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From: jpardina@ITESO.BITNET
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: (none)
Date: 9 Jan 93 02:18:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

I ASK FOR HELP TO SOLVE THE FOLLOWING TROUBLE CONCERNING WITH
PLAYING A LASER DISC:
I BOUGHT TWO MONTHS AGO A PIONEER CLD-990 DISK PLAYER AND TWO WEEKS
AGO THE "BATMAN RETURNS" VIDEO DISK. THE THIRD SIDE OF THIS VIDEO
DISK IS STANDARD PLAY, THAT MEANS CAV, AND IT'S THE ONLY CAV
DISK THAT I OWN. THE TROUBLE IS THAT THE IMAGE FROM THIS "THIRD
SIDE" GET NOISY, NOISE WHICH INCREMENTS AS THE PLAYER REACH THE
LAST CHAPTERS. WHEN THE PLAYER BRINGS A FREEZE FRAME, MOST NOISE
REMAINS IN THE SAME PLACE OVER THE IMAGE.
IS THAT NORMAL FOR CAV DISKS ?
DOES THIS PARTICULAR DISK MAY HAVE AN EDITION TROUBLE ?
CAN THE PLAYER BE THE TROUBLE ?
I WOULD APPRECIATE IF THIS QUESTIONS CAN BE ANSWERED OR IF YOU CAN
GIVE ME INFORMATION TO WHERE SHOULD I ASK.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: caro@adobe.com (Perry A. Caro)
Subject: Re: Control-L and Control-S question
Reply-To: caro@adobe.UUCP  (Perry A. Caro)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:26:58 GMT

In a related question, is a Control-S cable just a stereo mini-plug
cable, or is it something special?  Perhaps it is a mini-mini-plug
cable?

While I'm at it ... I have an old EV-100 with a hardwired male
Control-L "Player" cable.  This makes it impossible to use my Sony
camcorder (with Control-L mini-mini-jack) as the player.  I've read
that there is a male to female converter for Control-L, which would
allow me to use the male-5-pin-to-mini-mini-plug Control-L cable that I
already have.  Does anyone know if this is true, and the part number?

Thanks,

Perry
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jmj@antwrp.antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov (Agent Snagnorf)
Subject: Discount LD mail order?
Organization: Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Science Support Center
Distribution: us
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:22:11 GMT


Greetings!

Anyone know of a discount mail order place for LDs?

--Jim

jmj@enemy.gsfc.nasa.gov

EOM
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wgcho@cair.kaist.ac.kr (Cho Wongyu)
Subject: Closed Caption
Organization: Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, KAIST.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 04:59:50 GMT

Hello.
Does anyone know if it is possible to view closed caption characters without 
any caption-capable video playor or laser-disc player? 
I am not interested in viewing caption characters from network TV. I only want
it from video and laser discs. I think it may be possible by putting some independent
caption decoder within the connection of the TV and the video player. 
Is this right?

Thanks in advance,

Wongyu Cho

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From: pi@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com (Paul Ilgenfritz)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:23:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Need Video Editing Recommendations
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Newsgroups: rec.video


> I would like to produce an amateur video, but would like it to look
> professional.

Having been exposed to video production through community college courses
I am amazed at the big difference between amateur and professional video
production.  You are asking to do something which is not easy.

If you have a one time production it would be cheaper to hire a student
film-maker and rent time in a post-production facility than to purchase
equipment.

A more reasonable approach is to plan your production so the most
expensive features are not needed.  Fades, wipes, and other multiple
source effects require 3 or more VCR's, TBCs, and a mixer (like a video
toaster).  One sure sign of an amateur production, however, is the
IMPROPER use of these effects.  A basic film-making book would explain
when transitional effects should be used.  You are likely to find that
they are unecessary or have straight cut equivalents.

A second difficult and expensive production feature to avoid is
synchronized sound.

Both multiple source editing and synchronized sound require either
tremendous physical coordination or time code based, computer controlled
equipment.

Without these production techniques you can simply edit with two VCRs and
then insert non-sync audio.  It is easy and reasonably cheap to get
professional results (except for generational loss) on consumer equipment.

What I am really saying is that expensive technology is not best way to
make a production look professional.  It is more important to have proper
framing of shots, composition of shots, camera movement, lighting,
continuity of editing, and pacing.  Once these techniques are mastered,
you can invest in advanced postproduction techniques and get the full
value of that investment.

That said, it certainly would be nice for some company to break the
artificial barrier which is preventing computer controlled equipment from
reaching the consumer price range.

Good Luck!

- Paul Ilgenfritz, TV/Film producer/director wannabe
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wkmpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (W. Keith McManus)
Subject: Re: digital video camcorders?
Followup-To: rec.video
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:50:31 GMT

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


W. Keith McManus
=================================================
Rochester Institute of Technology
Applied Photography Department - Photojournalism
Rochester, New York

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: recording quality of 4-head vs. 2-head VCR
Keywords: VCR
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:39:17 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <lkm5faINNjvc@grit.cs.utexas.edu> cmc@cs.utexas.edu (Chi Ming Cheung) writes:
<In article <4701@vidiot.UUCP+ brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<+
<+But it will make a difference.  A four-head machine has two heads cut
<+specifically sized for SP mode, which yields a better picture because of the
<+better S/N ratio.
<
<How about for playbacks?
<I have a two-head player that does a lousy job at recording but seems to 
<do okay playing previously recorded materials.  Is it true for all two
<head players?

Pre-recorded tapes use wide head machines.  Two-headed models do real good
with those tapes.  Four-headed models will do a little better.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: t90534am@sfc.keio.ac.jp (Akira Mito)
Subject: HDTV home VCR
Organization: Department of Environmental Information,Keio University Shonan
	Fujisawa Campus(SFC),Japan.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 07:23:58 GMT

 Hi, JVC(Japan Victor Corp.) just announced W-VHS, that can record
and play Hi-Vision(Japanese HDTV). It is upper compatible to
conventional VHS. It supports multi-channel digital sound, too.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Akira Mito(E-Mail:t90534am@sfc.keio.ac.jp)
  Junior@SFC(Keio Univ. Shownan Fujisawa Campus) 
  Department: Environmental Information (It's so COOL,isn't it?)
  Director of the SFC Hi-Vision Club, and member of SFC TiME, C-music.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jshelton@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (james.a.shelton)
Subject: RCA TV Picture Problem (F27230ES)
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:48:33 GMT
Keywords: RCA,Video,picture,27230ES

last week I purchases a 27" RCA TV.   Consumer reports rated it as having the
best picture in its class, so I was expecting close to perfection from this
$700 set.  When I got it home and set it up, I discovered that there was a
strange brightness along the top 2 inches of the screen that is noticable
when a dark screen is displayed (ie. an image of outer space from Star Trek).
This brightness is a looks similiar to a light white aurora borealis about
an inch or so wide running along the top of the screen.  The brightness and
contrast controls may be used to eliminate the problem, but the settings
have to be set so low that a lot of the detail in the picture is eliminated.

I attempted to isololate the problem by using a good VCR with a prerecorded
tape as a signal source.  The brightness was still there.  I also looked
around for obvious sources of magnetic and radio interferance.  I couldn't
find any.  

Figuring that it was a calibration problem, I went back to the WIZ and
exchanged the set.  (No problems... I was really surprised)  Unfortunately
the new set behaves exactly the same way as the old set.  I attempted
to contact RCA, and reached the support company they have contracted with.
They sugest I exchange the set again.  There is no record of this kind of
problem -- and the set has been sold for over a year.  The other alternative
is to call it in for service -- making it imposible to return the product
for a refund.  

Has anyone else experienced similiar problems with this model?  What could
be causing this problem?  Does anyone know a number I can reach RCA techical
support?  The customer relations person I talked with told me she could
not get the RCA technical people involved unless a repair shop had the 
same problem 3 times.

Thanks for any input,

Jim Shelton

908-576-6326
jas@hover.att.com


Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
Subject: Closed Captioning for Computer Geeks
Keywords: like me!
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:20:04 GMT

OK, I've been thinking about getting a closed caption
decoder for some time.  A while ago I saw someone on the net
mention that one of the video cards for the Mac could
decode CC information as text to monitor programs (the
example he gave was having the Mac bring up CNN in a window
whenever "Gulf War" came over the CC).

Now, if I could find a CC decoder that would send text to my
computer over the serial line or something, I'd write a
check right now.  Where can I get such a thing?  What would it
take to build one from off the shelf CC components?

And why are CC boxes so expensive still?

ab
From: ebraeden@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric W Braeden)
Subject: Recommendations on TR81 and Comments on TR200
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:37:11 GMT


I've decided to buy the Sony TR81 after having looked at the Sony models
and clones and reading this newsgroup for six months. I will be using it 
in Europe and the USA. Besides a spare battery pack, what else will I find
myself wanting with the camcorder? Are those converter packs for AA bateries
really useful?

One observation I like to make is about the Sony TR200. Yes, the fast
focusing system is great. Yes, the lithium-ion battery is probably the
standard of tomorrow. IMHO, however, don't let these slick new features
suck you into buying this machine. It just doesn't have the quality of
the other Sonys. For one, the plastic guide rails for the eye-tube are
enough to make a technophile sick. The units I saw in the local stores
were actually grinding themselves to dust from all the handling over
Christmas!! The base unit was equally bad: sloppy plastic againts plastic.
I was NOT impressed. I kept thinking, "Scheisse, alle Scheisse!" If you 
want Sony's new technology, better models than the TR200 must be ready
soon. Skip over the TR200. 

Eric

-- 
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Ohio State University              | doch das Nuetzte am Ende nicht viel"
ebraeden@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu | Peter Schilling   120 Grad    1983
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: djed@decvax.DEC.COM (David Jedlinsky UEG/Shells and Utilities)
Subject: Re: Video monitor loop in A/V receiver?
Reply-To: djed@decvax.DEC.COM (David Jedlinsky UEG/Shells and Utilities)
Organization: Ultrix Engineering Group
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 23:29:47 GMT

In article <1iogm7INN5eb@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, as719@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jun Guo) writes:
|>    Is there any A/V receiver that has a video monitor loop
|> so that I can connect something like a CC decoder in the loop?

My Pioneeer VSX-9300 has a "Video Processor" button, which is simply a video
monitor loop (allows the signal to be processed after a source has been
selected).

|> 
|>    And also is there any A/V receiver that has more than one
|> audio monitor loop?

Again on the 9300, you could cheat by using both Tape 2 (which can be used as
an audio monitor loop), and the pre-amp out/power-amp in as a second loop.

|>    Thanks.
|> 
|> Jun

-Dave
opus@athena.mit.edu
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Anybody want to sell me a JVC HR-S7000U or HR-S8000U?
Date: 6 Jan 93 05:08:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan5.161938.9818@bnr.ca> dwjz@bnr.ca (Doug Zolmer) writes:
<The JVC HR-S7000U and HR-S8000U are the best S-VHS VCRs I've ever seen.  
<It's a real shame they were discontinued three years ago.  Anybody have a 
<used one (either model, in excellent condition) that they want to sell?
<
<I've had my HR-S7000U for 4 years now and I want to get a second VCR.
<Nothing on the market has the same features - for example:
<
<- Program the VCR while it's recording, even while it's timer recording. 

Not according to my HR-S8000U manual.  If a timer recording is currently
taking place, all other programs can be checked and/or re-programmed.
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From: mani@raunvis.hi.is (M'ani Thorsteinsson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: NTSC->PAL Hardware needed!
Date: 12 Jan 93 02:16:34 GMT
Distribution: rec


          Hi.   I definitly, absolutely, most certainly need a machine
that converts between THE systems. Does anyone know where I can find one
new or used and what prices are going around.

                               Thanks. Bye.               Koni.
From: joeo@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Joe Oliverio)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:45:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Need Video Editing Recommendations
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: rec.video

>/ hpscit:rec.video / killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) /  9:41 pm  Jan  5, 1993 / writes:


>Since the TBC's keep everything in sync I can just switch between the two 
>video sources.

----------

Unless you neglected to mention it, you are leaving one important point out.
It's true a TBC will provide a stable synch with which to edit, but you still 
need to "synch" the TBCs to the same external source. 

This is a point often overlooked but very important. Once you have the TBCs in
synch with each other, and any thing else you use as an input, then you can 
switch between the sources without editing glitches.

And make sure the TBCs have a proc amp and provision for adjusting horizontal
and sub carrier timing ( most do ). You will have to time all sources going 
into the switcher to compensate for signal delays in the line. And you will 
have to compensate for color differences, or phasing, between signals also
using the sub-carrier phase adjustements.

Once you have all that done, then you can use the proc amp to make fine adjust-
ments to luminence and chroma level, chroma phase and setup.

Or as a previous responder mentioned, use a frame synch like the Pana AV5 that 
has two internal frame buffers and an internal synch clock. Since all timing
is internal to the box, you don't have to worry about timing and phase adjust-
ments. But it does lack proc amp control.

Joe Oliverio
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Re: Macrovision hilarity--get THIS!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:10:45 GMT

jerry@hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:

>Got me to thinking . . .

>Does anyone know of any video stores that purchased just one copy of a movie
>and then duplicated a bunch to meet their rental needs?

    Not specifically, but yes, it's been done.  They also get the Laserdisc
versions to make VHS copies, because that doesn't come out much worse than
the crappy transfer pressings that half the companies do to duplicate
their tapes.

    This is supposedly why Disney isn't releasing the LD of _Beauty & the
Beast_ until late fall.  They don't want people in foreign markets using
it to create rental copies.

--
   Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
      "Hate is not a family value.  Boycott Colorado." - Melinda Shore
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jeremym@ravel.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz)
Subject: Re: Any way to *CREATE* VCR Plus codes??
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 02:03:35 GMT


Ah yes, but not only was that code recently (again?) posted, but others, which
do the job - better even. Infinate days. Just plug your dates and go.
Besides, there's a decoder, too, for a purpose of which I can see for
testing - - but for none other.

In any event.. alt.sources just got the post of the encoder.c and the 
decoder.c, so *THAT'S* the last word. No need to repost that message
every time this question comes up... just point them to an alt.sources
FTP cite. 

Thanks for all your help. 

-jem

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From: joeo@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Joe Oliverio)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:04:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Money to spend
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: rec.video

/ hpscit:rec.video / harkin@cs.montana.edu (Gary Harkin) /  4:02 pm  Jan  8, 1993 / writes:

>Since I know very little about video, I thought I might get some good
>ideas from those of you that do.  Any suggestions/ideas would be
>appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

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----------

I have a great idea for you Gary. SEND ME $50.00... and then I will tell you 
the other great ideas I have! :) ( These midwesterners are soo easy. :) )

Joe ( just kidding Gary ) Oliverio

P.S. If you could be more specific with your request for information Iam sure
there are many on this notes group who would be happy to answer them.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: lon@edsi.plexus.COM (Lon Ponschock)
Subject: Tape Rewinder Recommendations, please
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 17:27:33 GMT
Summary: Request for info
Keywords: Rewinders


==>  I just returned for cash a rewinder which made a lot of 
noise.

	Recently in this forum there was discussion of how rewinders eat 
tapes.

	 A recommendation for an a/v quality rewinder from a catalogue 
or magazine which is:

                        Fast
                        Reliable
                   Brakes at the end of rewind


would be appreciated.  I'm sure others would appreciate this 
information as well.

Thanks in advance.  :-)

lon
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: karr@cs.cornell.edu (David Karr)
Subject: Re: Anyone take their camcorder skiing this season? (hints wanted)
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:28:19 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.102629.28738@bristol.ac.uk> P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>The 'victim' had been out skiing with his camcorder.  A gentle slope,
>so he was coasting along slowly while video-ing, using the camera as
>designed -- i.e. with his eye to the viewfinder.  He didn't spot a
>fairly small rock near the edge of the trail -- too small to show up in
>the finder -- [...]

I wonder if he had both eyes open, and if not, whether it would have
helped.  I find that the eye not on the viewfinder is very helpful
for figuring out what's really in the picture (I have a B&W viewfinder),
what's about to come into the picture, and whether the framing could
be improved.  In fact I think I really view the scene with my left eye
and use the right only to find out what part is getting recorded.
(Since I have a dominant right eye, maybe I'd be better off with a
left-eye viewfinder, but that's another topic.)

-- David Karr (karr@cs.cornell.edu)


Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Re: HERE IS VCR Plus source code
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 19:56:54 GMT

Is the code availale on an ftp site somewhere? Or could someone mail me a
copy?

Is the text of the article similarly available?

Tom

-- 
Tom Johnson             "They say Confucious does his crossword with a pen."
tj@cs.ucla.edu                               -Tori Amos
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.releases,rec.arts.movies
From: robbo@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Dave Robinson)
Subject: Re: Video cassette mail-order store wanted in USA
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:06:07 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

R.E. Hunt (reh10@cus.cam.ac.uk) wrote:
: I live in England and am having difficulty obtaining some films I want to see
: on video. Since I have a VHS video recorder which can play-back NTSC videos on
: my (PAL) television set, the ideal solution would be for me to find a video
: outlet in the USA somewhere which is prepared to mail video tapes overseas.
: Obviously I need somewhere that has a very large range of tapes available, and
: that has a comprehensive catalogue of their mail-order tapes which they could
: send me.
: 
: I'd be very grateful if anyone out there who knows of such a store could let me
: know, either over the net or via Email. It would obviously be useful if you
: could also include details of the approximate size and range of its stock, and
: how much money I would have to send in order to receive a catalogue (of course
: I would probably just send them my VISA credit-card number) - but don't be put
: off if you don't know. Thanks!

	Here's a suggestion! Contact the following company with a list of
Amercian videos you are looking for. It might be possible for this company
to arrange to get them and ship them to you. It might also be a new
business venture for this company. It is owned and run by an ex-Brit. She
specialises in transferring videos between PAL and NTSC (private not copy
righted material). As you are requesting NTSC versions she might be able to help
and get a decent price for you.



	RVT
	1911 Douglas Boulevard #85
	Roseville
	CA 95661.
	(916) 773-3705

	
Regards


Dave Robinson
KD6MXD
Newsgroups: rec.video