Re: Feb 2009 legal or not legal

My reply at the bottom -

Charlie writes -
We had a tape turned down by one of the other TV stations stating it was not technically correct and would not playback on their machines.
My tape Operator told me to take a trip with him and we went to teh other station. He walked in sked if the tape loaded on their machine was running shortly, and was informed it didn't go for almost a half hour.
He took it down, purt up his "Ampex" test tape and set up their machine, put our tape on it played it back showed the guys it played good, took it down, set the machine back to where they had it set. Loaded their tape back up and turned to them and said don't ever send one of my tapes back saying it is no good.
As we were leaving they were going through their machine resetting it to proper standards

CHARLIE !!!
I used to do the same thing. I used to freelance as an engineer at MTI in NY on 47th St. Years later, A&E took over the facility, and used this as their facility (so I knew this facility). A&E rejected a client's tapes, so I dragged the tape, my client, and a calibrated Tektronix monitor in a cab over to 47th and 2nd Ave. I barged into the machine room, went up to a machine not in use, plugged in my scope, and insisted that their "QC expert" come on over and show me what was wrong with the tape. They were using an old AF Associates blanking meter, that had an LED readout of the blanking, and was not measuring with the expanded H display on the waveform. DONT EVER REJECT ONE OF MY TAPES UNTIL YOU LEARN HOW TO READ A G-D DAMN WAVEFORM MONITOR ! (hey, my client was going to kill me, I had to do something).

I LOVE THE FLAMINGO HOTEL, and have stayed there for the past 6 years at NAB.

bob Zelin