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You won't see the defects until you play the tape - then it's too late. Streaks, flashes, "snow" and temporary dropouts are usually caused by wrinkles, creases, edge damage, loose oxide or other contaminants. When you play a damaged or defective tape, you look unprofessional and disappoint your viewers. And you could be wasting valuable time and money by recording on defective tapes. Furthermore, bad videotape can clog or misalign the video head of your player/recorder and cause expensive repairs.
The RTI Videotape Evaluator/Cleaner will let you know for sure whether or not a tape is defective . . . BEFORE it's too late . . . before an important recording is lost forever or costly retaping is required. And it will help prevent future damage to tapes and equipment. It allows you to manage videotapes in the professional way you may have thought impossible.
This new RTI system detects and counts physical tape defects, while simultaneously removing contaminants and polishing your tapes. And it does all this without affecting recorded signals on the tape. High Speed Performance With high-speed precision, the RTI system counts damage in the control, video and audio areas of the tape, and it shows the counts in large LED displays. The U-Matic model inspects and cleans your tapes at over 30 times normal play speed. A 20 minute tape can take less than a minute to inspect and clean. Beta and VHS models run at over 60 times the popular B-II and LP speeds. And it's fully automatic. All you do is drop in a cassette and push a button.
High speed performance is made possible by lab-standard excellence in design and construction. Special microprocessor programs monitor all critical functions of the RTI system. Even detector calibration
is monitored and can be displayed on the front panel readouts to insure accurate detection on all four channels. Precision Sapphire Burnishing Loose oxide (the leading contaminant of videotape) is removed by the RTI cleaning system. The sapphire burnisher thoroughly polishes the oxide for maximum tape performance. Loose dirt, oxide and other debris are wiped away from both sides of the tape by special cleaning tissues.
Comprehensive reports give you a hardcopy record of the tape's condition and the locations of all defects. It provides a complete recap of the digital displays, with separate columns showing control, video and audio track defects and oxide voids. You'll have instant management reports indicating whether or not the program portion of the tape is usable.
The reports also help you keep the data straight, since each printout is identified with the cassette number and evaluation date. It will provide you with both a quick defect data recap and a detailed defect location report, or either one depending on the amount of information you need.
In addition, various report formats can be selected with this versatile, software-controlled system.
No External Equipment
The Printer capability is
completely integrated into the RTI Evaluator/Cleaner
design and can be added easily at any time. No
external equipment or additional wiring is needed.
Printed report exits through the top of the cabinet for
easy access. And it's easy to set up; just load the
paper and advance it through the slot.
Picture breakup caused by wrinkles and creases has obliterated
an important part of this training tape
Here's what some professional users are saying about the RTI Professional Videotape Evaluator/Cleaner:
We really do like the RTI unit. It's very, very nice! We've cleaned and inspected our entire library of about
1,400 3/4" tapes. It performed consistently through continual eight-hour days of running until the job was
done. We're planning to purchase a 1/2 " unit in the near future.
Joe Davis, Orange County School Board,
Media Center, Orlando, Florida
I've heard nothing but good things from our news photographers about the RTI Evaluator Until now,
they've had no reliable way to know for sure if the tapes they were taking into the field for news stories were
good. And, when we pull an archival tape, we can run it through the RTI machine at high speeds and find
out the general condition of the tape while eliminating most of the temporary dropouts. Also important to us
is uniform tape packing and tension. With the RTI machine, the tapes come out smoothly packed and with
even tension . . . less damage to the tape . . . less damage to the equipment in the field and in the editing
room.
Ron Arendall, Chief Engineer, WI.HR-TV,
Indianapolis, Indiana
We have five RTI machines. We use them for cleaning and evaluating videocassette tapes for
telecommunications departments in the area. We can offer a fast turnaround because one operator can
work all Eve units simultaneously, the machines are so automatic.
Cliff Sawyer, Sawyer Camera, Los Angeles, Califomia
It saves us a lot of time. If we have a problem where our automated commercial insertion equipment is not
reading the time code in the tape, or we have a control track problem, we run the tape through the RTI
Evaluator and we know whether the problem is in the tape or in our computer We also use it for news tapes
to verify the condition of the tapes before the news crews go out.
Moses Primo, Chief Engineer, WSMW-TV, Worcester, Massachusetts
First we evaluated and cleaned our entire collection of 2,000 tapes. Now we inspect and clean every tape
before sending it out to user units. And tapes are inspected and cleaned when they're resumed. We also use
our RTI to verify tapes for the AV Production Section. Both blank and prerecorded tapes are verified on the
RTI machine.
Willie McGoughey, Ft. Carson, Colorado
We're a videotape duplication facility, and we offer a variety of production services. We're very happy
with the RTI unit. We use it to help locate tape problems after the fact and to pre-evaluate tapes used in
the field. It's used in our clients' tape recycling programs, and we offer it as a service to independent
producers and distributors.
Pete Vrettas, President, EDR Media, Cleveland, Ohio
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