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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Star Wars -- all three bad?
Organization: Columbia U., New York City
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:36:47 GMT
X-Posted-From: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


	I reported before having odd-shaped tinted regions of the
screen, in only certain scenes, of Star Wars (the first). The
areas are defined, and neither the location nor the amount or
color of the tinting changes at any point, or even between
scenes.

	I have now noticed it in all three of the discs in the
series. The TV is fine from other sources, and the player is fine
with other discs. But these are three different discs --
different pressings. Is it possible that the plant they used is
just sending out screwed up discs?

	The other thing is -- is it possible that my player is
not quite balanced right and is overly sensitive to some small
problem it could otherwise deal with?
	-- Ethan


purgamentum init, exit purgamentum
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: fontana@cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana)
Subject: Interlocking two LD players
Originator: fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 18:48:20 GMT



I don't own a laserdisc player, but the following idea occurred to me:
Although players exist that can play both sides of a disk, there
don't seem to be any that allow you to chain multiple DISKS together
using multiple LD players (provided you have the necessary $$$).  

It would be pretty simple to implement this.  One player would serve
as the master unit, with the main AUDIO/VIDEO/SVHS outs.  The second
player would be configured as a slave, with its line outs going to
respective line-thru's on the master unit.  A simple control line
(mini phono plug, or something) would digitally communicate the time
remaining from the master to the slave.  The slave would know approximately
how long it takes to start a disc, and watch the control signal for
its cue.  For example, at 0:00:06 remaining on the master, it would
prepare for playback, and then begin playing at exactly 0:00:00,
very much like a reel change using a two projector changeover in a
conventional cinema.

The master would detect a signal on the thru inputs, and route them to
the master line outs.  Some genlock-type circuitry could be employed
to eliminate a jump in the video.


Does anything like this exist?  Any problems with this idea?


Mark Fontana
From: IWCEC@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU ("CARL CHAPMAN / WEST IRT")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: VIDEOTECH Digest V92
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:39:59 GMT
Organization: The Internet

FROM:    CARL CHAPMAN / WEST IRT
Will someone help me unsubscribe!!!

-Carl  3-8252
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bladin@wam.umd.edu (Dave Bittner & Ilana J. Getz)
Subject: EVW-300 arrived
Originator: bladin@rac1.wam.umd.edu
Organization: University of Maryland at College Park
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:21:06 GMT

I received my new Sony EVW-300 3 chip Hi8 camcorder today, along with
a Canon 15X lens, a Hitachi Power supply / charger, and several
batteries. I will soon post a detailed review, along with side by side
comparisons between this unit and my V5000 and TR-81.

Please Email any specific questions you may want addressed.

Thanks!

Dave Bittner -  Steadicam JR dealer - Mac User - Rollerblader -
==========================================================================
"They were apes only yesterday. Give them time." 
"Once an ape - always an ape..."
"No, it will be different...Come back here in an age or so and you shall
see..."
    - The gods, discussing the earth, H.G. Wells, "The Man Who Could Work
Miracles"
From: WTS@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU ("WADE T. SMITH")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VIDEOTECH Digest V92 #660
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:51:36 GMT
Organization: The Internet

to David Levine-
Maybe it's cause I'm kind of old maybe, but since when do you _need_ a TV
to program a VCR? But then none of mine have on screen programming- does
on screen programming force you to use the TV? Is there no display on the
front of the VCR to let you know what's happening?
I often program my JVC 470 while watching a tape, or even when nothing is on.
The remote does everything and the display, while among the smaller around,
is very readable from ten feet or so.
I'll go on record as not liking any sort of on screen display, even the
simple volume level bars on the bottom of the screen. At the very least,
there should be a defeat switch.

________________________________________________________________________
        WADE T. SMITH                  "O.K. I'VE REVERSED THE
     WTS@HARVARDA.BITNET            POLARITY OF THE NEUTRON FLOW.
WADE_SMITH@NOCMSMGW.HARVARD.EDU              NOW WHAT?"
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wlg0988@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Wanbing Li)
Subject: HELP with camcorder battery, RCA pro 8
Summary: nothing
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 05:32:10 GMT
Keywords: battery

i
What should be the normal battery hours for 8 mm camcorder, some people tell me it whould be about 1 hour or 2, as rated, but my battery, the one rated 1 hour only runs for 10 min. and 2hour one is not better either.  curiously, both can be charged for about an hour, whereas the book says need 5 hours to 10.  so can spme other RCA users there tell me if they have the same problem ? I am trying to figure if it is my batteries or the charge that is not working, or this problem is characteristic of RCA ?  
I know other SOny users can get 1.5 hour from 2 hour battery.
thanks.
sorry for the typos, I hate VI !

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: Need advice on JVC VCRs
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 18:36:56 GMT

In article <1992Aug6.145757.21257@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> hcy@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (hon-chi.yu) writes:
>Oh, regarding the infamous Hi-Fi dropout problem of JVC VCRs, I am interested
>to know if the newer models (like HRS-4700, 6700 etc.) still have that problem.
>( I am interested in observations that have a little bit of statistical 
>significance.)
>For one, my 1 yr old HRS-4700 does not have dropout problem ( yet. :-) ).

My year-old HRD-980U doesn't seem to have this problem either. Of course, it
also has an explicit switch to select HiFi, Normal, or Mixed audio...
-- 
  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
 ::To the owner of the blue Mazda, license 742-XLT, your headlights are on...::
 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: judym@col.hp.com (Judy Miller)
Subject: Re: LD discolored spots -- has anyone ever gotten a fixed replacement?
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 15:52:35 GMT
Organization: HP Colorado Springs Division

es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
> 
> 	The one thing which I haven't heard from anyone is
> whether this problem of discolored regions on a laserdisc has
> ever been fixed by disc replacement. I believe now that it is the
> disc -- but my concern is how likely a replacement disc is to
> have been pressed in the same way.
> 
> 	BTW, none of the more technical people here have any idea
> what the CAUSE of this problem is???
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	-- Ethan
> 
> 
> purgamentum init, exit purgamentum

It could be a combination of your disc AND player.
Replacing it my not help if it comes from the same pressing.

Here I go with analogies again:

I had a problem on my VHS which only appeared on my old musicals, but not
on newer movies.  I returned them and got other copies, and the same thing
happened.  I complained that this "lot" of tapes was bad, but it played fine
on their VCR.   I ended up replacing my VCR.
BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT THE TAPE THAT WAS DIFFERENT ... 

Similarly, I got a CD which didn't work on both of my CD players. 
I took it back, and it worked fine on the one at the store.
I believe the CD is not quite right, but their hardware compensated for it.
They were nice enough to honor the exchange.

Judy
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Looking for Tron LD
From: claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu (King_Claudius (Chris Knight))
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 20:32:46 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Anyone know of a store that still has Tron in stock?  Please forward me a
number and/or post it.  Thanks.

Oh, and please PLEASE no offers to sell me a LD.  I want to deal with stores
only.  Thanks.
-- 
---King Claudius---                                   claudius@zeus.calpoly.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: joec@fid.morgan.com (Joe Collins)
Subject: Re: Help-Phone number for Sony Service Manuals
Organization: None
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 20:31:20 GMT

In article <1992Aug20.170043.18124@col.hp.com> arnie@col.hp.com (Arnie Berger) writes:
>
>I misplaced the phone number for the branch of Sony that sells the service
>manuals for their video products. I ordered the service manual for the
>TR-81/Nikon VN700 and most of the manuals they sent me were for the TR-81,
>but not all of them, so I need to contact Sony. If you happen to have the 
>phone number I sure would appreciate it. I called 800 information but they
>didn't have a Sony listing.
>
>                                                   Arnie
>arnie@col.hp.com
>-- 
>Arnie Berger
>arnie@hplsdvt
>Telnet 590-5642

Sony Corp (NJ Headquarters)        201-930-7669
Sony Corp                        1-800-222-SONY Customer Service
Sony Corp                        1-800-767-SONY Partnership Support

Hope that helps....

Joe

joec@morgan.com
From: brucer@gold.gvg.tek.com (Bruce Rayner)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: 8mm HiFi: Adaptor for RCA Jack -> Earphones?
Date: 13 Aug 92 18:19:56 GMT
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA

In article <mr.713651007@ogre> mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
>I've got a question:  Can you get simple audio out of the camcorder by
>converting one of the audio-out RCA jack to a miniplug?  I've got both


Doesn't the 71 have an earphone output?  Most of these cameras do.  It's 
lo Z where the RCA outputs have a Z of about 1K ohms.

Bruce
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Sony SLV-R5U Owners... Help me!
Date: 12 Aug 92 16:31:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bsvpx6.AHo
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


In article <1992Aug11.135650.22029@ils.nwu.edu> tsui@ils.nwu.edu writes:
>Has anyone used the R5 with an editting controller?  I'm looking around for one
>and would like to get some feedback on any products that are good.  I'm
>seriously thinking about the FutureVideo controller  but would like to stick to
>Sony stuff.

I don't know what Sony has to offer other than the RM-100/300 (or
whatever they are). I have the FutureVideo, and I can hook it up to my
computer and have true EDL-based editing. To my knowledge, the Sony
controllers won't do this. Also, the FV controller will work with the
Panasonic AG1960 deck, which is a MUCH better deck when used as the
source VTR (the protocol used by the Panasonic has frame-level
resolution; the LANC protocol only goes down to the nearest second).
With the FV controller, you have that additional upgrade path. With the
Sony, you do not.

My system has the 1960 as the source and the R5 as the record deck, and
it works reasonably well with the FV controller and my computer.
From: stanford@verbis.waisman.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: 8mm VCR's
Date: 23 Aug 92 15:13:04 GMT
Organization: Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison


        Does anyone make an 8mm (or Hi-8) VCR other than Sony?
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: smiller@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Scott Miller)
Subject: For Sale: Sony KP-5020
Keywords: for sale, sony, projection tv
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:40:40 GMT

For sale: Sony KP-5020 projection TV system.  Needs new green tube,
have service manual.  50" screen included.  $400/obo.

Please respond via e-mail.

Scott Miller <smiller@Qualcomm.com>
From: Tanwei_Chung.ES_AE@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD/Kareoke
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:07:36 GMT
Reply-To: tchung.esae@xerox.com
Organization: The Internet


Hi,
I have a question need your help.
One netter wrote to me about the different mode of the audio in a regular LD
player:
<
<Ok, I broke out my manual and let me explain what it says.
<In Analog audio mode, the unit can play in stereo, or the left channel or
<right channel only. Same for the Digital mode. In the example they used,
<a recording can be saved with up to four seperate audio tracks.
<Quadlingual discs, by this method, can be recorded.
<Karaoke machines save the music in stereo in Digital mode, but in Analog mode,
<the music is on the left channel, and the assisting vocals are on the
<right.
<
another netter wrote to me that:
<The regular LD player will not be able to output music or music+vocal.
<

now my question is:
If the Pioneer LD player have 4 audio mode, which can play audio in one channel
(left or right only) , can the  output of the audio signal be selected to be
the one channel you want?
which mode the karaoke is using?
does all the Pioneer LD player has 4 mode audio? anybody have used one of this
function?
mainly I want to understand whether I can use a regular LD player + a audio
sound mixer to function as an karaoke or not.
Thanks in advance

Tanwei Chung
e-mail address: tchung.esae@xerox.com
telephone: (310) 333-7099
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: barker@dmpe.csiro.au ( David Barker)
Subject: Re: st:tng blue corners?
Organization: CSIRO. Div of Mineral and Process Engineering.
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 03:25:17 GMT

In article <14379@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Benna) writes:
>> Khan writes:
>> 
>> In article <1992Aug17.845.16635@dosgate> "james kewageshig"
>> <james.kewageshig@canrem.com> writes:
>> >
>> >Not really related but, has anyone else noticed that the end credits
>> >for Star Trek: The Next Generation has a blue tint near the top and
>> >bottom left corners, but not in the other two ??  I thought this was
>> >my TV, but then I saw the same thing on another TV...
>> 
>> I see it on TNG all the time. And here I had chalked it up to my Sony
>> XBR TV. ;-)
>
>As do I.  So who's gonna tell Paramount that we've all noticed this problem?
>--
>     ---> Mike Benna, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
>          MindSpan Technologies Corp. - Video Game Design and Development
>INTERNET: Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca

I have a Sony 68cm TV and it was noticable on it.  It was the factory setting of the contrast and colour levels which caused it.  Try turning down the contrast
of the TV to about halfway, and then turn up the brightness and the colour
controls.  If that fails, do what I had to do.  That is open the TV and manuallychange the colour levels by a small screwdriver on each of the RED, GREEN, and
BLUE guns.  This also helped the black and white of the TV to be more true.
Note: turn the colour all the way down to B&W when adjusting.

After adjustment the BLUE HUE disappears almost totally.

If you are unsure what you are doing, just change the contrast as I mentioned.

Note: the TV I have is a dual system TV (NTSC & PAL)

I hope this is of use to you...

David Barker
<barker@dmpe.csiro.au>
From: ccheng@mips.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Pioneer CLD-D701 Novice Review
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:50:52 GMT
Reply-To: ccheng@mips.com
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: wildcat.mips.com

Thanks Craig.

Would somebody please suggest me a good place for ordering the Pioneer LD players?

Thanks in advance.

Cheng.
From: PYRDEK@edinboro.edu ("JOE P.")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: BUZZ on tv signals
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:30:11 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
From: pyrdek@edinboro.edu
Newsgroups: list.rec.videotech
Subject: BUZZ on tv signals
Date: 21 Aug 92 09:29:41 EDT
Distribution: local
Organization: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
News-Moderator: Approval required for posting to list.rec.videotech

> As you know, a TV signal is made up of two parts--the video, with is
> AM, and the audio which is FM.  The two signals are separated by 4.5 MHz.
> Remember that number because it will come up again.
>
> to save money (especially on non-stereo TVs and VCRs), both signals are
> converted to a fixed frequency (the IF frequency, about 45 MHz) and amplified
> and filtered together.  At the end of all this is the video detector.  Not
> only does this detector convert the IF signal to a baseband video signal, but
> it also produces another signal.  This signal is an FM signal at 4.5 MHz,
> which is the difference frequency between the audio and video carrier
> frequencies.  This signal is then sent to a simple 4.5 MHz FM receiver.
> Note that tuning is not critical, since the frequency of this signal depends
> only on the difference in the frequencies between the audio and video signals,
> which is set at the transmitter.  This was an inportant point before modern
> quartz synthesized tuners.

 [text deleted]>

> There are also other possible sources.  All amplitude modulators have a
> certain amount of what is called incidental phase modulation, which in
> effect puts some FM onto the video carrier.  In an intercarrier sound
> system, the 4.5 MHz signal will have FM on it whether it comes from the
> desired FM on the audio signal, or undesired FM on the video signal.
> And incidental phase modulation is worst at the white extreem.
> Also, if the IF circuitry if the VCR or TV is not well adjusted, there
> can be overload effects which could cause the buzzing as well.

  [text deleted]
Another problem area for buzz is the search for increased efficincy on
tv transmitters, especially UHF types.  In an effort to reduce energy
costs, several UHF stations have used "Pulsers" to allow a maximum
current flow to the klystron (most often used in UHF transmitters of
older vintage).  This is during the period when a "blacker than black"
signal is transmitted, i.e. sync pulse time about 60 times a second.

One problem is that this pulse system changes the operating curve of
the klystron significantly and a result is a shift in carrier phase
(see above quote).  This Incidental Carrier Phase Modulation (ICPM)
will cause buzz unless a predistorted signal is introduced to counter-
act the ICPM introduced.  Just one more example of the cascade engineering
school. (Change one thing so you have to changer another which becomes
the first thing in a change ad infinitum.....)
From: chu@freebie.jpl.nasa.gov (Eugene Chu)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Death of the LP speed...
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:29:43 GMT
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL

In article <1992Aug5.042406.24325@ultb.isc.rit.edu> phbob@nick.csh.rit.edu (Phbob) writes:
>In article <7755@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> linley@boole.seas.ucla.edu (Bruce Linley) writes:
>>My god, why? The LP speed has always been the ideal compromise between image
>>quality and the 2 hour time wall (Ever try to tape a 2 1/2 hr movie and be
>>forced into the 6hr EP speed?) Oh gods of video wisdom, please tell me why
>>so little records in the LP speed anymore?
>>--
>>Bruce Linley         | begin 600 .signature
>
>  The heads and motors are optimized for 2 speed - 2 and 6 hour modes.  The 4
>hour mode was a marketing ploy used against Beta II (Sony did beta II for the
>same reason).  Now, the image you get from a 6 hour mode recording is
>SUPPOSED to be slightly better than a 4 hour image because the heads have
>been optimized to record at this speed (6 hour that is) and NOT at the 4
>hour speed.
>
>  Do a little research and you will see that the speed settings were the
>result of the bitter VHS vs. Beta wars of the early and mid 80's.
>'We can record longer than you can....' that type of thing.
>
>Bob

But I think Sony did a much better job of maintaining quality with Beta-II
than anybody did with any of the VHS formats.  I daresay that my Beta-III
recordings are comparable to my VHS-SP recording.  I do find it hard to
believe that at one time only Beta-I was available for home use.

eyc
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
Subject: Is there an audio/video receiver?
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:41:14 GMT

Hmm..  I am the market for some type of audio/video receiver.  And by
video receiver, I don't mean the kind that is frequently found in store..
that is, I want to receive the Video, not just the audio from the video
channels (this is what most of the so-called a/v receivers actually do).
I am looking for something that has both audio and video out lines, so I
can hook them up to my monitor and speakers.  I am also assuming that such
a thing has an integrated amplifier.

Well, is there one of these, and where do I get one, if so?

keith@caltech.edu

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tsui@ils.nwu.edu
Subject: Re: Sony SLV-R5U Owners... Help me!
Organization: Institute for the Learning Sciences
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 14:42:36 GMT

>
>The Pansonic AG-1960 does indeed have video insert.  When used as the
>record deck in conjuntion with the Future Video controller, you can
>do inserts of video (with hifi audio), linear audio alone, or video
>plus linear audio.  New versions of the Future Video controllers allow
>you to determine the length of the insert by marking in- and out-points
>on the play side as well as the record side.
>

huh, thats interesting.  So the controller allows it to do video insert while
it can't do it on its own?  Thanks for the info, I'll be giving FutureVideo a
call.  Have you actually done video inserts on the 1960?   
From: rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 16:40:05 GMT
Subject: Re: Speaker Magnet affecting TV (was Re: Star Wars LBX from Columbia House )
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
Newsgroups: rec.video

In rec.video, jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:

> I know that a million people have said that there CH discs are fine, but
> maybe now CH is having their own seperate cheaper printings done?  That's
> the way their other clubs work and the quality is generally inferior. 

CHLDC is owned by Columbia, who is owned by Sony, and the Sony LD plant is
DADC (Digital Audio Disc Corp, Terre Haute IN).  DADC is a quality vendor of
CD and LD media.  For example, we (HP) use them for CD-ROMs.

The problem with "club discs", if made for the club, is not the production,
but the masters.  They may be one or more generations removed from the
"original" video masters.

In any case, DADC discs are easy to identify (see my standard article
LD#09).  Some of you club members could take a look at recent deliveries and
let us know who made them.

The "problem" LD manufacturer right now is WEA, based on net complaints, and
the fact that several recent Warner titles that were scheduled for WEA were
made elsewhere.  Everybody else (except for PDO-UK, from whom I've not seen
any recent production) seems to have their act generally together.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

This article represents only the opinion[s] of its author, and is not an
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