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Alan, You might check to see if there is a local Toaster Users Group in your area. If there is, there must be someone in the group willing to make you a tape of the test patterns for a small fee, if not, try posting a message in the Newtek area. I will keep my ears to the ground for the BVE-3000/a and parts thereof. The Y-688 I had sold in a heartbeat! Makes me wonder if I was pricing it too low, oh well, somebody got a good deal, and I was happy to make room for new gear to replace it. A suggestion you might want to consider, is to have the Y-688 ins and outs on your decks converted to Y-358. There is an outfit in Southern CA that has a kit for converting the outputs only, it sells for $150, and you need someone with some technical experience to do the install. For that matter, if you have someone with some expertise in broadcast engineering available, they can probably modify the ins as well as the outs for a good price (under $300 a deck sounds reasonable to me). I have had it done to one of my JVC 3/4 units and it's nice to be able to "bump" up from Hi-8 and "S" formats to 3/4SP through a newer model TBC that has more correcting range than 32 lines. If you decide go this route, you would have access to a ever growing selection of lower cost TBCs that have full frame/Freeze/Strobe options for about the same money you would probably dish out for a relatively featureless used Y-688 model.