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From: 00sdriddle@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Wonder Woman Wanted!
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:27:09 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video,misc.wanted
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X-Summary: episodes of Wonder Woman tv series wanted on vhs tape
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	I'd like to get episodes of Wonder Woman on vhs tape.  I have
12 episodes and would like to get the rest of them.  I can pay for
shipping expenses and the cost of tapes or can offer a a time-for-
time trade.  I some episodes of the following shows to offer:

	The Bionic Woman, Invaders, Kolchak: the Night Stalker(2),
Logan's Run, Max Headroom, Misfits of Science, Otherworld, Red Dwarf,
Salvage One (2), $6,000,000 man, Space: 1999, Star Cops, Tucker's
Witch (2), UFO, Wizards and Warriors, Wonder Woman (12).

	Besides Wonder Woman, I am looking for Bionic Woman episodes
I don't have as well as Kolchak:the Night Stalker.  I am also
looking for the rest of Tucker's Witch and episodes of Voyagers.
	If you see anything in my list and have something on tape
I don't have listed as wanted, write anyway, I'm looking for so 
many things on tape.
	A more detailed list is available upon request.

--------------------------------
Steve Riddle
116 Tanglewood Drive
Anderson IN 46012
00sdriddle@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
From: gihan@bmerh886.BNR.CA (Gihan Karunaratne)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Dolby Surround on TV
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:09:54 GMT
Reply-To: gihan@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research

In article <SS.92Oct9080101@wpi.WPI.EDU>, ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott
Streeter) writes:
|>>>>>> On 8 Oct 92 19:01:10 GMT, stud1b53@bnr.ca (Anshu Prasad) said:
|>
|>stud1b53> Beverly Hills 90210 (ok, so I watch the show occasionally,

|>
|>Once I got my Surrond Processor a few months back, I was amazed at how
|>many shows have Surround in the brodcast. Even the commercals,
|>cartoons, etc....Shows I have noticed are: Quantaum Leap, Star Trek
|>The Next Generation, Young Indiana Jones, Northern Exposure, Batman:
|>The Animated Series, SNL, Seinfeld, and many more I can't think of
|>right now...
|>
|>--

Add to that Dinosaurs, The Arsenio Hall Show, Hearts Afire

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Gihan R. Karunaratne    
Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1Y 4H7 
e-mail: gihan@BNR.CA (INTERNET)

"All flesh is grass"
                -- Isiah
Smoke a friend today.
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From: will@celia.UUCP (Will McCown)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Help Save My Sony 27" TV
Date: 8 Oct 92 14:55:49 GMT
Reply-To: celia!will@usc.edu (Will McCown)
Distribution: na
Organization: Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood

In article <1992Oct7.154028.15358@linus.mitre.org> m14494@mwvm.mitre.org (Mike White) writes:
>
>Ummm... I'm not a TV repair kind of guy, but I'll go out on a limb here.

Ok, I climb out with you and then saw it off. :-)

>I thought the whole point behind the Sony Trinitron tube was there there
>was only one electron gun, not three as in other tubes.  Therefore,
>if you are seeing any picture at all, it seems to me that the tube must
>be working.  This points to the electronics that drives the tube. 

In this case "one gun" refers to a single set of focusing plates.  There
are still three separate cathodes in the tube.  The most-likely problem
with gutierrez@mdcbbs.com's set is that one of these cathodes is no longer 
emmitting electons like it used to.

Interestingly enough Sony hold a patent on what can be truly called a
"one gun" system.  (They also use the trade-name Trinitron in the patent).
This system involves multiplexing the red, green, and blue signals into
a single beam of electrons, timed so that the red signal corresponds to
the beam passing the red stripe of phosphor and so on.  There is no
shadow mask.  The beam multiplex is kept in phase by a feedback signal
from a set of conductive stripes set between the blue and red phospher
stripes.  I believe this system is used (or was used) in their color
watchman (before Color LCDs became so common).  The geometry of the folded
CRT made a conventional shadow mask nearly impossible. 

-- 

Will McCown, Rhythm & Hues, Inc., Hollywood CA. (213) 851-6500
INTERNET: celia!will@usc.edu     or willmc@alumni.caltech.edu
From: borowski@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Don T. Borowski)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: RF to A/V
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:28:53 GMT
Article-I.D.: hpspkla.44480012
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.

In rec.video, wee@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (william.e.erickson) writes:

>The set top box supplied by my cable company is RF output only.  Is there
>a device available to 'convert' this to baseband (A/V jacks)?  The cable
>box must be used as channel selector, this cable company scrambles 
>everything.
>
>                   ----------        ----------          -----------
>      From         | Cable  |        |        |---(A)--->| Monitor/|
>      Street(RF)-->|  Box   |-(RF)-->|?device?|          |   TV/   |
>                   |        |        |        |---(V)--->|   VCR   |
>                   ----------        ----------          -----------

Yes, the most common form of this device is called a VCR.  Why, you could
even get an old junker with a mechanical problem for this job.


Donald Borowski    WA6OMI    Hewlett-Packard, Spokane Division
"Angels are able to fly because they take themselves so lightly."
                                       -G.K. Chesterton
From: kimon@thing.ece.cmu.edu (Kimon Michaels)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Tape stretching
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:53:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon

My Hi-Fi VCR (Emerson VCS977A) has started to stretch/crimp the bottom edge
of the tape. Needless to say this is bad as it managed to ruin a couple of
tapes before I noticed. What are the potential causes/repairs for this
malady? Just dirty? Load mechanism misalignment?

Thanks for the help.
Kimon Michaels
Dept. of ECE
Carnegie Mellon Univ.
From: oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Godfather Aspect Ratio -Text Fixed
Date: 16 Oct 92 18:47:02 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video

In article <15OCT199219511334@pavo.concordia.ca>, lp_rath@pavo.concordia.ca (RATHE, LOUIS-PHILIPPE) writes:
> In article <81227@ut-emx.uucp>, copold@panam.edu (Steve Copold) writes...
>> 
>>Does anyone happen to know the original aspect ratio of the Godfather
>>films? I've never seen, or heard of, a letterboxed or matted version.
>>Does this mean that they were shot at the older format of 1.37:1 ? If
> 
> Where did you get this 1.37:1? never heard of that one. Must be
> 1.33:1 or 1:85:1 if in Wide-Screen? Hummm... Interesting 1.37:1,
> I'll look for that one. I know some old movies like Murnau's
> Sunrise was in a 1:1 format. Anyway later.

While it seems not to be too widely known (although far from a secret), good
old standard Academy format is 1.37:1. Silent films were 1.33:1, but this was
modified for several reasons to 1.37:1 about the time sound came along. The
biggest reason, as I understand it, was to allow a small separation between
frames. I guess it's just habit that causes people to refer to Academy format
as 1.33:1.

R. Kevin Oberman			Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Internet: koberman@llnl.gov		(510) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Stupid Answer Time (Was: Stupid Question Time)
Date: 6 Oct 92 06:11:26 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <4955RB11w165w@jybox.jyu.fi> otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
<brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<
<> BTW, the letter that I posted earlier to Television Broadcasting will be
<> printed in a future edition.  I got a call from them today.  They will be
<> showing the letter to Macrovision and also printing their response.  It will
<> be another couple of months.
<
<(Tried mailing, vidiot.uucp is unknown here in reindeer country...)

vidiot.uucp will fail anyway...system problems along the way (not mine).

<Let us know what they reply, as getting this magazine here is a bit
<difficult (and also pretty futile, as it handles the North American
<situation).  Looking forward to hearing the MacroVision people's
<answers...

When I see the letter in print and the Macrovision reply, I will post what
is said.
-- 
      harvard\                          spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
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                                   brown@wi.extrel.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Bankruptcy of Video & Laserdisc Stores
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 05:37:58 GMT

It doesn't take a presidential candidate to see that a lot of busi-
nesses, large and small, are going belly-up and those that are still
alive are firing lots of workers.  I am wondering how this has
affected stores selling video hardware/software and especially those
heavily committed to laserdiscs.  I invite your comments.

The immediate cause of this query was the closing (due to bankruptcy) last
week of a small local video store (Video Replay in Stow, Ohio -an Akron
suburb).  It had been in business 10 years and supported beta and
laserdisc formats from its earliest days.  Beta hardware
disappeared from their shelves several years ago and they sold all
their beta tapes a year or two ago.  But laserdiscs seemed to be
doing well.  They had a reasonable sized (and growing) laserdisc
library for rent.  They were one of the first stores in all NE Ohio
to rent laserdiscs and, until recently the ONLY store within 30
miles of my house where I could rent them.

I am perhaps overly nostalgic because this was the store that introduced
me to laserdiscs, the place where I bought my first player.  The owners
may have just mismanaged their business (in the past couple of years
they began emphasizing higher priced lines, like Elite, and big-ticket
items, like large screen TVs).  But times are bad, especially
in the video/electronics business.  Two large appliance chains, which
largely sold video/audio equipment in NE Ohio, failed last spring.

While the failure of this particular store is of little direct interest
to any of the rest of you, I am curious -How widespread is this?
How is the "recession/not-recession" economy affecting similar stores
in other areas?  As has already been mentioned on the net, we are seeing
a lot more "sales" of laserdiscs and more widespread price reductions
from the distributors (Image has been most aggressive recently).  Is
this just a sign of the maturity of the laserdisc market or of the
declining economy?  Or both?
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-- 
"Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his
  life there exists only a difference of degree." -Emperor Paul Muad'dib 
      Bill Cruce, INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom, VOICE: 216-325-2511
   N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown OH 44272-0095
From: d_luk@pavo.concordia.ca (LUK, DEREK)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: CLD701s and VSXD1Ss
Date: 13 Oct 92 19:25:00 GMT
Organization: Concordia University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

A most suitable combo for the serious "Art of Entertainment" seeker would
most likely be a CLD701/VSX901 combo at the moment. But I'd like to know more
about the D1S ProLogic amp, which is only about $150 more than the VSX901.
If a home setup was to be:

Mits U82
Panasonic AG1960 (not yet - but it will be a SVHS machine)
Pioneer CLD701
any SVHS TV

Which amp would favour this system? The D1S has SVHS inputs... does the 901
have these? I would like an amp that would choose between which SVHS vcr to
be source, and destination, or both become destination as recording from the
SVHS signal that the D701 can put out.

I don't want to buy a VSX901 and regret not getting the D1S in the future!
Sorta like getting a fully loaded 386-40... with co pros and everything...
then wanting a 486-50 later on! Urk!

I B out with HDTV...

Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.production,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: harlock@rahul.net (Mike Harlock)
Subject: Re: (Sub)titling info NEEDED (desperately)
Organization: The Space Vessel Arcadia
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 00:06:29 GMT

In article <92282.170850DCA105@psuvm.psu.edu> David Asher <DCA105@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Like the header says, I need some info on video titling.  I'm planning to try
>subtitling some videos (Japanese animation) and I need to find a software
>package that will allow automatic subtitling from a timed script.  I also need
>to purchase an inexpensive (read CHEAP) genlock that is compatible with an
>Amiga 500 computer.  I have FTP capability, so if there's any PD/Shareware
>available on an FTP site that might do the job, I'd appreciate knowing.  The
>equipment I plan to use is as follows:
>
>Amiga 500,1Mb RAM,DOS1.3, 2 floppies
>A genlock to be named later (like AmiGen, miniGEN, etc. (CHEAP+simple))
>
>Pioneer Laserdisc player or 4-head VCR (input)
>4-head VCR (output)
>
>I currently have AmigaVision (1.0 it came with my computer), but since I don't
>have the manuals with me (I'm at college right now) I don't know if it'll do
>the trick.  I might buy TV*Text from someone ($20) if that will work.  Or I
>could FTP some software.  Or I could buy something totally new (if it's cheap
>enough).

I subtitle anime with an A3000 and a Supergen...but I started out with an
AmiGen and a 500 years ago....
Ok, AmigaVision won't do it for you.  Don't even try to write a script for it.
TVT Text is only a text generator...I don't htink it has any timing
abilites (At least TVT Pro doesn't>
Your best bet is to use the program I do, which is writtem by one
Thom Robertson, who is on the net, but who's address I do not have
handy.  That program is made just for that purpose.
However, I use Broadcast Titler to do all the opening and ending credits,
because of it's perfect looking fonts and incredible effect functions.
<rolling creds, etc.>

>What I'd like to know is: What's a decent genlock for under $200 and does
>anyone have a used one they want to sell?                  (ie it titles in
>color, selectable font sizes, 2-color (like outline) fonts, etc.)
>that will hookup to my A500 without degrading the video signal much.  Anyone
>got one for sale?   What's a software program that allows timed-script
>titling?  Any reccomendations/suggestions/remarks/etc. ?

For under 200, it's either the AmiGen $100 or the MiniGen $200 (I think)
>+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+


-- 
 _____________________________________________________________________________
| harlock@rahul.net  (Mike "Harlock" Massee)| Arcadian Productions Subtitling |
|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Graphics/Titles            //   |
|   Head Guru, Foothill A.N.I.M.E. Club     | Conventions     Amiga!  \\//    |
From: ahummel@ems.cdc.com (H. Austin Hummel)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: How do different LD Players compare?
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:57:18 GMT
Reply-To: you@ems.cdc.com
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC

In article <BP.92Oct8204201@hobbes.cs.brown.edu>, bp@cs.brown.edu (Boris Putanec) writes:
|> 
|> Can most people actually tell the difference between the various
|> brands/models of LD players? For example, set up an LD-1090 and a
|> LD-3090 side by side. Could someone tell which output was which?
|> Between a LD-3090 and an MDP-666?
|> 
|> Are features the major price driver?
|> 
Yes, the CLD-1090 does not play both sides automatically
         CLD-2090 does play both sides automatically
         CLD-3090 both sides and the ability to stop action on CLV
                  + pther features
       On these three models - the picture and sound output is identical
       so I have bene told. 

So determine what you want and buy. My recommmendation is one that has
the features of the CLD-3090 or more.
From: emarsh@hernes-sun.Eng.Sun.COM (Eric Marsh)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Top 10 Fav films?
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:04:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: hernes-sun

In article <wg2zxk+@rpi.edu> kimp@rpi.edu writes:
> Okay, my List-Your-Laserdisc didn't work out, so how about your Top 10 Favorite films of all time?  I need (or want) to expand my tiny video library and would value others opinion.

This is my list (in no particular order):

Star Wars
Allegro Non Troppo
2001
A Clockwork Orange
The Stunt Man
Bruster McCloud
The Wicker Man
Dr. Strangelove
The King of Hearts
Koyanoskotsi (My best guess at a spelling)

Eric
From: wowoc@acs.ucalgary.ca (Witold Owoc)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Louis de Funes
Date: 9 Oct 92 15:18:45 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: The University of Calgary, AB, Canada

His movie "La Folie des grandeurs" will be shown this Saturday (1992-10-09)
at 22:35 (10:35PM) in each time zone on CBC-French channel. This channel
is "in clear" on a satellite.

I also found a source to his movies on VHS NTSC tapes - but they are
dubbed in Polish. Send me e-mail if you want details.

Witold Owoc <wowoc@acs.ucalgary.ca>

#disclaimer "my.private.views"
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Dolby Surround on TV
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Date: 11 Oct 92 16:29:27 EST
Organization: Wright State University 


In article <1992Oct08.190110.8902@bmerh85.bnr.ca>, stud1b53@bnr.ca (Anshu Prasad) writes:
>   Perhaps this isn't the right group for this question, but
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me which television programs
> are currently being broadcast in Dolby Surround.  I wasn't aware
> that this was being done until I noticed last night the Dolby
> Surround logo during the opening credits of Beverly Hills 90210
> (ok, so I watch the show occasionally, sue me :-).  Is there a list
> of all Dolby Surround tv shows available via anonymous ftp anywhere?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> */=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*
> Anshu Prasad                                        stud1b53@bnr.ca
> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
> -> The opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of
>    my employer, Bell Northern Research Ltd.
> */=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*/=*
 A few shows that I know that are broadcast in Dolby are Star Trek:TNG;
LateNigtht With David Letterman, and the Simpsons.  Dolby encoded movies on
HBO,Cinemax, etc. are also sent out with Dolby tracks in tact.
     
 
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: datri@egsner.cirr.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: CH LD Club, what should I get?
Organization: Central Iowa (Model) Railroad, Dallas, Tx.
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:28:00 GMT


>repeating old news.)  I was just sent a "rejoin for Christmas" offer from
>Columbia House, and while the STAR WARS trilogy is definitely among the
>offered titles, they are NOT the letterboxed versions.  Not only are they
>not so marked in the descriptions, but the covers shown are definitely the
>P&S versions.  Other letterboxed titles are listed, correctly.

I recently received a packet in the mail from them, directed at members
of Pioneer's "Performance Plus" marketing "club".  This deal is for *2* for
a buck with $1.50 each shipping, with a committment to buy one at "regular"
price.  The listed and displayed Star Wars discs are also here the P&S
ones.  They even have the nerve to include the old P&S Alien(s).

One thing that I haven't seen mentioned in this long-running metathread:
the get-the-three-Star-Wars-movies-cheap argument assumes that I'm interested
in those movies in the first place.  If these guys really wanted my business,
they'd make different decisions on what to publish in the first place:  I'd
never buy Working Girl, for example, but would dearly love to get A Charlie
Brown Christmas.

I must admit that CH has left a bad taste in my mouth:  back when I was a
stupid high school kid, I belonged to their LP club.  Their product was
clearly inferior:  thin platters, buggered cover art, crappy cover printing,
missing liner notes and other inclusions, and *cardboard inclusions* in the
platters.

>Perhaps they're losing a bit of money on these three?  One wonders what
>percentage of new members have popped for $210 (list) worth of SW discs as
>their introductory offer. :-)

I'd pay them $210 for A Charlie Brown Christmas, even if they did a crappy
transfer like the other Peanuts ones they've done.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: Copying protected tapes traceable?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:39:47 GMT


In article <1992Oct6.160405.4650@cs.mun.ca> craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Betsy Brett) writes:
>A friend of mine just told me that another friend's father used to rent movies
>and copy them.  Because they were protected, attempting copying them caused
>damage, so the store was able to trace it and charged him for the ruined tapes.

Sounds like your friend is pulling your leg (or incredibly clueless).

>I am just wondering if it is possible that trying to copy a copy-
>protected tape may end in altering the tape somehow??

Absolutely not.
From: AVFILM2@WATDCS.UWATERLOO.CA (Mark Ritchie)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: SMPTE Conference Workshops & Clinics
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:22:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9210160703.AA23320
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

During the SMPTE 134th Technical Conference and Exhibition, 10 - 13
Nov. 1992 in Toronto there will be a number of ongoing workshops and
clinics being offered.

1) Multimedia Workshop Program
   Hands-on workshops focusing on multimedia, featuring demonstrations
and close interaction with media integration technology, as opposed to a
lecture-type format.  One workshop will be offered each day of the
conference.  Multimedia Production - Tuesday; Teletraining and Distance
Learning - Wednesday;  Multimedia Communications - Thursday;  Information
Access and Retrieval - Friday.

2) Creativity Clinics
   These clinics are a new feature at the SMPTE Equipment Exhibition.
During these sessions, well-known industry experts will offer
demonstrations on the creative aspects of motion-picture and television
production.  Creative lighting techniques, underwater motion imaging,
audio effects and aerial filming are among the topics covered.


W. Mark Ritchie                    |    Tel: (519) 888-4070
Media Librarian                    |    Fax: (519) 888-6197
Audio-Visual Centre                |
University of Waterloo             | Ca*Net: avfilm2@watdcs.Uwaterloo.ca

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