Posted by Scott Dorsey on 12/05/06 19:06

blackburst@aol.com <blackburst@aol.com> wrote:
>Roderick Stewart wrote:
>
>> That was nowhere near the "beginning". In the beginning, the sync
>> pulse generator at the location may or may not have been slave locked
>> to base, or base may have taken the feed as a non-synchronous source,
>> but video and audio would have gone straight through the whole system
>> without passing through any equipment that was even capable of
>> introducing any noticeable delay, because such equipment didn't exist.
>> People had to be trained in the use of sync pulse generators and
>> genlock systems, but most of the time it worked, and bad lip-sync was
>> something that only ever applied to film.
>
>Correct. In a brief summary, I jokingly referred to "the beginning" as
>the dawn of the frame synchronizer.

I believe he said the "beginning of the problems" was the dawn of the
frame synchronizer... and I would tend to agree completely.
--scott


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