Gary Templeton: Hey, Todd! You’ll never guess what I just I bought for the business.
Todd Ruel (pounding on vintage VCR): Not now, dude. I’m busy being mad at our VHS decks. The images keep jumping around on the screen. The pictures aren’t stable. Hulk smash!
Gary: Settle down! Breathe through your nose. I have the answer right here.
Todd: A beige metal pizza box with buttons, knobs, and blinky lights? How is that gonna help me digitize all these VHS tapes?
Gary: This vintage piece of gear is called a time base corrector. It was a common piece of equipment in TV stations and edit suites back in the analog video days.
Todd: What does it do?
Gary: It stabilizes playback of videotape.
Todd: Why is this even a problem?
Gary: Videotapes have unstable sync due to friction created as the tape comes into contact with all the parts inside a VCR.
Todd: So how does this time base corrector/pizza box help?
Gary: It takes the images coming out of the VCR and makes them play at an even, steady rate so that our recording equipment can digitize them without any errors. No more jumpy, jittery video.
Todd: Will it work with formats other than VHS?
Gary: Yes! If a customer brings us Hi 8 or Betamax cassettes, this time base corrector will create buttery smooth, stable images.
Todd: How about professional formats like 3/4” Umatic or BetaSP?
Gary: Yup. It works with all videotape formats.
Todd: Most folks don’t even know this was a problem with videotape, right?
Gary: No doubt. That’s why they should let Memory House transfer their tapes. When you try to do it yourself, you run into all sorts of problems that you never knew existed in the first place. We can save customers a lot of time and frustration. We’ve already been there, done that, and solved those problems.
Todd: Ease their pain, Gary.
Gary: Hooking up the time base corrector right now.
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