SHOMI??
Bill;
They brought it in yesterday and it was….. well dissapointing. At
first glance it passed video and the TBC did fine with a non capstan locked
3/4" machine. It even did OK in shuttle and search modes where some TBCs
just give up. On the signal processing side, though, it's another story.
The gain of the two inputs was 20 Units high and not adjustable while the
chroma could not even come close to 100% without severe distortion. To
make matters worse the distortion was completely different between the two
inputs one pulled red toward magenta the other pulled green toward cyan so
the two inputs could never be made to match one another.
Either this one was very screwed up or it's a bad box.
Sorry for the bad review, Keith