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From: seeree@neptune.ral.rpi.edu (Sanjeev Seereeram)
Subject: Re: YAMAHA DSP-E300: Help Me Enjoy It!
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:04:40 GMT



   You haven't mentioned whether you were replaying your audio
   material with the pro-Logic on. If you were, DON'T. Pro-logic
   surround is NOT meant, nor is it suited for standard audio
   reproduction (exception: there are a few audio discs out there
   that were recorded in surround stereo). In fact, I've tried
   to pro-logic some music and found the results just as horrible.

   On the other hand, I have personally auditioned Yamaha's surround
   processors, and (properly set up) found their specific music
   surround programs (Hall, Cathedral, etc.) to be quite effective
   in recreating the particular ambience intended. I have also found
   (both with Yamaha and Sony DSP units) that it is quite easy to
   mangle audio sound by messing around with the surround parameters.
   Generally, most audiophiles stay away as much as possible from such
   electronic manipulation in order to get the best results.

   In summary, it sounds like you are not using the proper modes for
   audio reproduction and/or have the system parameters improperly
   set. As far as hardware setup goes, the DSP-E300 is wired into
   a stereo system in a pretty standard way, either in a tape monitor
   loop, or between the pre-out/main-in jacks. You DO NOT have to
   play around with connections to vary between audio and video
   sound reproduction.

   Hope this helps.

   Sanjeev

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: mark@nwra.com (Mark Baldwin)
Subject: Re: S-VHS Deck Questions and Recommendations?
Organization: Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 21:20:19 GMT

chan@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM writes:
>A previous poster said you can eject a tape with the R5's remote. 
>I don't think this is true.

I was the previous poster. From the AUTO MENU you select 
REW-EJECT-POWER OFF. The tape ejects after it rewinds. There is no 
"eject" button on the remote.



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From: mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark Newton-John)
Subject: Crazy Eddie news article
Keywords: More trouble for Eddie
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 22:07:44 GMT

Here is some interesting news about Crazy Eddie's Eddie Antar, who
fled the country after his New York business failed. From an
industry newsletter.

First of the Month
Dealerscope Merchandising
October 1992
Michelle Dalton

More Trouble for Crazy Eddie Execs

The many questions surrounding Eddie Antar, founder of the
now-defunct Crazie Eddie consumer electronics chain, began to be
 answered this summer, as the US District Attorney filed new
 indictments against Antar.

Follwing his indictment in late June on federal racketeering charges,
 Antar was arrested in Isreal after eluding US authorities for more
 than two years. Another indictment was filed in August, this time
 seeking the forfeiture of more than $74 million Antar made from the
 sale of Crazie Eddie stock during a period when, according to
 federal investigators allege, Antar knew that the company's
 financial condition was materially misrepresented.

Antar is being held in Isreal pending extradition to the US, a
 process his attorney said could take anywhere from 10 months to two
 and a half years. The Isreali Justice Ministry said the crimes for
 which Antar's extradition was being sought, under Isreal's law,
 included conspiring to commit a felony, falsifying company records
 and securities fraud.

Antar's two brothers, Mitchell and Allen Antar, have also been
 indicted on charges of using several subterfuges to falsify the
 retailer's books in order to fraudulently inflate the price of the
 company's stock. They have entered a plea of "not guilty", said the
 US District Attorney's office.

In late August, federal investigators found approximately $850,000 in
 cash in two safe deposit boxes held in the name of a cousin of Eddie
 Antar. The boxes were found in the Bowery Division of Home Savings
 of America under the name of Yitzak Cohen. Prosecutors say, however,
 that the boxes belong to Antar and should be turned over to the
 government to help satisfy an $83 million Securities and Exchange
 Commission judgement against Antar.

Authorities told a northern New Jersey paper that the receipts for
 the boxes were found in Antar's possesion when he was arrested
 outside of Cohen's condominiom in June. They said Cohen was in
 Isreal when the boxes were leased, and the receipts appear signed by
 Antar. Defense attorney Jack Arsenault denied the accusation, saying
 the receipts were in the condominium, and not on Antar's person.


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From: jhc819@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (chung jason ho yong)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: SONY laserdisc players and defective doors
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:07:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BxLLGz.90t
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

On GENIE, someone mentioned having a problem with their door on their
Sony MDP-333.  I then remembered reading a thread a while back on rec.video
where others had this problem.

Can someone tell me how someone who has a problem with a bad door mechanism
can get it repaired?  Must it be under warranty or will Sony repair it for
free if this is a defect involving their whole line.

Thanks, Jason
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
Subject: Re: Little Shop LD
Organization: Network Equipment Technologies
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:40:02 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.172752.29270@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>	Well, whenever I do a freeze-frame, the tint shifts.
>Throughout the movie things are tinted somewhat green --
>particularly noticable with skin tones -- but when I freeze it it
>tints towards the red. Why would the picture be different when
>frozen?

  In your case, I might suspect that the burst is out of spec on
the disc, and not being sampled accurately by the framestore.  That
might explain why it is just that particular disc.

  I have a 3070(B) that has spent more time in the shop than in my
home due to problems with jamming on switching sides, and a problem
with the digital store.

  My digital store shows a much brighter image than the direct view,
annoyingly so.  This seems to enhance the visibility of how dismal the
resolution of the store is (far below VHS).  This is not on all discs,
but may be more common discs with poor s/n ratios, such as my CLV
Fantasia.  Flipping from live to freeze with sound is distressing
due to the change in brightness.

  A few weeks ago, the shop reported they could not make it fail,
and they didn't understand what I meant by the brightness problem.

  Most discs seem to be much noisier than VHS tape, and are, on average,
about the quality of a noisy cable TV signal.  What a disappointment.

  Videoscope *still* hasn't sent me the extended warranty certificate,
either.

	Alan
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Surround System Question - One
Date: 8 Nov 92 08:30:20 EST
Distribution: usa
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <1992Nov6.221153.26126@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>, leejun@sumac.ecn.purdue.edu (Jun H Lee) writes:
> Hi, Netters:
> 
> I'd like to know what the difference between Dolby
> Surround System offered by SONY XBR2 and Dolby Prologic
> Surround System.
> 
> Thanks very much.
The Dolby Surround offered on the XBR2 is the "older, passive" version of home
Dolby Surround...that is no center channel, less front to back separation,
etc....It's just like you would find in less expensive Dolby Surround add-on
amps and receivers.  
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: baldwin@frodo.colorado.edu (Dan "Viper" Baldwin)
Subject: A ph # for Pioneer
Organization: Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:07:53 GMT

	Does anyone have a phone number for info for
Pioneer products, especially LD players ? I would like to
find out exactly how all the different models are related,
ie 3070,3080,3090,501,701,etc ?


Thanks,
Dan Baldwin   baldwin@frodo.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong)
Subject: Re: AKAI Video Recorder Parts
Keywords: AKAI
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:48:15 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.153848.8123@wdl.loral.com> ayh@wdl1.wdl.loral.com writes:
}My father is looking for a US or Canadian service center for AKAI.  He has a
}VCR which has an AKAI part he can not find.

AKAI is serviced by Mitsubishi in the US.

}If this fails I'll be forced to try to come up with money for another machine. 
}Please help.

Eventually, that will happen anyway.  Budget the money! 


-- 

Norm Strong  (strong@tc.fluke.com)
2528 31st S.   Seattle WA 98144   USA
From: ebl@hpcss01.cup.hp.com (Ed Lanman)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 18:42:51 GMT
Subject: S-VHS Deck Questions & Recommendations?
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: rec.video

Hi,

Last summer we purchased a Sony TR-101 Hi8 camcorder.  Now I'm thinking
about getting an S-VHS deck for the higher resolution.  I've read the
glossies on the Sony SLV-R5UC and the Mitsubishi HS-U67 and HS-U82.
I like the idea of having a Sony since my TV is also a Sony, but would
buy a Mitsubishi if fellow netters indicated it was a better machine.

The question is, what experience do you have with S-VHS and what 
machine would you recommend and why?  If this has already been covered
and there is an existing FAQ would someone e-mail it to me.

By the way, a few tapes copied from the camcorder to VHS at high-speed
(SP - Short Play right? ;)) where definitely inferior to the camcorder
playing itself...

Thanks in advance,
Ed Lanman

These are my opinions, nobody else wants them..
From: 0004861036@MCIMAIL.COM (James Millick)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: U.K Video censorship on T2
Date: 8 Nov 92 16:52:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Our UK netter "Dominator" writes on my post:

|>>Subject: Re: Terminator and T2 on VHS
|>>   There's a new set of THE TERMINATOR and T2 on VHS packaged 
|>>together with a supplements tape. The box has a hologram of 
|>>the endoskeloton on it. The supplements have interviews with 
|>>Cameron never before seen and the trailer for T1 and both 
|>>trailers for T2. If this interests you (I'm waiting for LD), 
|>>make sure you get the set with T1 stickered as LETTERBOX. This 
|>>is a brand new, Cameron personally supervised transfer. Some 
|>>of the sets are pan and scan,and the T1 transfer is the same 
|>>old crummy one on the pan and scan. All T2 transfers are 
|>>Cameron's. This upset them greatly that the crummy transfer 
|>>was used, but it was too late to do anything. So keep your eye 
|>>out for the letterbox version. T1 was a 1.85:1 flat anyway, so 
|>even those of you who don't care for letterboxing shouldn't 
|>>find it too offensive.
|>> Jim Millick
|>> Video Reviewer
|>> The Perfect Vision
|>> 052327ZNOV92

|>Looks like you've done much better than us in Britain. All we 
|>got here was a tin box that looks like a baking tray with 
|>normal P&S tapes of T1 and T2, The Making of T2 which has been 
|>on TV anyway and a special effects booklet. And the T2 tape is 
|>the cut up 15-cert version anyway.
|>        Dominator

  What Dominator is talking about is that they got the "15 cert" 
version, which would be like if we got a version edited to PG-13 
on video, instead of the original R cut. Cameron & Lightstorm 
know about this, and don't like it. They are hoping that enough 
UK enthusiasts get together and complain to the censors board 
(whatever their title is) and see if they can get it changed. I 
remember Van Ling telling me about this when they had problems 
with ALIENS in the UK.

Jim Millick
Video Reviewer
The Perfect Vision
081648ZNOV92
From: de@helios.UCSC.EDU (De Clarke)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Address of Illinois Audio anyone?
Date: 10 Nov 1992 02:20:40 GMT
Organization: UCO/Lick Observatory
NNTP-Posting-Host: helios.ucsc.edu

I'm told they advertise in Stereo review.  I couldn't find a
Stereo Review on my local newsstand (must be a declasse' supermarket
huh) so was wondering if anyone has a copy and could tell me the
IA phone number.  Just email... not of much general interest.
thanks

de
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From: jfr@RedBrick.COM ()
Subject: Re: Title Superimposition using Sony TR-81
Organization: Red Brick Systems, Los Gatos, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 06:31:09 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.020931.27758@cbfsb.cb.att.com> sidnag@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (Sid Nag) writes:
>In article <1992Nov11.133603.5885@banana.fedex.com> mitch@banana.fedex.com (mitch wood) writes:
>>jfr@RedBrick.COM () writes:
>>>>[munched request for way to record titles on top of segments on TR81] 
>>>  No, it can't be done inside the TR-81.  :-( 
>>I hate to burst in like this, but I have seen and witnessed this feature
>>in the latest incarnation of the CCD F-70. It boasts superimpose in both
>>record and playback modes. Of course you have to capture the images on
>>another VCR it doesnt 'insert' the superimposed material.
>No reason why one can't do the _same_ using the TR-81.

  I do not believe from the original post that this is what the
  requester wanted.  As I read the post, he wanted to know if
  he could superimpose the titles on top of the *taped* segment
  (i.e., leaving both the original video and the titles on
  the tape).  If this is not what was intended, I apologize.

  It is certainly possible to superimpose the titles on the outgoing
  video, I guess, and if you say the CCD-F70 can do that, I won't
  disagree.  I have a CCD-F40 which is almost the same camera except
  with an infrared focus and 6x1 zoom (instead of an 8x1) and it 
  doesn't do this (superimpose titles on the playback output).  
  I have never tried to do this on the TR81 (maybe I will just for
  fun :-)  Frankly I don't use the "digital" superimposer because
  it sucks rocks for quality and I prefer at least halfway decent
  titles.  

  It is definitely NOT possible to superimpose the titles onto 
  the taped segment in place.  

  Jon Rosen
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: S-VHS Deck Questions & Recommendations?
Date: 12 Nov 92 05:09:04 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <BxKHpG.Ew0@taligent.com>, Jay_Tobias@taligent.com (Jay Tobias) writes:
> but it's claimed to be only +-5 frames.  The TR-101 also has Control L
> and advanced Syncrho Edit, and apparanetly this helps (see other posting).
> But if the TR-101 had RC time code,  it's been claimed that with an
> E700 editor, you could get frame-accurate edits.

RM-E700 will only give you frame accurate edits with a V801.  While the TR101 
will record RC time code it will _not_ play it back through the LANC jack.

-- 
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DECUS is for folks who are responsible for delivering computing technology.
The NLC is the national council for DECUS's Local User Groups - come join us!
From: gcmcnutt@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg McNutt)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi 40" tube announced
Date: 6 Nov 1992 23:58:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: blagg

In article <BxBBqL.50n@fc.hp.com>, rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>Bengt A. Palsson (bengt@fires1.uucp) wrote:
>
>That remains to be seen.  If it isn't priced at or below 40-inch rear-
>projection sets, it may sell no more than the Sony XBR41-PRO introduced
>several years ago (at $40K).  Any clue what the price of the Mitsu will be?

The local shop has 'em -- $5000.  Not a bad start.

Also, the picture isn't bad.  Side by side with the 35" is pretty much
the same.  They claim 830 lines H resolution....

As far as color purity and all, the guy put up the test laserdisc
and it too looked *very* good (not to mention the T2 showing).

Too bad, I'll probably go for the closeout VS50-VX1...

greg
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Sony HDTV Laserdisc player news
From: rkim@mars.uucp (Richard H.S. Kim)
Date: 11 Nov 92 06:45:39 PST
Distribution: na
Organization: Triacus Inc.

In article <1992Nov10.221235.5242@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> mfolivo@sactoh0.sac.ca.us
(Mark Newton-John) writes:

| Exciting news about the development of a Hi-Vision (MUSE HDTV)
| laserdisc player from... not Pioneer, but Sony.
|
| <stuff deleted>
|
| New in Japan
| Mike Ueda
|
| Sony to Introduce Hi-Vision LD Player
| 
| Sony will introduce a Hi-Vision laser disc player for consumers
|  sometime in 1993, according to published reports in Japan.
|
| The player will use the standard proposed by Sony, Sanyo, Toshiba,
|  Pioneer, and Matsushita in 1991. MUSE signals are recorded on video
|  disc and reproduced after being converted to full Hi-Visio signals.
| The player will be compatible with conventional LD players, and
|  pricing will be under one million yen. ($8,333 120 yen=$1  -MNJ)

This is not surprising at all.  It's well known that HDTV sets in
Japan haven't sold well at all, with many of them half-off the retail
price.  It's also well known that the Japanese HDTV consortium would
try to encourage more sales by supplying laser disc players and such.
This is needed to offset the R&D costs incurred by HDTV research.

|
| <stuff deleted>
|
| Well, would YOU spend at least $7,000 for a laserdisc player, even
| though it IS HDTV? I thought it was bad enough to sped $2,000 for a
| top-line Pioneer, and now they want over $8,000 for a HDTV one.

With the outcome of a HDTV standard in the US still to be decided, the
answer is obvious:  d. none of the above.

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From: dunne@VICENZA-EMH1.ARMY.MIL ("Edward F. Dunn")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: VERY small video monitor/video
Date: 9 Nov 92 08:02:05 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet
X-Unparsable-Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 21:48:51 CET


       Does anyone now of a VERY small video monitor or viewer that 
will run of a standard video or S-VHS output.   I'm looking for something
maybe like a normal Camcorder viewer except using standard video cable/connect-
ors.    I'm currently using the Citizen Camcorder monitor but need something
smaller.    

              Thanks for any suggestions,  
              Ed Dunn
              Vicenza, Italy
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.arts.tv,rec.video.production
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:10:13 GMT

>Just look at how hard it would be to sell a 'hot' Beta machine.  

There was a "Video Pirates" sketch in a movie -- @i(Kentucky Fried Movie),
I think.  They came across a trunk full of LD's, and the comments included
"They're obsolete!" and "They aren't compatible with my system!".
From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Video doublers ---
Date: 5 Nov 92 16:12:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: fc.Bx93p6.CoG
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Britt Brooks (brbrooks@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:

> What do video line doublers do?  What do they cost?  Are there other
> models available?

Line doublers convert the normal interlace video signal to non-interlace or
progressive scan.  This typically requires a video display with RGB inputs
and a scan rate of at least 31 KHz.  Line doubling is intended to reduce or
eliminate interlace twitter, and allow closer seating/or larger screens.
LDs face many of the same problems as PAL-NTSC standards converters, so the
more you spend, the better the results.  From what I have read, the
Faroudja, at $15,000 or so, is one of the better units available.

One of my laserdisc articles, LD#15, discusses this in more detail.

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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Need info on 8mm vcr
Date: 12 Nov 92 16:14:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore

In article <1992Nov11.201447.2664@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> johnm@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (John Mosbarger) writes:
>Tim Russell (trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu) wrote:
>:     My Christmas wish book from Service Merchandise also shows a nice-looking
>: new RCA unit, supposedly available 12/1/92.  It has three heads, flying erase
>: head, VCR+ programming, on-screen, 181-channel cable ready, 8 event 1 year.
>: Price is $500.
>
>[.....]
>
>:    Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
>:       "Who can doubt that pleasure is the only goal of a reasoned life?"
>:                                                    -- Epicurus
>
>     Does anyone have any experience with the Memorex units that are being
>sold by Radio Shack?  Does Memorex actually make them?  The local RCA store
>here has one of the VCR's ordered mentioned by Tim, but no delivery date was
>mentioned.
>
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No, my understannding is that Tandy bought the right to use the name on 
consumer items they retail ( I guess the Realistic label wasn't holding up too
well :3) ). If you look at them closely they will be seen to be a clone of
some far-eastern manufacturer.

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