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From: brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao)
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers
Subject: Can an non-MTS (cheapo) TV work with an HIFI, MTS VCR?
Keywords: Compatibility
Date: 22 Jul 92 14:40:11 GMT
Organization: AT&T(IMS-DPO), Aurora, Colorado


Sorry if this is frequently asked.

I have a Toshiba TV which is not setereo. I also have
a Denon receiever. I plan to buy a HI-FI, MTS VCR.
Is such a VCR compatible with an ordinary TV?

If you have any info (good or bad) on JVC HR-D970
or Mitsubishi HS-U54, please send me a note.
Thanks in advance.
-bindu rama rao
(708)-293-0633
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ying@vehicle.Berkeley.EDU (Ying)
Subject: Information of projection TVs needed
Reply-To: ying@vehicle.Berkeley.EDU (Ying)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 00:27:40 GMT



I am planning to buy a (46 inches or larger) TV and
want to know which brand is better.  
Which of the following brand is better: Sony, Pioneer,
Mitsibutsi(probably spell it wrong, hope you know what I mean :) )
Thanks
From: sidney@idacrd.UUCP (Raymond M. Sidney)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Wondering about the new Panasonic "SuperFlat" TVs
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:16:09 GMT
Reply-To: sidney@idacrd.UUCP (Raymond M. Sidney)
Distribution: rec.video
Organization: IDA Center for Communications Research


	So what do people think of the new, extremely flat-screened Panasonic
27-inch TVs?  A salesman claimed they have a much blacker picture tube than
other televisions, and can thus display far better contrast.  The one they
had set up did in fact have a pretty nice picture.
	The store I was looking in had it on sale (or maybe it was regular
price? I forget...) for $699.  Is that a good price?  Where can one get it
for less?

								-- Ray Sidney
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Compression artifacts in NBC Olympic coverage
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:10:59 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <12527.2A759303@psycho.fidonet.org> jra@psycho.fidonet.org (Jay Ashworth) writes:
<
<The Olympic coverage is being mastered in PAL, and standards converted, by (I think) Snell & Wilcox equipment.  I'm sure they'll be heartbroken to know artifacts are getting out, since they spent about $20k+ per feed to avoid it....
<
<The slow-mo is very likely being done on a Sony Super-Slo-Mo, which is a modified 1" type C deck that records at 180 fields/second.

First off, please use your return key before you reach the 80th character
position.  While the text may auto-wrap on your monitor, it is posted as a
single long line.  It will help readers of this group if you used the return
key.  Thank you for your cooperation.

Now, as I have previously posted, the standards converters are Thomson and
Vistek units, with the Vistek being the Vector V4401 and V4501 units.  I don't
know the model of the Thomson units.  There are four of each.

The super slo-mo cameras and decks are Panasonic and Sony.  The Panasonic uses
a modified MII VTR and the Sony a modified Betacam SP VTR.
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From: fayne@tellabs.com (Jeffrey Fayne)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: SONY TR7 Camcorder opinions sought
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:16:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: tellab5.1992Jul27.131614.7963
Organization: Tellabs, Inc., Lisle, IL

I am borrowing a Sony CCD-TR7 8mm camcorder from a friend and may
have the opportunity to purchase it from him. I am curious as to the
general opinion of this unit and what I should offer him if the
possibility arises. I don't know much about 8mm camcorders,
but it appears to be of 1990 vintage and chock-full-of-features.


Anybody have an idea of it's worth, either presently or when it
was new?


	Thanks in advance,
			Jeff


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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: pbg@cs.brown.edu (Peter Galvin)
Subject: Abe's of Maine any good?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Distribution: rec
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:03:54 GMT

Another one of those "anything to worry about?" questions:  Abe's of
Maine has the best price on the VCR I'm looking to buy (Sony
SLV-696HF), but since it's at least $40 better than other mail order
places I'm worried that they are disreputable or gray market.  (They
claim US warrantee and of course, "in stock"). Any experiences with
them, good or bad?  

Mail to me and I'll summarize.  

Thanks.
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Xref: sparky rec.video:9661 rec.audio:10914
From: drazil@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Devin Ben-Hur)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.audio
Subject: Re: How to mount surround speakers?
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:03:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Jul28.020327.9891
Organization: Are you kidding?

In article <1992Jul16.234328.7113@news.media.mit.edu> wave@media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
>Ok, given that one goes out and purchases speaker like the M7s to use
>as surround speakers: wWhat's the right way to mount these if your 
>sitting area (a couch) is basically against the wall?  Do I mount them
>on the wall on either side of the couch, above the viewers?  If so, which
>way do they point - at the viewer, angled down, angled towards the television...

Try mounting them on the ceiling angled to reflect off the wall behind the
sofa.  Remember that Surround speakers are supposed to produce ambient
sound so what's important is not so much that the sound comes from behind the
listener as that the source of the sound can't be pin-pointed.  Reflecting
the surround speakers does a nice job of this.  THX specifies dipole
radiators to accomplish just this effect.
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From: Brian.E.Hannon@dartmouth.edu (Brian E. Hannon)
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Can an non-MTS (cheapo) TV work with an HIFI, MTS VCR?
Date: 23 Jul 92 23:57:15 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

In article <2642@abcom.ATT.COM>
brr@abcom.ATT.COM (Rao) writes:

> If you have any info (good or bad) on JVC HR-D970
> or Mitsubishi HS-U54, please send me a note.

I have the Mitsubishi and am very pleased.  The video quality is the
best that I have ever seen in a VCR and the sound is good as well,
although the hi-fi tracks are frequently damaged on rental tapes...  I
got a really good deal on mine so it wasn't very expensive, but average
price for this machine is a little high.

Bri
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: hughes@gary.enet.dec.com (Gary Hughes - VMS Development)
Subject: Re: SVHS from Satellite
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 16:54:58 GMT


In article <1992Jul21.064034.10418@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, an660@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sandy Maurer) writes...
>The consenus I believe that SVHS from satellite is just composite
>video so stnrd SVHS connect would yield no gain....unlike an LD
>player. What am I missing here?
> 
The Y/C connector offers the theoretical advantage of keeping the luma (Y) and
chroma components (C) on separate wires. Normal baseband has these combined,
and once they have been combined it is not possible to separate them perfectly
under all circumstances. There are some Y/C separators that come very close,
but they tend to be very expensive.

Consumer VCRs separate Y and C and record them separately. If you start with a
signal that has never had Y and C combined (e.g. a camcorder recording) there
is a big win in keeping them separate.

Satellite video, and laserdisc video, are composite formats with Y and C
already combined so there is no theoretical advantage in separating them in the
receiver (player) over separating them in the monitor. In that case, whichever
unit has the best Y/C separator is the one to use.

[As an aside, some LD players claim to have a Y/C separator that is
synchronized to disc motion. It is possible that there is some advantage to
that. Also, some high end players may use a component field store which
requires the signals be separated in the player; in that case using the Y/C
output avoids an extra recombination and subsequent separation.]

If you have a satellite receiver (or disc player) with both composite and Y/C
out you may still see a difference. The signals take different paths and the
design and/or quality of one path may be better than the other (inadvertantly
or not).

If you were to be watching a format other than NTSC or scrambled NTSC, there
may be some advantage in a Y/C connector. An example might something using
B-MAC, such as Primestar, which keeps Y and C separate in the transmitted
signal. The digital DBS formats due to hit the sky in a year or two will
probably benefit from a Y/C connection to your monitor.

>Would the purchase of the SVHS output IRD be for nought?
> 
IMO, I would not pay extra for that feature, or use it as a primary decision
point. If a receiver that I bought had it, I would certainly try it out and use
whichever source gave the best apparent performance.

gary
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: nieh@surya.cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Subject: Help -- regarding TV equipment
Reply-To: nieh@cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, San Jose CA.
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1992 02:25:04 GMT


I have a JVC 26" TV, I bought it two years ago. It broke in a strange way.
The symptom is that the antenna input shows no picture while the video input
works fine. So I can use it for VCR or nintendo. I have several of my
friends looked into it. And the strange thing happened, they took the cover
off then put it back on the TV worked for two days then went broken.
This happened several times. I am reluctant to take it to a repair shop since
I don't know how much will they chage me.

Is there a such device which can convert antenna signal to video signal
(ie, TV receiver with no screen). If I can get such a device then I can
always use the video input jack on the TV. I think it may cost me same amount 
to fix it then to buy such a device. Does anyone know such device exist ?

Please mail me your response directly. Our site only keeps netnews in a
very short period of time.


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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: enenkel@cs.toronto.edu (Robert Frederick Enenkel)
Subject: Parabolic UHF TV Antennas
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Distribution: na
Date: 23 Jul 92 17:41:57 GMT

Does anyone use one of those parabolic UHF TV antennas?  The ones I mean
have a series of curved reflector rods arranged to approximate a parabolic
dish about 5 ft. in diameter, and a folded dipole at the focus.  If so,
please let me know how well it works for you, and if you are pleased with
it.   --Robert Enenkel
From: jra@psycho.fidonet.org (Jay Ashworth)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: "Artifacts" in corners of cable TV pictures
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 19:57:54 EDT
Organization: Psycho: The Usenet<->Fidonet Gateway of St. Pete Florida

 DPBS> The thing is, while it's an aid to channel identification, it is
 DPBS> also quite annoying.  After a few minutes I want to go up to the
 DPBS> screen with a damp rag and wipe the thing off, or peel it off,
 DPBS> or something.

Horribly annoying.  I do electronic graphics, and I only thank god that the equipment I use isn't capable of it, so I don't have to tell a producer I _won't_... :-)

The reason it's there is that about a year ago, one or more new organizations got burned when some person at a competing organization stole story footage off someone _else'_ downlink.  A couple of childish idiots blew it for the rest of us, as usual.  If enough people write to the networks, they'll probably invent some other  way to do it...

Or at least, it's worth a try...

Cheers,
-- jra

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From: craigs@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Betsy Brett)
Subject: B/W movies have B/W through:  Why?
Summary: B/W movies: intro plus any previews are in B/W too.
Keywords: B/W videos
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 18:02:30 GMT


	I watched "Shadow of a Doubt," a black and white film on videotape
yesterday.  As usual, the video brand logo and other introducing items
were in black and white.  But at the end was a preview for other Hitchcock
films out on video.  The preview was in black and white, but having seen these
movies, I know they were filmed in colour.  Is there a particular reason
why everything is in black and white on a video if the movie is?  Is it the
way they record it or is it for the VCR's benefit in some way?  I am just
curious about this.
					  

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From: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Opinions on the Mitsubishi HS-U55
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:13:10 GMT
Organization: Astronomy Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu


I'm planning on purchasing this, after I had looked at a few VCRs with
similar features.  Anyone (owners or otherwise) have opinions on this?



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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: freedmanm@woods.ulowell.edu
Subject: Re: SVHS from Satellite
Organization: University of Lowell
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 01:12:23 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.064034.10418@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, an660@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Sandy Maurer) writes:
> 
> All this talk on rec.satellite on SVHS vs composite video is
> confusing to me. Its important to me in that Im still trying
> to figure out which IRD to buy...one with the SVHS or w/o.
> There is only one IRD with this feature however.
> 
> The consenus I believe that SVHS from satellite is just composite
> video so stnrd SVHS connect would yield no gain....unlike an LD
> player. What am I missing here?
> 
> Would the purchase of the SVHS output IRD be for nought?
> 
> 
> Sandy


Well SVHS is has many more scan lines.. Upwars of around 500 where as most
broadcasts are st 310... and VHS is 240.. The increase in resolution yields
more definition.. Much better picture....
From: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: rent stuff for flight
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:24:16 EST
Reply-To: "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com>
Distribution: rec
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

bender@oobleck (Duke of Canterbury) writes:

DO>On a related Screw-O-Vision topic, I was recently on an American Airlines
DO>757 from Chicago to San Francisco; this plane is one of the newer ones with
DO>all the goodies like in-flight phones (but not the ones that are in the seat
DO>backs :-() and video screens.  The video on that flight was Medician Man (a
DO>good flick to rent, BTW), and it had what had to be the worst case of
DO>macrovision poisioning that I've ever seen; so bad, in fact, that I had to
DO>occasionally take my eyes off of the screen since it was so bothersome.  I
DO>didn't say anything at the time, but thought about writing a letter to the
DO>airlines.

On a sub-related topic, I was watching a local show here in Toronto
(MovieTelevision) where they did this report on a small company that
came up with what I think is a GREAT idea for killing time on a plane...

You can rent the following items and return them at your destination:

Sony's Video-8 player (the one with the built-in colour LCD)
8mm feature movies

Gameboys/ with games
Sega's portable (whatever it's called) and games.

Right now their only operating in a few large city Airports, but they
are planning to expand.  They was no mention of the price, but it couldn't
be too bad...
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From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: rent stuff for flight
Date: 22 Jul 92 13:07:15 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <1992Jul22.051523.27255@news.eng.convex.com>, datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>>Sony's Video-8 player (the one with the built-in colour LCD)
>>8mm feature movies
> 
> Oh boy.  Pan & scan.

No more than any other video source.  I have copied some of my letter boxed
LD's and watched them on my GV-8 in flight.
From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: HDTV Questions (second, broadcasters)
Date: 26 Jul 92 21:09:45 GMT
Organization: Harris Allied Broadcast Div., Quincy, IL

In article <92Jul22.120327edt.48033@neat.cs.toronto.edu> tlai@cs.toronto.edu (Tony Wen Hsun Lai) writes:

>[stuff deleted]
>>Video Magazine has a picture of the shoebox-sized DigiCipher HDTV 8mm 
>>VCR along with a technical overview of the five systems in a recent issue.  
>>Probably using 8mm metal tapes.  S-VHS gets you NTSC at 4Mhz using oxide-
>>formula videotape.  Surely 6Mhz can be attained.
>>(VHS NTSC compatibility?  Please?  Just wondering...)
>
>Do you realize how disgusting VHS will look on an HDTV monitor?

Yes, I do.  Logically, it would show more artifacts than a normal monitor.
And probably reveal every speck of analog noise from my local cable system.

Between Cassettes and DAT's it won't be as much of an issue as both are
comparatively inexpensive (although I will never be quoted as saying that
DAT's are cheap).

But why have a VHS vcr for the old software and an HDTV VCR
for the new (two vcr's) if they can't dub between each other?


Robert
From: jdavidso@teknowledge.com (Jim Davidson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: rent stuff for flight
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:20:10 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation, Knowledge Systems Division
In-reply-to: james.kewageshig@canrem.com's message of 22 Jul 92 05:24:16 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.845.15707@dosgate> james.kewageshig@canrem.com (james kewageshig) writes:

> On a sub-related topic, I was watching a local show here in Toronto
> (MovieTelevision) where they did this report on a small company that
> came up with what I think is a GREAT idea for killing time on a plane...
> 
> You can rent the following items and return them at your destination:
> 
> Sony's Video-8 player (the one with the built-in colour LCD)
> 8mm feature movies

This is indeed a good idea.  It's actually been around for a while.

*Unfortunately*, many airlines are moving to squelch it from the start, by
ruling that you can't use such devices on the plane.  

American Airlines is one such case.  On a recent flight I read the fine print
in the in-flight mag concerning such things.  I don't remember all the details,
but I think that computers are OK (except during takeoff or landing), but a video
player is not.

Dunno why a video player should cause problems.  The printed notice referred
to electromagnetic interference with instruments or something like that.  I'm
skeptical.

There's been some discussion of this issue before, either in this group,
or in one of the video mags.

-Jim
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: JWEST@r3vm.dsd.trw.com (Judson West)
Subject: Re: General Comments on NBC's Olympic Coverage
Organization: TRW Electronic Systems Group
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:46:04 GMT

In article <3731@vidiot.UUCP>
brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
 
>In article <1992Jul28.165250.1@ptavv.llnl.gov> oberman@ptavv.llnl.gov writes:
><
><The triplecast is live from 5AM to 5PM Pacific. Since I was not even remotely
><inclined to pay for live coverage while I'm at work, I can't say anything about
><it.
>
>That should be 5am to 5pm EASTERN, not PACIFIC.
>--
 
Speaking of the triplecast, I just heard on a local radio station
(KLOS - Los Angeles) that one channel of the triplecast will be made available
FREE on CNBC (Cable NBC, i guess) for today and tomorrow. Details are
unavailable. Can someone else confirm?
 
Judson West
From: dps@otter.hpl.hp.com (Duncan Smith)
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:39:03 GMT
Subject: Re: Blue Lasers
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
Newsgroups: rec.video

> >BTW, the shorter wavelength of the blue laser is also supposed to allow
> >much higher storage densities on laser-read media (CDs, LDs). Several
> >hours' worth of music would be able to fit on a 5" CD, and LDs would for
> >the first time be able to hold a full movie's worth of HDTV info
> >(current LD technology can only hold a few minutes' worth of HDTV
> >program).

> Now, THIS is what I'm waiting for!  I heard some stuff on this too,
> but it was all rather sketchy.  Anyone else hear anything?

There was an article in a British newspaper yesterday (Monday). From
memory, it spoke of a ~447nm wavelength blue laser. The effect on CD
was predicted to be an increase in playing time to well over three
hours with the possibility of far more information per unit time
stored on disc. Unfortunately, LD was not mentioned but the original
point quoted above seems relevant. Future generations of equipment
would also play back current software but obviously the reverse
would not apply.

To those not familiar with the physical principles (and I'm sure
that's not very many at all), the shorter laser wavelength enables
much more precise focussing of the beam, thereby allowing much
smaller pits to be used on the medium surface. Such pits could not
be read back by the current generation of longer wavelength (red)
lasers.

Shorter wavelengths focus better in inverse proporion to wavelength
(Rayleigh's criterion): the width of the first maximum (=spot) is
~1.22 times the wavelength, so, halve the wavelength, halve the
radius of the spot it can be focussed to.

Duncan