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From: langhaus@chalk.cpceng.cpc.gmeds.com (JOSEPH LANGHAUSER)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Battery Pack Info Needed?
Date: 4 Jan 93 19:38:03 GMT
Reply-To: langhaus@chalk.cpceng.cpc.gmeds.com
Organization: GM/EDS NAO

I have recently purchased a Sony  V701 Hi -8 Camcorder and I am looking
for a battery pack that can take 5 or 6 AA battery's .  I Know something like 
this exists but where can I find it.  The alternative would be the memory-less 
batteries but I have not seen or heard much other than in the new TR200 review.
I need this because most of my usage is two minutes twice a month and I was 
told this would a better way to go than Ni-Cad type pack.
From: hoffman@cs.pitt.edu (Bob Hoffman)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Need Hi 8 tape source (mail order)
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:30:52 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science

In article <1icuf9INNmd9@hp-col.col.hp.com>, chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson) writes:
|>   Can someone recommnd a good source of Hi 8 tapes via mail order?

TAPE WORLD    800-245-6000      412-283-8621       FAX 412-283-8298
220 Spring St.
Butler, PA 16001

-- 
Bob Hoffman, N3CVL       pitt!hoffman
Pitt Computer Science    hoffman@cs.pitt.edu    FAX: +1 412 624 8854
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Bent vertical lines near top of screen
Date: 5 Jan 93 03:13:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames

"mikeho" == Michael Ho <mikeho@seeker.mystic.com> writes:

mikeho> I think this is caused by Macrovision, a supposedly invisible
mikeho> copy-protection scheme that is used by most major movie
mikeho> companies, including Disney.

Also on the BBC tapes distributed in the US by Sony(?) (Blackadder, in
particular, harumph, and I *BOUGHT* the #$*&^@# things.)

--
J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311 (DoD# 0378)
"It is the cunning of form to veil itself continually in the evidence
of content.  It is the cunning of the code to veil itself and to produce
itself in the obviousness of value." -- Baudrillard
From: osterber@husc8.harvard.edu (Richard Osterberg)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Getting donations
Date: 11 Jan 93 04:00:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: husc.osterber.726724856

I'm part of HRTVO - Harvard-Radcliffe TeleVision Organization. We
self-created this year as a television organization here at Harvard
(obviously). Harvard has no other group anything like us. Our long-range
plan is to become a fully-fledged television station, probably simply
broadcasting over cable (incidentally, our dorms aren't even wired for
cable TV). However, while Harvard will "officially recognize" us, they
don't help too well in the financial/equipment side of the issue. Does
anybody know of any methods that have worked in the past for soliciting
donations of any kind of video equipment. Currently, our operating budget
is nearly non-existent, and we have no legal way of raising money, and we
are primarily working through Cambridge community Access Television for
equipment purposes. Any suggestions?
-rick
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: digital video camcorders?
Date: 5 Jan 93 05:14:32 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <wkmpph-040193085457@norie_sato.isc.rit.edu> wkmpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (W. Keith McManus) writes:
<In article <4667@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) wrote:
<> 
<
<> 
<> Panasonic has come out with the D-3 format, using 1/4" tape.  The camcorders
<> and decks are $100k plus.  Not exactly viable in the home market.
<
< 
<One piece Panasonic D3 camcorder $60,000 + lens
< 
<D3 is 1/2" tape

Correct.  I don't know why I said 1/4" tape, when I knew it was half inch :-(
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From: cmc@cs.utexas.edu (Chi Ming Cheung)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Karaoke(sp?) Machines
Date: 8 Jan 1993 14:05:19 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: grit.cs.utexas.edu


I am going to buy a LD Karaoke machine as a present for my sister.  Any
recommendation?  What features are useful?  So far I know both Pioneer and
Panasonic make them.

--M.
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: RS-232 IR Remote control
Date: 6 Jan 93 17:23:19 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

I looks like VISCA/Vboxes and my PC are the ultimate way to do VCR programming 
since with VISCA you can inquire the status of your VCR as well as send 
commands (i.e. you don't have to remember to leave your VCR set a certain 
way).  However there is still one problem - changing the cable box.  Does 
anyone sell a IR transmitter that can be programmed and can be controlled by a 
RS-232 interface?

-- 
Jeff Killeen - DECUS U.S. Chapter NLC Chair | Email:killeen@eisner.decus.org

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: kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: What does timecode look like?
Date: 5 Jan 1993 13:37:49 -0700
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc., Longmont, CO
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: anthrax-fddi.solbourne.com


Every once in a while I'll see a station accidentally run a tape such that
there are small white horizontal marks flickering in a black band in the top
.25" or so of the picture.  I'm assuming these are SMPTE time code marks, but my
question is what they are doing wrong that these are showing up in the actual
picture?  Do VCRs that read/write timecode marks "automatically" overscan the
retrieved picture to avoid displaying these marks in the picture?  Do these
stations have a switch set wrong or are they just playing a SMPTE-encoded tape
in a non-timecode machine?

The marks kind of look like

========= = = = == == === ==== == ==== ===== === == = === == = == === = = = =
          ^                                               ^
	  |                                               |
    These marks change				  These marks change
    about once per second			  very rapidly (fractional
						  seconds or frames?)

Thanks in advance...
-- 
| William Kucharski, Solbourne Computer, Inc.     | Opinions expressed herein
| Internet: kucharsk@solbourne.com   Ham: N0OKQ   | are MINE alone, NOT those
| Snail Mail: 1900 Pike Road, Longmont, CO  80501 | of Solbourne Computer, Inc.
| President, "Just the Ten of Us" Fan Club        | "Dittos from Longmont, CO"
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester)
Subject: test-  don't read
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 20:16:40 GMT

 test
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Simple way to produce black
Date: 11 Jan 93 02:48:25 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <2935778704.1.wk00624@psilink.com> wk00624@psilink.com (Gary Hopkins) writes:
<Is there a simple way to produce a black signal. I'd like to put it on 
<the front of tapes and between recordings. One method I know, but is too 
<much trouble is to use the output from a Commodore 64, but I don't have one.

Even if you had a C-64, the output isn't NTSC spec.

Use your camcorder.  Keep the lens cap on.  If it is a single chip CCD camera,
it may produce too much noise.
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Xref: sparky rec.video:15352 rec.photo:22909 rec.arts.books:23762
From: blue@sequent.com (Gil Delavous)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo,rec.arts.books
Subject: Re: Photo CD
Date: 4 Jan 93 09:28:26 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1993Jan4.092826.842
Followup-To: rec.photo
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

In article <1992Dec24.180536.3749@atlastele.com> briang@atlastele.com (Brian Godfrey) writes:
>In article <92359.000218I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> CUNY/Spartacus <I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>>In article <PD.92Dec20184108@horus.sics.se>, pd@sics.se (Per Danielsson) says:
>>>Digital (mostly magnetic) media seems to go out of fashion very fast.
>>>Have you tried to read a 7-channel tape lately? A punched tape?
>>>Can we be certain that somebody a hundred years from now can read a
>>>PhotoCD?
>>                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>Sorry Per,
>>      But you ought to know better than that being a computer person.
>>If its digital, it can be transfered to many different digital mediums.
>>Just like transfering an old text file from a 160k 5 1/4 floppy
>>to a 2.88mb  3 1/2 floppy.   Or uploading my floppy file to 3380
>>mainframe diskpack or digital tape.  etc etc etc...etc
>
>   I agree with Per.  Most people - the vast majority of the people in the
>   world - are not technophiles.  They are not going to update their media 
>   and reading devices every time a new standard comes out.  They just won't 
>   do it.  They've got other things to do.  But they will surely want to 
>   look at their old family photos sixty years from now.  Most folks get 
>   their pictures back and look at them and then toss them in a drawer.  
>   Some of the more organized might actually put them into an album.  Then 
>   they look at them once every two or three years for a while and then 
>   forget about them until one day they want to show them to their grandkids.
>   I can remember rummaging in my grandparents attic and coming across 
>   various old memorabilia and photos and dragging Grandma up to tell me 
>   about them.  I would have been disappointed if they were on some media 
>   which could not be read because it was forty years and ten techno-
>   generations old, and Grandma would have been more so.  Film does not 
>   have this problem.  
>   
>-- 
>--Brian M. Godfrey
>  atlastele.com

I think that there is another problem with these medias: years! While you can 
store a paper photo in a good strong album for a siecle, I'm really sceptical 
about magnetic/digital storage that can be *easily* scrached/destroyed by 
several things. 
I still have readable listings of some algorithms I made 10 years ago but I'm 
not sure I could load the files from a 10 years old 5 1/4 floppy disk!

Unless there is a fire at home, I can keep the negatives and the prints safely 
for years! With magnetic support, I would have to keep at least 2 copies and
transfer them every 5/10 years to keep them updated!

Gil.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: British Visitor seeking LD Outlets in FL, GA & NC.
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:34:15 GMT

In article <11.Jan.93.09:52:40.A1069F@UK.CO.SSS.A> Vision@a.salford-software-services.co.uk writes:
>Hi Folks,
> 
>I'll be visiting the USA in March and was looking for suggestions for
>Laser Disc shops in these areas:
> 
>      Atlanta, Georgia
>      Tampa & Orlando, Florida
               ^^^^^^^
I live here.    And I havn't found any great LD shops here.

However - just north of Atlanta, there is a shop (and I have
forgotten the name right now - someone else will put it up I'm
sure) that has one of the best selection I have ever seen.

They even do mail order.  Just guessing I'd say they have about
3000 titles on display at any one time.


>      Raleigh, NC
> 
>Any info on any discounts offered and if they handle cut-outs or used discs
>would be useful.
> 
>I'd also be interested in suppliers of discounted/reconditioned LD players
>(e.g. I understand that J&R Frogg had LD-W1s in for under $600 at one time).
>The NTSC capable players in the UK tend to either be very expensive or
>only single sided, no field memory machines or both.  I'd be prepared to deal
>mail order for this so location isn't important.
> 
>Thanks
>Keith
> 
>================================================================================
>Keith Wolstenholme,   |keith@uk.co.salford-software-services.a| I should think
> 3-S,Technology House,|keith@uk.co.sss.a                      | of something
>  Lissadel Street,    |                                       | clever to put
>   Salford,M6 6AP,U.K.|For ISOCEPT enquiries:                 | here but there's
>    +44 61 737 7010   |   isocept_support@uk.co.sss.a         | no room left !
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill@bilver.uucp
                - ..!{peora|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill
Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: An intro to HDTV
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:28:04 GMT

One thing I am wondering is how much of the bandwidth of an HDTV channel
(if any) will be reserved for data other than picture and sound.  NTSC
has a lot of extra bandwidth, mainly during the pause between one vertical
sweep an the next, which I have been told is used in this country to
send closed captions.  I hear that in other countries the corresponding
"unused" bandwidth in their broadcast signals is used to send all kinds
of interesting information, like stock quotes and the scores of cricket
matches.  I can see uses for such information to be broadcast in the
same channel with the sound and picture of the regular broadcast
(in addition to the obvious use for closed captions).

Unfortunately I suspect that the requirement to squeeze an HDTV signal
into a 6 MHz band would lead to the elimination of any "extra" data
carrying capacity of the signal.  Anyone know?

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)
From: asweeney@camelot.transfer.stratus.com (Andy Sweeney)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Sony TR71 or FX510 - Help me decide!
Date: 12 Jan 93 12:22:19
Organization: /u/asweeney/.organization
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: camelot.sw.stratus.com
In-reply-to: long-morrow@cs.yale.edu's message of 5 Jan 1993 15:23:48 -0500

>>In article <1icqokINN2fs@SPARKY.CF.CS.YALE.EDU>, long-morrow@cs.yale.edu (H. Morrow Long) writes:
  >> NNTP-Posting-Host: sparky.cf.cs.yale.edu

  >> You could'a had a Hi-8!

  >> Why get a regular 8 camcorder when you can get a Hi-8 camcorder for
  >> just a few hundred $$$ more (a Sony TR-81, 101 or 200, or a Canon)?

  >> 					- Morrow

  Hi-8 is only good if you have or plan to have S-VHS TV/VCR. I looked 
  into both and found not much of a difference. 

  I would advise getting the Ricoh R-15. It is the same as the TR71 with
  a better lense (supposedly) and a great warranty if you buy via mail
  order. I got a bunch of quotes on prices, the best was 6 year warranty
  for $799.

  Andy
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tylee@leety.austin.ibm.com (Ty Lee)
Subject: Re: What does timecode look like?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 20:13:36 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: IBM, Austin

In article <4713@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
>

I guess I am one of the video idiots in the world. Can somebody
suggest a brand and model  of Video Camera to buy with good quality and 
low cost?

I've already had one from Magnovox. Now, I can see views from the
view finder, bust can neither record or play a tape (VHS).

Any help will be appreciated.



-- 
 * The opinions are my own, not IBM's. Take care and have a nice day.        *
 *                                                                           *
 *               Ty Lee                                                      *
From: alanh@wrq.com (Alan)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: WANTED: Information about data contained in vertical blanking interval
Date: 9 Jan 1993 00:11:44 GMT
Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA
NNTP-Posting-Host: elmer.wrq.com

I posted the following question a couple months ago and didn't get any 
responses... Could someone whose got the scoop on this get back to me and/or   
the net??   Thanks!!!

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 23:00 GMT
From: Alan Haff <ALANH%WRQ@mcimail.com>
Subject: Vertical Interval Data

If memory serves, a dozen or so years ago several manufacturers offered tvs that
could 'read' data contained in the vertical interval. None of them seem to wav-
ing flags about the capability today. What happened? Do all of them do it now
(putting the capability on par with electronic tuning thus eliminating any mar-
keting advantage)? Were the results so unimpressive/detrimental the idea was
dropped? Has the data been changed/eliminated so it's no longer useful/access-
ible?

If vertical interval data is still used by televisions, what do most (esp. svhs)
vcrs do with it? Do they just record the data and pass it on to the set on play-
back; make adjustments based on the data, not record it and generate their own
on playback; or both adjust to and record/playback the original data?

If someone who's got the line on this could post/email, I'd sure appreciate
it...

Alan Haff
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Need Video Editing Recommendations
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:15:51 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1ictiqINNlpa@hp-col.col.hp.com> chrism@col.hp.com (Chris Magnuson) writes:
<
<  I would like to produce an amateur video, but would like it to look
<professional.  What I envision is that I could have 2 different source tapes
<combined through a mixer into a master, with the source tapes under remote
<control to control playback points, etc.
<
<  I would be interested in hearing from others about what kind of equipment
<they have to accomplish this process.  I also will need to do things like
<fades, wipes, character gen, etc.

Sounds like $100,000 to me.
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From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Need Video Editing Recommendations
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:02:51 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <1993Jan6.221756.13413@sharebase.com>, ted@airplane.sharebase.com (Ted Marshall) writes:
> In article <1993Jan6.004150.4824@spcvxb.spc.edu> killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) writes:
>>	Two Feral Industries C-100N			$ 3,000
> 				[...]
>>							-------
>>							$ 7,220
>>
>>[...]  I will cut in the video from the TR-101 tape as needed.  
>>Since the TBC's keep everything in sync I can just switch between the two 
>>video sources.
> 
> Have you considered using a Panasonic mixer instead of the two TBCs?

Yes I did.

> I'd be interested to know if there is a reason (other than resolution)
> that you're avoiding the mixers.

The primary reason was resolution.  However the Ferals also have full RS422 
control.  I can control input select and freeze frame from my PC.

Ted avoid might be too strong a word - it implies a negative.  It was a case 
of I had the extra money to spend an felt this would allow me the most options 
in the future.  Also I copy everything through the TBC's now and I want the 
resolution.

-- 
Jeff Killeen - DECUS U.S. Chapter NLC Chair | Email:killeen@eisner.decus.org

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: rhoades@ll.mit.edu (Captain Chaos)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS code conflicts in TV Guide
Keywords: vcr+
Date: 6 Jan 93 22:41:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <4696@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>Like I said in a previous posting, get a VCR that doesn't lose time when
>the power goes out.  Doing that ahead of time would have saved the expense
>of buying another gadget.
>

Oh now this is good advice.  Why buy a $90 gadget?  Just throw away that
$500 VCR and get a different $500 VCR instead!  And if you live in an area
where 1/2 hr memory backup won't do, then I'm sure you'd suggest buying a
$1000 uninterruptable power supply for the system, right?

Andrew
rhoades@ll.mit.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS code conflicts in TV Guide
Keywords: vcr+
Organization: SAR Systems Development & Processing, JPL
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:43:39 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.042055.9206@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
>In article <1993Jan04.211801.3124@microsoft.com> gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
>
>>I've been quitely ignoring this thread until know.  

>>Would somebody explain to me why you would go to all the trouble 
>>of firing up a PC to create VCR+ codes and then entering them 
>>instead of just programming your damn VCR the regular way?

>>It sould like using a chainsaw to cut butter if you ask me.

>Well if it were a 500 pound pat of butter a chainsaw might be the
>answer.
>
>But - let me ask you this.   Have you ever put a program into a VCR,
>gone away for a few days, and come back to find nothing recorded, all
>because power went out and wiped out the programming in the VCR.
>
>That's the joy of the VC+.    It's a battery device, and as long as the
>power is on when you want to record the program, it activates your vcrs
>remote control section, and away you go.

Once again - get an intelligent universal remote then, one with a built-in
clock and timer. (Like the Memorex CP-8. Not only can this thing learn
the individual functions of your other remotes, but you can program in
"macros", i.e., assign a sequence of keys to another key. Also, you can
program it to trigger a key or sequence of keys or sequence of macros
at any arbitrary time. One of the features I like about my Sony remotes
is their "system off" button, which sends out power-off codes for all
Sony products. However, it doesn't do anything for my non-Sony gear. You
can get the same convenience by assigning a sequence of power-off codes
to a single CP-8 key, tho....)
-- 
  -- Howard Chu @ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

There's a rough border between genius and insanity, but I'm a dual citizen.
From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Help! 31" or 35" Mitsubishi?
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:48:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Mississippi State University

geier@xylogics.com (Marcia Geier) writes:

>HELP! I need advice from informed consumers!

>I went into a sale intending to purchase a 31" Mitsubishi
>and came out with an order for a 35". Here are my concerns
>(can anyone give me advice based on these concerns???):

dear marcia,
congratulations on your purchase.  if you got a good deal, keep it.  you
will probably own the tv for, what, 10 yrs.  looking in my crystal ball
i see you moving into a large castle with a 19-in tv and you will be
very happy to rpelace it with this one.
:-)
patrick

--
John Patrick Lestrade        
cnesta::lestrade                       Let's try again in '96!
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Newsgroups: rec.video