All of the RCA studio cameras that I maintained came with the RM529. They
had a large circular connector to connect them to the CCU.
I don't remember the model of the Monochrome camera I serviced in the '70s
for the Army, but the color Cameras at WACX were TK46A, a beautiful four
Plumicon design.
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On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:49 PM stevenhorii <sonodocsch@...> wrote:
Roy,
If you do any standard-definition TV (SDTV) work - such as converting older
videocassette or other SDTV recordings to DVD, both a waveform monitor and
vectorscope would be useful. A timebase corrector might also be helpful.
All of this stuff can now be obtained at relatively low cost. But I don't
know of non-SDTV uses for these items. It's too bad because they are great
instruments. I had a Tektronix 1900 and then a 1910 TV signal generator.
These had digital signal generation but converted to analog output for
driving monitors and the like for testing. Tektronix had quite a product
line to support the television industry. Tektronix equipment (along with
Grass Valley Group which Tektronix acquired) was likely in almost every TV
studio in the US. I think the huge 2" quad video machines came with a
Tektronix waveform monitor and vector monitor installed in them, at least
the vintage RCA and Ampex ones I have seen did.
There must be some collectors or users of SDTV stuff out there. I have seen
prices of the old Sony U-Matic machines (the studio ones) sell for higher
prices than one would expect (the broadcast version of the Sony U-Matic
machine - the BVU-950 - sells for over $2000). Even the Sony BVH-3100
one-inch C-format machines sell for over $1000 (on eBay) and shipping for
these things would be a quarter to half of that cost.
Steve H.
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 3:19 PM Roy Thistle <roy.thistle@...>
wrote:
Hi All:
I am getting one.
My question is... what do I (What can I) do with it?...I know it is/was
intended for monitoring the NTSC television broadcast signal.
I do have a pdf of the user/service manual.
Michael A. Terrell