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From: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: st:tng blue corners?
Date: 17 Aug 92 01:20:37 EST
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:

BN>In rec.video, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

> Basically, it is like someone put a blue-green filter over a splotch in
> the upper left, a red splotch in the center, etc.  It seems like a strange
> kind of problem -- not one I'd associate with normal pressing.

BN>How does that disc look on another player (or even another TV).

BN>Color splotches on direct-view TVs are usually the result of having speakers
BN>(with their large magnets) too close to the CRT.

Not really related but, has anyone else noticed that the end credits
for Star Trek: The Next Generation has a blue tint near the top and
bottom left corners, but not in the other two ??  I thought this was
my TV, but then I saw the same thing on another TV...  you might have
to look carefully because the background is a starscape so its mostly
black, but even with my well-adjusted TV, I see it.   ANYONE?
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From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: Image Sampling and Video Enhancement 
Keywords: video enhancement interpolation scan doubling
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 04:35:29 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.121823.27891@bcrka451.bnr.ca> sandness@bnr.ca (Glen Sandness) writes:
>
>Several CCD image sensors I have read about generate the interleaved
>NTSC signal by simply dumping the same 200+ scan lines for each field
>of a complete frame.  This means that the second field of the frame
>is actually offset in time from the first field.  Is this how all
>video cameras operate?

Most pro video I've seen seems to shoot 60 distinct fields per second,
where if you do a frame still you may get motion artifacts due to the
fields being taken from different points in time.

I don't know about consumer cameras.

>I know that motion picture film is converted to video by periodically
>re-using frames to reconcile the 24-frame/sec motion picture rate with
>the 30-frame/sec video rate.  Does that mean that in this case the
>second field of the frame is NOT offset in time from the first field
>(i.e. both fields have been recorded from the same static movie frame)?

The method normally used is "3-2 pulldown" in which half of the film
frames use 2 fields and the other half use 3 fields, in an alternating
fashion:

video frame  |1    |2    |3    |4    |5    |
video fields |  :  |  :  |  :  |  :  |  :  |
film frame   |1 :1 |1 :2 |2 :3 |3 :3 |4 :4 |

So 2 out of 5 video frames have fields taken from different film
frames.

                                              -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell)
Subject: Fox all-in-one LCD remote experiences?
Summary: Want one!
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:14:30 GMT

    I saw in the current issue of Videomaker that there's a company in New
York that has the new Fox remote on sale.  This is an all-in-one type unit
that has an LCD face that can be backlit, and can be programmed to replace
up to eight different remotes.

    I read a blurb on it in Popular Mechanics, and it said that it was nice,
but that it only had enough memory for 36 functions to be programmed with
the learn mode.  It is also pre-programmed for a lot of popular remotes,
though.

    So my question is, does anyone have one yet, and if so, do you like it?
I'd like to get one to replace remotes for an RCA stereo TV and stereo VCR,
Pioneer CLD-M90 LD player, Digital Cable Radio box, and a Fisher stereo
system with dual tape decks and CD.  I notice the remote has an LD button,
so I assume the Pioneer LD remote is programmed in.

    Thanks in advance for any info!  I'll summarize.

--
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: lawson@netsun (Jim Lawson)
Subject: Re: st:tng blue corners?
Organization: MDSSC-SSD
Reply-To: Lawson%ssdvax.decnet@lbgwy.mdc.com
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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:05:41 GMT
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I too have noticed it but had also chalked it up to my T.V. 

Glad to see that others have noticed it too !!

Do the videotapes/Laserdiscs do it ?

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Opinions/Comments expressed here are my own and no one elses !!
From: sean@cs.tamu.edu (Sean Graves)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Off-screen programming
Date: 19 Aug 92 19:19:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: tamsun.1992Aug19.191955.8358
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University

In article <9208180709.aa24452@FSAC3.PICA.ARMY.MIL> trwei@PICA.ARMY.MIL ("Tony K. Wei", FSAC-SID) over-generalizes:
[stuff deleted]
>Since the VCR has it's own turner, a TV is not 
>required.  It is only required to view what you have recorded. The display 
>on your VCR should provide enough information to guide you through your 
>programming.  Hope this helps.
>
>Tony

No, not really.  The time when _every_ VCR had that little flashing clock and
assorted other displays on the front is long gone.  For example, my parent's
new RCA has no displays at all.  Well, an LED to tell you there is a tape in.
Everything else is done on-screen.  Sure, if you know the menu sequence, you
can program it without the tv, but I wouldn't feel very confident about it
until I checked by turning on the tv.

Sean
sean@cs.tamu.edu
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Paramount and changing music
Date: 15 Aug 92 17:18:05 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

> 	On the back of the Naked Gun 2 1/2 videotape and Wayne's
> World laserdisc is a message saying that they changed several
> songs from the movie. Does anyone know what they changed and why?

This is usually a result of the studio's legal department screwing up and not 
obtaining the rights to the music for tape and disk as well as for film.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: cmv@looney.att.com (Craig M. Votava)
Subject: Re: 2001 LBX - MGM/UA ML102233 - transfer glitch?
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:47:48 GMT

In article <1992Aug12.195648.28027@ils.nwu.edu>, aieta@ils.nwu.edu (Michael Aieta) writes:
|> 
|> Before I try and replace the copy I just received of MGM/UA's LBX
|> release of 2001:a space odyssey,  I was wondering if anyone else noticed
|> a glitch in the scene about half way through the first side, 2 seconds
|> or so after the bone toss which switches to the 'skylab' floating down 
|> towards the bottom of the screen.  The 'skylab' floats smoothly for a 
|> second, but then it jerks back up a few lines before floating back down
|> smoothly again.

Yes, I just bought this about a week ago, and after seeing your request, I
ran home yesterday and checked my copy out. It has the same problem that
you describe. In chapter 7 at 20:25 to 20:26, as the skylab floats down,
just at the point where the earth enters in the lower right corner of the
screen, the skylab hesitates for what appears to be a extra frame.

I'd love to make up some interesting story about how the director had to
allow the special effects folks to do this because of the chroma effect of
bringing a high intensity matte into an otherwize dark scene... or some such
nonsense, but I won't. To be honest, I don't know why the heck it does that.

-Craig


	()_()	Craig Votava
	 (_)	AT&T Bell Labs
		cmv@looney.att.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: M02449@mwvm.mitre.org (Joe Gems)
Subject: Re: VHS tape speeds
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 15:08:43 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.095418.15894@rdg.dec.com>
bussink@trucks.enet.dec.com (Erik Bussink) writes:
 
>
>
>Could somebody give some more light on the VHS tape speeds in the USA ?
>
>Here in the UK, we use to sleep,
>                                                        180 tape
>                                                        --------
>        Normal speed (shortplay)        SP              180 minutes
>        Long play                       LP              360 minutes
>
>You use normal play and EP in the states, what is exactly EP ?
>
>                                                        Erik
In your example, EP would be 540 minutes. In terms of available time,
SP, LP, and EP are in the ratio of 1:2:3.
         Joe
 
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: g-martin1@uiuc.edu (Gregory A. Martin)
Subject: Quality of Laser Disc players?
Originator: gamg6900@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Reply-To: g-martin1@uiuc.edu (Gregory A. Martin)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 06:23:22 GMT

I would like to ask anyone who has investigated Laser Disc players what
distinguishes the expensive models from the cheap models? Are LD players
similar to CD players where even cheap models give high quality output,
and expensive models yield only modest improvements in output quality?

I'm in the situation where I wouldn't mind paying $300 for a LD player
but I don't want to pay $600. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

					Greg Martin
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Star Wars LBX from Columbia House
Date: 19 Aug 92 11:04:12 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:

>used and is of 1981 vintage (major laser rot). One was my first copy of

what is laser rot?


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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Subject: Re: Getting the Best Deal from Columbia LD
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 20:43:48 GMT

bunner@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Dana A. Bunner) writes:

>Once I purchase two $29.95 movies and complete my obligation, I will have
>spent around $72 and will own $270 of products.  Not a bad deal at all.

Is $29.95 the "average" price of LDs from the club?

How much are the "current" LDs?

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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: serge@dgbt.doc.ca (Serge Ah Hee)
Subject: LD/Kareoke (sp?)
Organization: The Communications Research Centre
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:14:02 GMT

Good day!

	My mother is interested in getting a Kareoke machine (Man, I hope
she doesn't start singing). Anyways, what brands and model are out there?
If possible, I would like to have the price in CDN $$.

Thanks in advance

Serge
From: mandreol@ncrcan.Canada.NCR.CA (mandreol)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: 60 KHz Hum
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:24:19 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: NCR Canada Ltd. Mississauga, Ontario

In article <1992Aug17.130415.24915@cs.wisc.edu> guest@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (Guest account) writes:
>In <12763@ncrcan.Canada.NCR.CA> mandreol@ncrcan.Canada.NCR.CA (mandreol) writes:
>Don't you mean 60 Hz?
>If it were 60 KHz your dog might object... :-) but not you.
>
>tim petlock
>guest@veronica.cs.wisc.edu

Ahhh, now I know why my dog hates TV. (except for Married With Children ???)





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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: CPLS13@email.mot.com (Steven_Cohn)
Subject: Cannon repair parts
Organization: Motorola_CoveragePLUS
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 12:39:58 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video

I have a Cannon E440 camcorder, for which I have misplaced the service
documentation.  I need to know where to get parts.  Specifically, all I
need is the read plastic lens that covers the autofocus stuff.  I am in
the Chicago area if there is anything local, or I could get from elsewhere.
Even a phone number for Cannon would be useful.
Thanks

Steven Cohn
Motorola CoveragePLUS Engineering
CPLS13@EMAIL.MOT.COM
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org (George Cifrancis)
Subject: Re: Opinions on 2 Pioneer Players
Organization: Homebrew Virtual Reality Labs
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:14:12 GMT

Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
: will play a single laser or CD and has a Super-VHS output (I don't know if th

You mean S-video output.  There is no such thing as SuperVHS output.

George Cifrancis
gc3@jcnpc.cmhnet.org
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: freedmanm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: VCR causing TV interference?
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:17:28 GMT

In article <1681@grivel.une.edu.au>, plaplagn@metz.une.edu.au (Patrick Laplagne) writes:
> Hi. Has anyone got any experience of a VCR causing sound and image
> interference on a colour TV, when the two are connected by a coaxial
> cable? Well...it happens with mine d:^(
> When the VCR is switched on and I am watching one of our VHF channels
> I get a droning noise in the speakers and snow on the screen. Most
> annoying!! Curiously (for me!), that doesn't happen with UHF stations.
> I've tried every possible setting on the TV without success. The VCR
> is a self-setting one which means no obvious way of tinkering with its
> settings.. 
> I'd appreciate it if anyone could offer any pointers on how to remedy 
> that problem; I've tried installing a commercial filter between VCR
> and TV but to no avail.. Is it maybe a grounding problem? 
> As you can probably guess, I'm no electronics expert d:^)
> Thanks in advance.
> Pat




Sounds like you are connecting both your vcr and your cable into the tv with a
splitter..... Is this so... Mail me.
	
			freedmanm@woods.ulowell.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bennett@adobe.com(Bennett Leeds)
Subject: Re: Off-screen programming
Reply-To: bennett@adobe.com
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:56:11 GMT

Khan writes
> 
> In article <1992Aug17.184016.11030@SSD.intel.com> davidl@ssd.intel.com (David  
Levine) writes:
> >Are there any modern VCRs available that allow "off-screen programming"
> >-- that is, programming the VCR without requiring a TV?
> 
> The Sony SLV-R5 has the best programming method I've ever seen on a VCR:
> you set the timer ON THE REMOTE, and press the transmit button to
> program the VCR. It even has a 4 slot mmory to remember your frequently
> used settings (like TNG ;-).

Some JVC decks, like the 58000U, also have this feature (actually you have the  
choice of either doing it on screen or on the remote). Another side benefit for  
those who get frequent or long power outages is that the remote also has a  
clock in it, so resetting the time on the deck is as simple as pressing the   
Clock Adj. and Trans. buttons.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: davidv@sco.COM (David Vangerov)
Subject: Mitsubishi HS430UR HiFi VCR questions/repairs
Organization: Apathetic Surf Club (we don't surf and we don't care)
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:32:06 GMT

i have some questions about this VCR. like when it was first released,
how much it went for, and what sort of editing options you can do on it.
and is it worth it to blow around $275 to get it fixed?

the reason i ask is because i found one of these lying around my parents'
garage and when i remarked that i could use another VCR (i have a Mitsubishi
HS-U51 already), they said i was welcome to it, only that it has problems.

those problems being a band of video noise in the lower part of the screen
(tracking doesn't help it), lotsa of breakup in the HiFi tracks, and only 
one channel of sound from the linear stereo tracks. if you make tapes on it,
it comes out looking ok, but you can't play the tape on another machine
without similar problems to the video-noise band problem above. i'm told 
that part of this is because the tape path has slipped down, and that the
HiFi chip has shorted out. it also needs a good cleaning.

i'd like to fix the VCR because it has a few features that my U51 doesn't
have: linear stereo, adjustable levels for recording HiFi tracks, can record
in the (now defunct) LP speed. it would make a good dubbing deck (either for
source or destination). i know the newer Mitsubishis have some sort of Edit
control port on them (the U51 does), but i have the feeling that this one
doesn't have that. it'd be nice if it could, but oh well...


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From: idelson@bms.com (Ira Idelson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Camera World of Oregon
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:08:13 GMT
Reply-To: idelson@bms.com
Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI

Would somebody please send me the phone # for camera world of Oregon. 

I'm new to the group and don't know where the FAQ is located, so if this is FAQ stuff I'm sorry to use net bandwidth for it.

Ira Idelson
From: goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Olympus 2-chip: any good?
Date: 17 Aug 92 11:27:22 GMT
Reply-To: goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg)
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Annapolis, MD

In rec.video, killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) writes:
>There are two multi-chip Hi8mm CamCorders I know of...
>        Minolta 8-918 (2-Chip) (The Olympus is a clone)
>        Canon EVW-300 (3-Chip)

The three-chip camera is a SONY, not Canon.

I saw these two cameras in a "shootout" at the Wedding Video Expo last
month.  Bottom line is that the Sony has excellent low light performance
far better than the Minolta 8-918.  In fact, the Sony has better low
light performance than many single chip cameras like the Panasonic AG-450
and those made by Hitachi and RCA.

The Sony EVW-300 uses HyperHAD chips.  An on-chip lens is employed to
enhance light gathering ability.

Frankly, I was very disappointed with the performance of the Minolta.
It had unacceptably high chroma noise, klutzy focussing, and no edit
control interface.  I don't recommend it.

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From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Off-screen programming
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:51:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

In article <Bt90LD.Eun@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) writes:
> 
> Say, Tony, how long has it been since you purchased a VCR?
> 
> A growing trend in VCR design seems to be to make all programming via
> menus which appear on your TV screen (hence the term on screen
> programming). The display on the new VCRs doesn't provide the information
> like older VCRs do; thus, with many units, there is NO WAY to program
> the VCR without also turning on the TV and displaying the VCR's output
> (so you can see the menus while setting the timer). Hope this helps.
> 

In defense of on screen programming....  I for the longest time was certain
that on screen programming was just a pain.  Recently I bought a used
SuperBeta VCR which does not have on screen programming.  I completely and
totally retract any bad mouthing of on screen programming I have ever
expressed!  One of the primary problems with off screen programming is not
being able to immediately see what you just programmed.  After entering a
program I find myself double and triple checking to make absolutely sure
it is right.  When I get lazy and don't do that I have on occasion screwed
up a program.  Having a complete list of all entered programs on screen
is a big plus and saves a lot of the "am I sure I entered it right?  Better
check" syndrome!  Of course it is possible that the on screen programming
could be poorly designed, but at least in the case of my parents Mitsubishi
HiFi VCR, it is vastly superior.  You might want to consider this....

Steve
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: Star Wars LBX from Columbia House
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 16:13:39 GMT


In article <rwittick-180892073706@wittick.cl.msu.edu> rwittick@ibm.cl.msu.edu (Bob Wittick) writes:
>In article <34415@cbmvax.commodore.com>, raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob
>Raible - LSI Design) wrote:
>> No need for a flame war but perhaps we could hold a survey on percentage of
>> discs returned to CHLDC.
>
>Ijust did a quick count from my inventory list, and since joining CHLDC
>last December, I have bought 18 discs from them.  None of them had to be
>returned.  I did have to return a Criterion disc to Tewksbury, and I had
>to return another disc to a local store.

I've come across 3 defective LDs in the last year. One was purchased
used and is of 1981 vintage (major laser rot). One was my first copy of
CAV Fantasia, purchased (and exchanged) at a local store. The third was
a CAV Criterion From Russia With Love, which had a hunk of dirt embedded
in the acrylic (!), returned to the Blockbuster Video from which it was
purchased. Of the 6 or 7 LDs purchased from CHLDC, including the Star
Wars trilogy, several suffer from scrolling lines, but none has been bad
enough to warrant the hassle of returning them to CH.

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jeberger@novell.com (John Berger)
Subject: Looking for hi-fi VCR suggestions
Summary: Looking for hi-fi VCR suggesions
Keywords: vcr hi-fi 
Organization: Novell, Inc.
Distribution: us
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:26:11 GMT

Well, after the repairman said that he could fix my S-VHS Magnavox for "at 
least $250" (after another shop had given up entirely), I guess that I'll 
have to buy a new one.  

I'm not totally sold on the idea of another S-VHS, since I've found that I 
do little taping, so I'm looking for a good _reliable_ hi-fi unit.

Criteria:
* capable of audio-only recording with level adjustments
* real-time tape counter
* reliable (the Magnavox was in the shop 3x in as many years)
* fixed and variable line-level outputs for audio (my monitor doesn't have 
a remote control for volume, and I'll be using this for the tuner as well)
* VCR+ (optional)

Any experiences out there to share?  Any features that I'm missing that you 
feel are "must haves"?  I'll be happy to post a summary of emails on this 
subject.


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