[Tig] RE: OT? Now memory lane, was New use for Ampex ACR-225

[Steven Bradford]

That's funny, I was thinking of that analyzer too?

Yeah, we had to run all the one inch tape past it, and get that little
report to tape to the case, it had a blade that scraped the tape
detritus off, and every once in ahwile a tape would fail. We didn't have
one for two inch tape that I remember. I think because a dropout was not
as large on the track percentage wise as it was in 1".

Yeah, I remember the spurious events we had to log.  I really got caught
up on a lot of the MGM library. It was interesting the differences
between films, some films just looked gorgeous, often a film that had
long been forgotten, while other films, often a famous one like Singing
in the Rain were not as good as they could have been, due to the quality
of the interneg. I think the first flying spot transfer of Gone With the
Wind for home video was done while we were there. From the 1967 1:85
release. It was sad that a film that was shot 1:33 ended up getting
cropped twice. Later Turner made a new negatives from the Technicolor 3
strip masters that fixed that. But I think the colorists who worked
there at the time did a great job with what they had. 

And then there were the newer ones, I think I saw the long Heavens Gate
a couple of dozen times at least!

Back to the equipment as heaters subject, yeah, even in the winter here,
we have to run the ac in our machine room. With a Flame and a Smoke, and
their associated storage area networks, plus the Ursa, it warms up fast.
Though I understand that AC units likely work more efficiently in the
winter, since they're transferring the heat to a colder outside, and
don't have to run as much? It'd be nice if I could just run the outside
air into the machine room with a fan, (filtered), but that'd be tough to
rig up.

Steve