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From: USERGRP@NCTAMSLANT.NAVY.MIL ("ANONYMOUS")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: BIG SCREEN PROJECTION TV
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:29:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I have been looking at big screen TVs and came across the Magnavox
61" projection TV.  Does anyone on the net have any experience with
this projection TV?  I know it is a rear projection unit with most
if not all most all of the bells and whistle currently available.
My question is how good is it in comparison to other units on the
market in its class?  Is $2199.97 a good price?  Any information
I can get from the net on this unit would be greatly appreciated. 
I'm really leaning hard toward a purchase and need a little push
if it is available.  Thanks John Hirsch sends...
USEGRP@NCTAMSLANT.NAVY.MIL
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Mitsu Indexing?
Date: 22 Nov 92 17:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <By0wA9.1Mz@ddsw1.mcs.com> jtl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Joe Lynn) writes:
<
<This may be a FAQ, but I'll try anyway:
<
<On my Mitsubishi U50, an "Index" is written at the beginning of
<every new recording.  Is this index readable by other brands of
<VCRs, or is it unique to Mitsubishi?

Yes, no.

BTW, if your U50 is like JVC machines, you can make it NOT put on the index.
Try going into play mode, pause at the point you want to start recording,
enter record mode (you'll still be paused) and then unpause.  That will
avoid putting on a mark where you don't want one.
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From: ee152fbw@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (Itoyoko)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: LANC specs
Keywords: LANC
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:05:43 GMT

I remember a few months ago, a site was named that had a file with
the
specs on the Sony LANC system, could somebody mail me the address
please?

IY
From: jpchou@camelot.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Chou)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: looks like 3030 upgrade time
Date: 23 Nov 1992 22:45:52 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jpchou@camelot.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: camelot

I am assuming you mean 3090 upgrade time, instead of 3030.  Well, I have a 3090
and it just broke AGAIN.  I took it into the service shop AGAIN.  The first
time, it cost $250 (2 ICs were bad) and took them 1 month to fix it.  This time,
the same problem cropped up again.  If the same 2 ICs are bad (as I suspect),
then something else might have caused the problem. 

Well, anyway, I am fed up with this!  I am currently dealing with Pioneer, hoping
that they will allow me to upgrade.

By the way, mine broke 1 month after the warranty expired.

Jeff

Xref: sparky rec.video:13696 rec.video.releases:3504
From: boisvert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Richard Boisvert)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.releases
Subject: Battlestar Galactica LD
Date: 18 Nov 1992 19:15:41 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

	Does anyone out there have the MCA laserdisc of Battlestar Galactica?
If so, could you please describe the quality to me (i.e. sound and picture 
quality).  Thanks.

-- 
Brian R. Boisvert    Worcester Polytechnic Institute    boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: stud1b53@bnr.ca (Anshu Prasad)
Subject: XBR^2 vs Gaoo Followup...
Reply-To: stud1b53@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 20:17:25 GMT

Some people expressed interest in getting some more details
about my side by side comparison of the XBR^2 and Gaoo.
Rather than emailing individually, I'll post to this group
tomorrow.  That way I can also include my results of the
Gaoo vs Superflat comparison I'm planning to conduct tonight.
Once again, I welcome all comments/questions... 

-- 
   __ ___  
  /\ \ \ \  Anshu Prasad                        stud1b53@bnr.ca
 /--\ \/_/  Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
/_/  \_\    All opinions are my own, not my employer's, BNR Ltd

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
Subject: Re: LD thru the VCR
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 17 Nov 1992 09:32 EST  

In article <1e97ktINNmh8@west.West.Sun.COM>, dgoodwin@hoops.West.Sun.COM writes...
>In order to tape an LD, I have run the video from the LD player to the
>VCR then to the TV.   This is MitsuU54 non-SVHS VCR.  Should the resolution 
>be the same when the video signal gets to my TV??  In otherwords, 
>when I copy one of my own disks to tape, am I watching a degraded picture?
> 
> 
Yes, you definately lose about 60% resolution when you copy to standard VHS.
LD has a horizontal res. of 380lines (and up), while VHS is limited to 
about 240 lines on a good day.  Also, the tape is inherently noiser.

You probably will lose resolution by just watching the LD through the VCR, 
because most video amplifiers have a bandwidth of only 4.2 MHz--roughly 
330lines.

Greg
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                         ED-Beta: Simply THE BEST!
"ED Beta is simply the best consumer videotape format available."
                                     --VIDEO Magazime, Nov. 1992, page 30.
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From: mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Sony KPR53XBR15:  Yowza!!!!  (PS to Frank Longo)
Date: 23 Nov 92 01:58:57 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory

Greetings!

  Awhile back, when I was looking for information on rear
projectors, Frank Longo sent me mail to let me know that Sony was
coming out with some new ultra-slim rear-projectors towards the end
of this month.

  Well, I saw the 53" version today, and I'm sold!  It has excellent
picture quality, great color (although probably not 6500K), and all
the features of the XBR^2.  Plus, it's less than 25" deep (for a 53"
screen!!!).  Overall, I was very, very impressed.  For my personal
preference, I liked the picture much better than that of the 60"
Mitsubishi.  

  I especially liked the way the Sony has multiple stored
configurations ("Normal", "Movie", "Music", "News", "Sports") which
alter both the parameters to the picture and to the SRS audio
section.  "Movie" mode gives a more film-like picture (dimmer,
pixels and scanning lines less obvious, etc), and makes a nice wide
soundstage.  "News" mode puts most of the audio in the center, and
puts brightness on normal.  Etc.

  Add to this the fact that it's cosmetically very atractive, and I
think Sony's got a winner.  Price?  Dealer wanted $3700.

Check it out!
--Mike

PS:  Thanks for the tip, Frank!  I still can't email you.  MIT's
machines don't seem to know about your host 'bank.citib.com'.  Most
of the questions I wanted to ask you were answered by looking at the
set anyway.
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.arts.tv,rec.video.production
From: kimnach@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Date: 16 Nov 1992 10:03 EST  

In article <F6HauB2w165w@amigans.gen.nz>, zoltar@amigans.gen.nz (Grant Thoms) writes...
>brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
> 
>> <>>>best was from the crook: 
>> <>>>			Oh No!  Beta!
>> <> 
>> <>>Not even remotely funny!  Well, maybe slightly.
>> <> 
>> <>Aw - c'mon Greg.    I thought it was funny - and you and I are both
>> <>hardcore Beta-Philes and ED Beta fans.
>> <> 
>> <>Just look at how hard it would be to sell a 'hot' Beta machine.  
>> <> 
>> <>And we can rest easier knowing our machines are not a prime target :-)
>> < ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> <That's part of the reason that I found it to be funny.  I've often 
>> <considered placing a warning on my home indicating--not that there is a 
>> <burglar alarm--but, rather that "this home has Betamax only".
>> <
>> <The other reason I'd rather not mention, because Vidiot seems is very 
>> <knowledgable about video and he would, no doubt, take offense.
>> 
>> Why would I take offense?  I like a good VHS joke like anyone else.  Jokes
>> I like, inaccuracies I don't.
>> 
>> Lay on the joke, we all want to read it.
>> -- 
> 
>I thought that betaCam was one of the highest formats available and is 
>used for television! Am I wrong?? Have I been mislead? Am I part of a 
>consumer trap fooling us citizens into thinking that betacam is the 
>highest Television grade of recording system available?

Grant,
  Yes Betacam (specifically Betacam SP) is probably the best professional, 
non-digital family of VTRs and "camcorders."  However, these are not the 
same as the consumer Betamax.  The only thing the two have in common is the 
tape and tape shell (for the short recording times of 30-minutes or less)--
longer recording times require the Large cassete case.

And if you have doubts about Betamax: Don't.  It is the best consumer 
format (in all of its subformats).  Beta is better than VHS, SuperBeta is 
better than VHS-HQ, and ED Beta is much better than S-VHS.  Period.

Greg
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                         ED-Beta: Simply THE BEST!
"ED Beta is simply the best consumer videotape format available."
                                     --VIDEO Magazime, Nov. 1992, page 30.
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From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD-101: A Pornographic Standard
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 00:35:55 EET
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

So, how does the saga of the Pornographic Video Standard unfold?
Inquiring minds want to know...

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From: dewey@centerline.com (Devan F. dewey)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LDs with no chapter stops
Followup-To: rec.video
Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:35:12 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.212

In article <lmv1g5m@rpi.edu>, kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim) wrote:
> 
> Could someone E-mail me a list of laserdiscs without chapter stops (if
> there aren't too many)?  LDs without chapter stops, as Garth said,
> sucks (by the way, Wayne's World does not have chapter stops)!

About 4 of the last 12 laserdiscs I've rented/purchased have not had
chapter stops. Don't expect a list to be posted. There are two many.

An interesting note about this however. I did rent a disk (I wish I could
remember which one) that had stops on the disk but none printed on the
jacket. Possible that is was in a jacket from a different edition, but
doubtful.

-Devan

                             
               Devan F. Dewey | Senior Systems Analyst
          CenterLine Software | dewey@centerline.com
            10 Fawcett Street | "Leme esplain - no dere is
          Cambridge, MA 02138 | too much. Leme sum up."
                                       -Inigo Montoya
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: syd@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis P Hilgenberg)
Subject: VCR recommendations, ~$500
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 92 15:32:16 GMT

I hate to do this, as I'm sure it's been done many times before.
(So PLEASE E-MAIL your responses, and I'll post a summary if 
there is interest!)

My eleven-year-old RCA SelectaVision recently died an apparently
permanent death (unlike its previous deaths).  This is both good
and bad.  Bad because it had a _great_ picture compared with
most modest-priced VCR's which I've seen in recent history.
(Then again, it wasn't "modest-priced" itself back in 1981.)
Good because now I have an excuse to buy a hi-fi stereo model
which weighs less than forty pounds and which doesn't make horrible
solenoid noises whenever I press a button.

So, please send me your recommendations (and by this I mean something
more than "buy brand X, it's great!" -- tell me what you like about
your model, how's the picture and sound, any problems with it,
would you buy it again, what don't you like about it, etc.) for hi-fi 
stereo VCR's with a top price of $500.  Remote would be nice.  
Do I want S-VHS?  (I'm kind of doubting it, myself -- my main
application would be watching prerecorded films, _not_ recording
from the airwaves.) I _definitely_ want input audio record level 
controls, because I would like to be able to use it for audio
recordings as well.  I know this is going to narrow down my choices 
considerably in this price range (anybody know why this has to be 
true?)

Within the price range indicated, performance (i.e. picture
and sound quality, proper behavior of special effects, etc.)
is most important, followed very closely by reliability
(I doubt that I can trust Sony in this price range, but this
might just be a personal bias), and then features.

Thank you very much,


-- 
Dennis Hilgenberg
syd@ecn.purdue.edu
LaRouche in '96
From: kimd@gizmo.usc.edu (Kim Daugherty)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: TR101 best price in So. CA
Date: 17 Nov 1992 13:03:55 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: ca
NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.usc.edu


Can anybody advise me on a place with the best price for the Sony TR101 in
the Los Angeles area.  So far, I had gotten a price of $1199 from Silo and 
a few other big electronics stores.
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+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
| Kim Daugherty                   | PhD program in Computer Science   |
| kimd@gizmo.usc.edu              | University of Southern California |
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Subject: jvc & sony which is bette
Reply-To: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:33:55 EST

JVc is great but don't forget panasonic is also right in ther. Sony
never . They have always been over price . They seem to think there to
good but there wrong . Remeber these are the same guy's who told you
beta was good,beta was not going to die . Also rember they told you they
would never make vhs vcr's ever the last two year''s they still told the
people beta was doing fine when in reallity beta was dying a slow death.
Now they wan't to try it again with 8mmIf sony didn't have there heads
shoved so far up there *** they would be great . Oh well to bad !
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: gmc@linear (Jerry Cotreau)
Subject: Is Sony really Goldstar? 
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:22:03 GMT
Reply-To: gmc@mlb.semi.harris.com
Organization: Analog


     I bought a Sony VCR SLV585 because of Sony's excellent
reputation with local servicemen. I've had it exactly one
year and have been very satisfied. It's had a year of hard
use and performs flawlessly. Last week I was looking at VCR's
out of curiosity, and saw a GOLDSTAR hifi stereo with jog-shuttle
which was featured as one of the store's best VCR's for sale.
I didn't get the model number, but it was loaded with features and I
commented to a salesman that it seemed to resemble my Sony, but
with more and at a smaller price. He said that's because it IS
a Sony. He says Sony has no license to make VHS machines and
has to have someone else make their VHS machines for them, and
for at least 2 years Goldstar has made Sony VHS.
     I had always considered Goldstar to be junk, and said so.
The salesman then told a story about another customer who wouldn't
buy Goldstar, but would buy Sony, which they didn't sell.
The salesman and customer got into a heated argument, and the customer
left, bought a Sony, and made a point of bringing his new
Sony into the store and taking the cover off to prove it
wasn't Goldstar, and then got doubly pissed when it turned out the
store was right and the Sony was, in fact, a Goldstar.
Looking inside the tape door, it is almost identical to my Sony,
and the transport operates identically. The salesman also pointed
out that the Goldstar has more motors, fewer belts, less plastic,
more heft, etc. than most other machines, and in his opinion the
Goldstar is built like a battleship relative to most high-end jap brands,
and at a fraction of the cost.
     This has caused me to pause and reset. Is my Sony really not made by Sony?
Does Goldstar make Sony? Is Goldstar really that good? Is one wasting
money by bypassing Goldstar to get a jap brand? Would someone who knows
please advise?

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From: dak@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Dorothy Klein)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: FAQ on OTA interference?
Keywords: 3, interference, FCC, snow
Date: 15 Nov 92 23:48:44 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


	Is there a FAQ for this group?  I've got horrible snow of a 
regular-pattern on channel 3 no matter how I orient my rabbit-ears.  
I live in a condo and there's lots of turnover in residents, but it
seens to have started when new people moved in above me.  How do I
go about hunting down the source of the interference, and how do I
convince the neighbors to toss their electronic gizmo so I can get 
decent reception?
	Thanks for your time,
	Dotty Klein
From: bryan@tekgen.bv.tek.com (Bryan Olson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: various TR101 observations and questions - followup on Hi 8
Keywords: TR101 camcorder
Date: 18 Nov 92 02:03:39 GMT
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.

>5.  Dropouts.  With a relatively small sample of TDK ME-120 tape,
>    tape, I've seen more dropouts than I'd expected (mostly the part-of-
>    one-scan-line-flashing-in-one-field variety).  They range from one
>    every 30 seconds or so to several in that time.  They seem more
>    prevalent near the start of a tape.  I also notice an occasional
>    glitch that looks like a ripple or bump that sort of rolls up the
>    screen, which I assume is some problem that crosses more than one
>    helical track on the tape.  
>
>    Questions:  Any idea what this last effect could be?  Is it
>    characteristic of all 8mm or Hi8 (or other) camcorders?  Also, does
>    anyone have a surefire source of dropout-free Hi8 tape?  Is there
>    any practical difference between MP and ME tape in terms of wear
>    and tear on the machine, suitability for later editing, etc.?  Is

I recently rented a TR81, which was supposed to be only a few weeks since
it was purchased. Using a TDK ME tape I also noticed a lot of dropouts
and lots of flashes where the pixels were progressively shifted to the 
right over about 3 to 5% of the screen, if there was a straight line on
the screen it would look like this:     |
					|
					 )
					|
					|
There seemed to be a lot more of them at the beginning of the tape than
10 minutes or so into the tape. It was very annoying. I was thinking this
can't really be the way it is or nobody would use the format. So, please,
tell me it was the tape. I also recorded on regular 8mm and the resolution
was much better in Hi 8 - and my television was a $300 tv 5 to 6 years
ago. I'm planning on buying something in Hi-8 soon, though I'm kind of
wondering if S-VHS-C might be a better bet. 

Bryan

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kh@sei.cmu.edu (Kurt Haverstock)
Subject: Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations?
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:50:27 GMT

In article Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations? of 21 Nov 92 05:09:21 GMT brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:



>Wrong.  The AGC screwup is during copying from one VCR to another.  If you
>are playing the tape directly to the TV (not going through another VCR), then
>it is the TV that is having problems with the Macrovision.
>
>There are many TVs that have problems with Macrovision.  The Macrovision
>company claims not.  My letter to a trade publication should proabably appear
>next month (since it wasn't in the recent issue).  Macrovision is supposidly
>going to respond to my complaints about the signal.  I will post them when
>I get it.


My gaff. You're absolutely right. Gain circuitry processes incoming video,
not output. 

My television is also less-than-fond of the stuff and watching Macro'd
movies is extremely annoying.  Good luck in the wars.


Kurt
From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Head Cleaners?
Date: 17 Nov 1992 06:47:05 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: km@mathcs.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: km-sl.cc.emory.edu

Does anyone have a strong opinion on VCR head cleaners? I've seen a 
Memorex wet system and a Scotch dry system in the stores.

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Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet              NON-DOMAIN BITNET  
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: schwartz@valley.ops.lmsc.lockheed.com (Ted Schwartz)
Subject: Columbia House LD - Star Wars LBX
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Lockheed
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 16:25:28 GMT

Would someone please email/post what you do to order the LBX Star Wars trilogy
as the sign-up bonus from Columbia House (what address to send it to, etc). 
The only forms I've seen don't list them as available as the initial selections.

Thanks.

Ted Schwartz

schwartz@valley.ops.lmsc.lockheed.com

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: maxson@cerl.uiuc.edu (K R Maxson)
Subject: Two Unrelated Questions
Summary: television display tuning & clamshells
Organization: UIUC Computer-based Education Research Lab
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:44:03 GMT

1) Does anyone know of a good place to mail order clamshells
   (plastic tape boxes) from?  I'm looking for standard VHS
   clamshells.

2) I suspect that my television needs first aid in terms of
   its color brightness, convergence, etc. etc.  Now, I don't
   have a laser disc player so I can't use A Video Standard.
   Without having access to a lot of sophisticated equipment,
   what can I do to fix up my television to deliver a better
   picture?  I figure I'll have to get a copy of the shop 
   manual and open the case, but I still wouldn't have a good
   idea of how to calibrate the sucker.
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