US TV standards haven't changed that much.

Post #259,547 by Another Scott 6/21/06 11:28:44 AM Reply	US TV standards haven't changed that much. A 1969 NTSC (i.e. US) TV should still be able to receive (non-HD) over-the-air NTSC broadcasts just fine. [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC\|NTSC] is NTSC. Now the tapes I have no doubt would not play in a recent VCR if it's anything like an [link\|http://www.cedmagic.com/history/ampex-signature-v.html\|Ampex Signature V]. My guess is that if the tapes are good and the tape player still works then he can feed the output signal from the player into a PC with a video capture card and save it to a MPEG4 or similar format. Alternatively, he could just grab it off of [link\|http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4166049933953240830&q=neil+armstrong+apollo+11\|video.google.com] or similar places. It's likely to be in higher quality than his tapes. HTH a bit. Cheers, Scott.
Post #259,548 by andread 6/21/06 11:41:48 AM Reply	Re: US TV standards haven't changed that much. tapes are reel-to-reel don't know the width or any other details yet am told that they wouldn't play on a contemporary TV but would play on a 1969 TV thanks for the video capture idea that might be good A Play I Some Music w/ Papa Andy Saturday 8 PM - 11 PM ET All Night Rewind 11 PM - 5 PM Reggae, African and Caribbean Music [link\|http://wxxe.org\|Tune In]
Post #259,551 by SpiceWare 6/21/06 12:22:57 PM Reply	it'll play on a current TV NTSC was designed to be backward compatible with the B&W broadcasts that came before. From the wiki article Another Scott linked to: The committee in March 1941 issued a technical standard for black and white television. ... In March 1953 it unanimously approved what is now called simply the NTSC color television standard, later defined as RS-170a. The updated standard retained full backwards compatibility with older black and white television sets. So anything broadcast in 69 can be displayed by a TV built after March 1941 thru anything built today as HDTVs include an NTSC tuner. That said, I have noticed my HDTV is a bit less forgiving of out-of-spec signals. I tried my Atari 2600 on my set and most games came out in black & white as the way it generates the color signal isn't exactly right. Also a portion of the games had a scrambled signal, most likely caused by the games sending too many or too few scan lines. This is possibly because the sync signals(and thus scan line count) are totally controlled by the game code. I doubt the scan line count would be an issue with a broadcast from 69, though the the way it recorded color may have issues like the 2600. Darrell Spice, Jr. Trendy yet complex\nPeople seek me out - though they're not sure why\n[link\|http://spiceware.org/gallery/ArtisticOverpass\|Artistic Overpass] [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare]
Post #259,592 by jbrabeck 6/21/06 4:07:56 PM Reply	Tapes may have deteriorated. I had a bunch of RTR tapes that I record while stationed in Germany in the 70s. Tried to play some of them and the magnetic part of the tape feel off the backing. IIRC tape life expectance is/was only 10 years. fwiw, this was the "good" 3M tape stock too. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. (Herm Albright)
Post #259,631 by folkert 6/21/06 7:13:27 PM Reply	If it is a 1in Tape format in the 17 degree raster format There are players available that hook up to modern video editing equipment. I know this because my Step Father had it done recently. I think it was 17 degree. But I don know that it was 1" tape. -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* Freedom is not FREE. Yeah, but 10s of Trillions of US Dollars? SELECT * FROM scog WHERE ethics > 0; 0 rows returned.

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