I remember quad videotapes (2 inch) coming in that had a sticker saying "Protected by VIRS- adjust proc amp to pass."
In reality burst and sync got "regenerated" 2 times. After leaving the switcher it went to a proc amp where it would get black and white clip and agc. (I thought the best AGC amp was the RCA TA19. You could always tell a station that had one of these on the air.) Sync and burst would also be regenerated. Then it went to the virs inserter where it sync and burst would be regenerated again.
NOW, all of this is ahead of a pre-corrector that was required to compensate for non-linearities in the modulation process of the transmitter. It had to look flat on the air.
AND don't forget the low pass filter. Video was band limited to 4.2 MHZ to avoid components bleeding over into the sound at 4.5 MHz.
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Last edited by kf4rca; 09-29-2016 at 07:55 AM.
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