[Tig] AMPEX D-1 tape issues

[james at oldtvgear.com]

>I think it was D1 that was used in the AMPEX LMS library systems that our 
>tv station used back in the early to late 90's, they were always "banding" 
>on air - they had 5 or 6 of these machines and each machine sent out a 
>different commercial feed to the different viewing areas in the state 
>(victoria, australia) but the local news which was pre-recorded 5 times for 
>each viewing area, was also put into the machines and i dont know how many 
>times the whole broadcast went to air with a digital audio breakup and this 
>banding across the screen where previous frames were stuck superimposed 
>like in horizontal bands over the moving vision underneath - though i must 
>admit it looked quite funny when the newsreader was talking and the band 
>stuck over his eyes and his lips were still moving underneath or vicer 
>versa.....i think not long after this fiasco they finally got rid of the 
>ampex system and went to media servers...
>