At Greatbear we have many, many machines. A small selection of our analogue video players, CRT monitors, cameras, cables and tapes recently found work as props (both functional and decorative) in the BBC documentary “Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art”, on BBC iPlayer here. From the BBC website: “Jim Moir, aka Vic… Continue reading Video Art & Machine Obsolescence
Tag: television and broadcast
New additions in the Greatbear Studio – BBC-adapted Studer Open reel tape machine
We recently acquired a new Studer open reel tape machine to add to our extensive collection of playback equipment. This Studer is, however, different from the rest, because it originally belonged to BBC Bristol. It therefore bears the hallmarks of a machine specifically adapted for broadcast use. The telltale signs can be found in customised… Continue reading New additions in the Greatbear Studio – BBC-adapted Studer Open reel tape machine
Going ‘tape-less’: AS-11 Digital Production Partnership standards
Is this the end of tape as we know it? Maybe not quite yet, but October 1, 2014, will be a watershed moment in professional media production in the UK: it is the date that file format delivery will finally ‘go tape-less.’ Establishing end-to-end digital production will cut out what is now seen as the… Continue reading Going ‘tape-less’: AS-11 Digital Production Partnership standards
‘Missing Believed Wiped’: The Search For Lost TV Treasures
Contemporary culture is often presented as drowning in mindless nostalgia, with everything that has ever been recorded circulating in a deluge of digital information. Whole subcultures have emerged in this memory boom, as digital technologies enable people to come together via a shared passion for saving obscurities presumed to be lost forever. One such organisation… Continue reading ‘Missing Believed Wiped’: The Search For Lost TV Treasures
2″ Quad Video Tape Transfers – new service offered
We are pleased to announce that we are now able to support the transfer of 2″ Quadruplex Video Tape (PAL, SECAM & NTSC) to digital formats. 2” Quad was a popular broadcast analogue video tape format whose halcyon period ran from the late 1950s to the 1970s. The first quad video tape recorder made by AMPEX in… Continue reading 2″ Quad Video Tape Transfers – new service offered