[BC] Language

[Alan Kline]

Ah, there's truly nothing new under the sun, is there?

Our Harris (ex-Louth) TV automation still uses "threaded", 
"unthreaded", and similar tape terminology, even though we've moved 
into the server age. I think it has much to do with the fact that the 
original code base for the system (what little original code remains) 
was written for tape-based systems, and has never progressed. While 
we do have a few VTR's tied into the system for server ingest, the 
use of tape terms for the on-air playout seems a bit archaic.

And in our shop, a few old terms linger. The videotape area is still 
referred to occasionally as "projection", even though the last film 
chains have been gone for more than a decade. And on top of that, the 
short DVCPRO tapes we use, for material we don't retain after air, 
are referred to as "projection tapes"--a conflict of terms from the 
beginning...

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Kevin Tekel wrote:
>Fred Gleason wrote:
>>It's scary how reality imitates art.  I can remember as far back as the
>>early nineties where my sister-in-law would refer to Nintendo game
>>cartridges (essentially, a ROM chip on a plug-in card) as a "tape", as
>>in "I need to return the Nintendo tapes to the rental place today".
>>She speaks in the exact same way today about DVDs.
>I've noticed that "rewind" seems to have become a permanent part of our
>lexicon even when there's no longer any tape to wind back onto a spool.
>Somehow "fast reverse" just doesn't have the same ring to it.  And "tape"
>is still often used as a synonymous with "to record" or "recording,"
>especially in reference to video, as in "we got it on tape" or "during
>the taping of the show."