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News)
><dave@davenoise.co.uk> scribeth thus
>>In article <gc375aTgpmBkFwmp@bancom.co.uk>,
>> tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
>>> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!
>>
>>
>>I remember, at Thames TV, seeing EMT turntables in the skip. No one wanted
>>them, even free.
>>
>
>Well Two have just gone for just over a thousand inc buyers premium and
>a Nagra went for 16K odd !!!!!
>

Silly me that should have read £7,000 for the EMT's!!!

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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

tony sayer wrote:

> In article <5a81fd2941dave@davenoise.co.uk>, Dave Plowman (News)
> <dave@davenoise.co.uk> scribeth thus
> > In article <gc375aTgpmBkFwmp@bancom.co.uk>,
> > tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >> EMT turntables going for a grand or two plus premium and VAT items
> >> 331,319,338 to 341 Nagra tape machine at 5,000 odd currently!
> >
> >
> > I remember, at Thames TV, seeing EMT turntables in the skip. No one
> > wanted them, even free.
> >
>
> Well Two have just gone for just over a thousand inc buyers premium
> and a Nagra went for 16K odd !!!!!

I have 2 of those Nagras TAs! Not with a monitor bridge though.

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I have a slightly non working Betamax machine if anyone wants one.
It is worth realising that many Sony Betamax machines could be paired with
a digital box to record and play very good sounding digital content.
Now hey they used these and not DAT, I'm not sure, cost probably.
Brian

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"Andrew" <Andrew97d@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I would like to know why the BBC possessed so many video
> cassette recorders and players. Loads of Sony Betamax
> recorders too.
>
> The record decks mentioned by the OP look as though they
> are earthquake-proof, complete with their own very-solid
> looking floor-mounted stands.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 08/03/2023 09:32, Brian Gaff wrote:
>> Blimey, are they gold plated?
>> Brian
>>
>

The reason for the digital to video conversion box was that they hadn't
invented DAT yet.

The reason for using Betamax tapes was that Betamax had a better video
bandwidth than VHS.

The problem now is that some very important masters now only exist on
the Betamax tapes, nobody is making the heads any more, and the expected
head life of the entire world stock of new old stock heads is less than
the amount of tape that needs to be transcribed.

On 10/03/2023 12:25, Brian Gaff wrote:
> I have a slightly non working Betamax machine if anyone wants one.
> It is worth realising that many Sony Betamax machines could be paired with
> a digital box to record and play very good sounding digital content.
> Now hey they used these and not DAT, I'm not sure, cost probably.
> Brian
>

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