[brenellic2000]

Hi Tim,

I'll swap some of your warm Christmas sun for our cold, wet, damp weather!

Motek decks ran at 7-1/2ips, but instead of using idlers/stepped pulleys their early decks used a phase shift/change to get a lower, 2nd speed 'to help cine film users' - ie: 5ips (although some sources say 4-1/2ips).

As I say, I've never use cine cameras so am mystified why the speed of the tape recorder was necessary to match a cine-camera, unless the magnetic stripe cine film was passed through tape deck - yet whose tape guides were only 6mm wide. But, 16mm, 8mm and Super all differ in size of frames and number of frames per second. Can you explain this conundrum?

Merry Christmas!
Barry