[BC] cheap tv

[Tom]

Well, I'd probably want to at least upgrade Film 1 (and maybe Film 2) 
to something like the Rank Cinetel - a flying spot scanner seems so 
much easier to maintain, somehow... probably trade in the quads for 
some VPR-2s...  and the U-Matic decks HAVE to go....  maybe M-format 
for the ENG stuff.....

and get at least TK-44s... probably leave Film 3 as the pair of 
TP-66s and the FSP-2, with the TK-66 (IIRC) looking at the mirrors....

the GVG master and production switchers, though - stay.

Not sure about the video cart machines.....  (can I take the output 
from my laptop and play wmv files to air?)

And since I JUST upgraded the entire audio chain to  a Wheatstone 
console in Production and went stereo with the Optimod 8282....

<VBG>  (did I date myself enough?)

Alan Kline wrote:
>The nonsense about the costs of the digital conversion are just 
>that--nonsense.
>
>The majority of stations finished their build-out years ago. We did 
>ours in 2002, with the only costs since then adding two more 
>amplifier cabinets to the digital TX.