SilverWook said:
Mavimao said:
bilditup1 said:
Mavimao said:
The christmas special was shot on 70's era studio video cameras. (think soap operas). It's on magnetic tape not film.
Hmm, what kind of magnetic tape?
Perhaps 3/4 inch according to this site
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3/4 inch or "U-matic" as Sony called it, was barely broadcast standard. (Sony initially tried marketing it as a home video format a few years before they tried Betamax!) I used it in high school and college. It was popular because it was affordable for small tv stations and other budget minded institutions.
CBS and Fox could afford more expensive formats.
Ah thanks for the clarification. I'm not very familiar with broadcast material - especially old vintage equipment.
But enough about the x-mas special...
Puggo! This transfer is awesome. Plain and simple. As someone stated above, this is much cleaner than SW and yet still retains that 16mm awesomeness.
I noticed that the mono sound kinda clips at times. Sounds like someone years ago did a poor job mastering the audio for 16mm optical (which has a piss poor dynamic range of about 20 dB)