1" videotape and othe formats that could provied better qualty image

[Telecolor 3007]

Hello. Where I can find clips with images recorded with 1" C "Sony" video machines and other video machines (open reel and cassette, includig Digital Betacam) that could provide for tv brodacastings better image then 2" Quad and Betacam, before the days of the the modern digital video.

[old_tv_nut]

I don't know, but even if you do find some, it's very possible the quality will not be original due to low bit rate digital encoding on YouTube or wherever you find them.

[Electronic M]

I own a 1" portable deck and some tapes. It's been on the back burner a couple of years but I plan to start trying to make it work fairly soon.

Youtube has been suggesting videos about quad and 1" to me lately and I have seen some footage originally from those machines lately...I think some of the better looking ones were BBC training videos for archival tape transfer work.

[ARC Tech-109]

Type-C was the source format used for Laserdisc glass mastering until the late 1980's, Pioneer marketed some specialty discs under the "Pioneer Artists" label with Windham Hill during the mid-80's that really shows the format capabilities. The one drawback however is they're all film-out to tape as they used a variety of film based cameras on location and the grain sometimes shows.
Short of finding a real "studio" original tape most everything is a generation or two behind regardless of the format. I do have a raw NASA recording of the shuttle explosion taped 1/28/86, its a parent tape I made so I know its real.

[Telecolor 3007]

But was 1" C capable of 400 lines?

[ARC Tech-109]

Easily 400 lines horizontal resolution, as I recall the -3db point is around 4.5 MHz for the video signal and something north of 50 db signal/noise ratio. Slightly better than Betacam but far more stable IMO, I'm going to let the experts here weight in on this.

[Chip Chester]

I have some 1" footage, ranging from spots shot on 35mm and transferred to video tape, to camera originals shot with either an Ikegami HL-79 or EC-35. Oh, and my wedding video -- a 3-camera 1" shoot with live switched master and iso-reels for each camera. Had all of it transferred to digital files before the local boys de-commissioned their 1" machines.

In other 1" news -- At NAB years back, I saw an analog Hi-Def demonstration using a modified Sony 1" machine. They had projection, plus feeds to their various 16:9 analog production and broadcast monitors. Very nice signal, and no color banding on sunsets, etc. like D2 exhibited. Fun times.

[ARC Tech-109]

Type-C with the high writing speed would have been a great digital platforms, I could see a true 16 bit 4:4:4 sampling for the video signal and 48k/20bit audio. No grayscale banding or blotchy colors, something.