Of course the master copy has no TCR burnt in, you think Mr. Emery's tape was transferred directly to DVD? Obviously it is cleaned up and edited first, and there may indeed be a copy of THAT in 4:3 without a TCR. My posts might explain how and why the TCR is there and what the "interference" actually might be. Are you telling me that's all shit?
@Barry - yes I think you're right. Thank you for the clarification.
Real Wizard - my last post was a direct reply to yours. It seems you edited your post so my reply seems rather harsh now. What I'm trying to say is, simply uploading a file to youtube degrades it. I appreciate there are people like sikke who contaminate them further, but I know other collectors who would not do that sort of thing.
Well. Barry's theory about manual tuning is a possibility. I certainly could manually tune in TV stations on my first VCR in 1981 whilst recording. There was none of this digital tuning nonsense back then!
However, I find it hard to believe that, unless Queen were the first band on and the show had already started by the time "record" was pressed, all this "out of tune picture" surely would have been sorted out earlier.
Surely the guy recording it wanted the entire edition of TOTP and not just Queen?
If he had JUST wanted Queen, how the heck did he know when to press record in time NOT to miss the beginning? I cannot comment on the machine used to record this off-air as we have no idea what it was, but certainly early VHS and Betamax recorders took an average of 5 seconds to wrap the tape around the heads and start to record from when the button was pressed" (unless you had it in "pause" mode, which no one in their right mind would do for long periods of time as it wore the tape out and machines had a built in safety cut out anyway to prevent this).
The timecode doesn't bother me in the slightest - of course it's recently done.
There are many possibilities. He could have set the timer, then later switched the TV on at that point in time, realised the VCR was off tune and quickly put it right. He's dead now so we can't ask him, but I do blame him entirely for punishing us in this way (joke). He was awful, but I liked him. R.I.P.
Well. What we have is better than nothing.
I know I'd gladly have all the missing Dr Who episodes slightly out of tune than not have them at all.
Perhaps Bob Monkhouse has a better copy, can't ask him either unfortunately.
Remember when the whole nation nearly fell apart because he lost his joke book? Strange days.
There was one thing to be said about Bob Monkhouse. His humour was never crude, rude or vulgar.
The irony is that a lot of previously lost episodes of Bob's Full House were actually recorded by John Deacon and preserved for the nation.
Is that another conspiracy theory?
Yeah right and monkhouses might fly out of my butt
