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   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   SFTV_troy  wrote:   
      
   >On Jan 4, 7:44 pm, Anim8rFSK  wrote:   
   >>  SFTV_troy  wrote:   
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   >> > Oh Star Trek was definitely high-end: $1.5 million spent per episode.   
   >> > The original Betacam tapes are probably flawless, but Paramount   
   >> > decided to go with a cheap transfer when they created the DVDs.   
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   >> Why would there be Betacam tapes of TNG?   
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   >Because Betacam (or Betacam SP) was the dominant professional format   
   >of 1987, 88, and so on.  Was there another superior alternative they   
   >could have used to store the final, edited Video of the show?  I'm not   
   >aware of any.   
      
   The portable cams were all beta, but I thought that the studios all   
   used U-matic (the ancestor of VHS).  Was it a Beta or a U-matic that   
   Helen Hunt raced through the studio while the direcor yelled "We're   
   going to black on national network!" with?   
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