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The broadcast "quality" (whatever that means since it has no definition standard) of the PAR and the UVW-1800 is well documented. First the, the PAR was used in an animation last year (amiga version) to lay work to a BVW series recorder and it happened to win an award. It was a State of Florida commercial titled "Fresh to You" Second I have been using the combo here since March and the only questions that ever came up has been from people like yourself that arn't in a position to evaluate first hand the quality of the output. You will also find others that have a substantial $ investment in the higher end Abekas and BVW series decks will vehemently talk the PAR down as not being capable of broadcast "quality". In my opinion these are the BVW/abekas snobs and have obvious investments to protect. As a personal example: I won a bid for an animation job that was shown to an audience of 3000 on a 20 foot screen. This same animation was then used in a series on commercials shown on the local broadcast stations for the past 60 days. The client has returned to have me do a new piece for another meeting that I delivered yesterday. They are very pleased with the way my animation projected. This was a far more stringent requirement for video quality than broadcast ever is. Recommendations: Make sure you get the remote shuttle controller so you can jog shuttle the UVW, unless, you have an RS-422 edit controller to do this. It is not necessary to get the TBC remote unless you are constantly taking in other's video that is screwed up. Otherwise you may need this. The remote is very simple circuit and I built my own here because I do use other's source beta tapes. The PAR with the Micropolis 2210A is a top performer. Some have reported problems with the 2217A drive but I'm not sure that it's the drive or just coincidence and operator SNAFU. Haven't heard any problems with the 2210A. Good luck.