HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy)
Subject: Re: How to listen to cordless phone on AM/FM radio???
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:38:09 GMT

carllr@sluggo.sdsc.edu (Rich Carll) writes:

>Cordless phone conversations are held on only 10 channels. The handsets all
>talk in the 46mhz range and the base units in the 49mhz range. All obtainable
>via police scanners. Unknown how you would do it on a fm radio.

>I'm sure you know this is illegal, of course. And will put a get deal of
>mistrust between you and your friends if they know you can hang outside
>their house and listen to their conversations! <commentary.h>

Actually, it is not illegal to listen to cordless phone conversations.
It is illegal to listen to cellular phone conversations and (if I
recall correctly) it is illegal to reveal any info you learn when
listening to a cordless phone call.
-- 

Anson Kennedy                                Internet:  anson@netcom.com
Secretary of the Georgia Skeptics          Compu$erve:  71167,2435  
(but don't even THINK I speak for         Prodigy(sm):  DVCW08A  
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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: jennings@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com (Tim Jennings)
Subject: Re: How to listen to cordless phone on AM/F
Reply-To: jennings@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola, Inc.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:52:06 GMT

In article 1gihhdINNh0c@network.ucsd.edu, carllr@sluggo.sdsc.edu (Rich Carll) writes:
$$$
$$$
$$$
$$$Cordless phone conversations are held on only 10 channels. The handsets all
$$$talk in the 46mhz range and the base units in the 49mhz range. All obtainable
$$$via police scanners. Unknown how you would do it on a fm radio.
$$$
$$$I'm sure you know this is illegal, of course. And will put a get deal of
$$$mistrust between you and your friends if they know you can hang outside
$$$their house and listen to their conversations! <commentary.h>
$$$
$$$Rich
$$$

Sorry, meant to put this in the previous posting. Motorola has a cordless that has
a scrambled signal that cannot be understood on a cordless. To my knowledge this
is the only phone that has this capability. Understand that the security features
on other phones keep other cordless handsets from picking up your signal but not
police scanners. They come through plain as day.

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Timothy J. Jennings 			"I Yam What I Yam."
Motorola SSDT Division			--Popeye
email: jennings@ssdt-tempe.sps.mot.com

Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: M02449@mwvm.mitre.org (Joe Gems)
Subject: Re: Sharing FM and TV Cable
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, McLean VA 22102
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:49:26 GMT

In article <16620005@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com>
donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery) writes:
 
>
>In rec.video.cable-tv, rlm@sei.cmu.edu (Richard Murphy) writes:
>
>
>>    Is it feasible to "share" video co-ax cable with FM and TV signals?  Pro
>
>You could probably do it with splitters, but you'd lose -3db at each end.
>Don't try this with a commercial cable system or you'll wind up "broad-
>casting" the TV signal out the FM antenna.  (As an aside, most commercial
>cable systems send the FM band out on the cable)
>
>If your coaxial cable is loose in the walls, could you use it to fish thru
>a siamese cable or two separate cables?
>
>Don Montgomery
>donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com
 
Wait a minute - am I missing something here???? My answer would have been a
simple "yes", since the entire FM band is right smack in the middle of the
VHF TV band (either between channels 5 and 6, or between 6 and 7 - I forget).
 
   Joe
Xref: sparky rec.video.cable-tv:2188 sci.electronics:21021
From: dnwangus@flash.LakeheadU.Ca (Dave Angus)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,sci.electronics
Subject: Universal Descrambler FAQ wanted
Date: 17 Dec 1992 22:15:36 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video.cable-tv
Distribution: na
Organization: Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ont., Canada

Howdy folks:

  Does anyone have a FAQ file for the Radio-Electronics 
Universal Descrambler, or just a collection of posts
regarding it?

  I saw a post about a year ago which mentioned several
changes to component values.  Unfortunately I nuked the
file I saved it to.  

  If there is no FAQ, I'd be glad to compile any info, old
posts, whatever into one. 

regards,
--
Dave Angus                                   "Kundalini wants his hand back"
Xref: sparky rec.video.cable-tv:2172 rec.video.satellite:7113 rec.video:14717
From: wstasior@mustard.lcs.mit.edu (Bill Stasior)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv,rec.video.satellite,rec.video
Subject: Re: TCI announces 500 channels on its systems in 2 years?
Date: 15 Dec 92 07:13:25 GMT
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

In article <MBN.92Dec4133529@greyskul.hf.intel.com> mbn@greyskul.hf.intel.com (Mike Northam) writes:

>Hah!  You're talking about putting 4-5 channels of video in the same
>bandwidth that is now occupied by 1 channel (using compression
>technology).  You'll have a *worse* picture than you're now getting.  In
>fact, because of the limitations of the system (artifacts, etc.), they
>can't use it for live sports events, but only for movies, where the
>frame-to-frame images change only slightly.  Some of the better reviews
>for the system say things like "you can hardly tell the image has been
>processed", etc.

Yes but the transmission is digital so the received signal should be 
identical to the one that was sent.  I'd imagine that the reviews are
for side by side tests between the original signal and the signal after
it has been compressed/decompressed.  If "you can hardly tell" the difference,
the end result should be a big win over an analog signal that's been sent
over a typical cable line.  

Also, while it may be the case that sporting events achieve lower
compression ratios than movies, I believe that the primary distinction
between movies and sports events is that movies don't have to be
compressed in real time.  Interframe compression techniques typically
take much, much longer than decompression techniques.  

- Bill Stasior
From: donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com (Don Montgomery)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:51:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Sharing FM and TV Cable
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Rosa, CA
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv

In rec.video.cable-tv, rlm@sei.cmu.edu (Richard Murphy) writes:


>    Is it feasible to "share" video co-ax cable with FM and TV signals?  Pro

You could probably do it with splitters, but you'd lose -3db at each end.
Don't try this with a commercial cable system or you'll wind up "broad-
casting" the TV signal out the FM antenna.  (As an aside, most commercial
cable systems send the FM band out on the cable)

If your coaxial cable is loose in the walls, could you use it to fish thru
a siamese cable or two separate cables?

Don Montgomery
donrm@hpnmdla.sr.hp.com
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
Subject: Re: Sharing FM and TV Cable
Date: 20 Dec 92 17:59:42 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Dec19.193213.6290@desire.wright.edu> kfriedman@desire.wright.edu writes:
<
<Some problems I've noticed...the stations received do not usually correspond to
<their usual location on the dial.  I put up with this though, because I can get
<a station I really like to listen to that I could not otherwise receive.  I've
<never really noticed any sort of interference problems, though there may be
<some problems with leakage that others postings on this topic have mentioned.

The cable-FM frequencies are NEVER the same as the over-the-air frequencies.
Think about it for a moment...yep, that's right, interference.  If you put on
cable the same frequency as the over-the-air frequency you can end up with
crap.  They will interfere with each other.  So, cable-FM always uses a
different frequency.  If you notice, you can still pick up the over-the-air
frequency as well as the cable-FM frequency.
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Newsgroups: rec.video.cable-tv
From: anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy)
Subject: Re: How to listen to cordless phone on AM/FM radio???
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:08:57 GMT

tweek@netcom.com (Michael D. Maxfield) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.213809.22427@netcom.com> anson@netcom.com (Anson Kennedy) writes:

[...]

>>Actually, it is not illegal to listen to cordless phone conversations.
>>It is illegal to listen to cellular phone conversations and (if I
>>recall correctly) it is illegal to reveal any info you learn when
>>listening to a cordless phone call.
>>-- 

>Unless, of course, if you live in California, then it is illegal to
>listen to cordless telephones,  unless you don't believe that the
>States heve the power to make certain types of radio communication
>illegal.  Yes, believe it or not,  The wonderfull reps in the
>CALIF Senat and Assembly believe they have the power to create
>rules involving FCC authorized communications.

Someone also informed me of this e-mail.

Well, we all know California is a special case, anyway. :-)
-- 

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Secretary of the Georgia Skeptics          Compu$erve:  71167,2435  
(but don't even THINK I speak for         Prodigy(sm):  DVCW08A  
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From: johan@cav2.crc.canon.co.jp
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Hi8mm vcr that doew RC time code, know of any?
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:06:40 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Center, Canon Inc., Kanagawa, JAPAN
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: cav2

In article <33080061@hpmwmat.sr.hp.com>, mikep@hpmwtd.sr.hp.com (Mike Powell) writes:
> 
> 	
> 	I _believe_ that the Sony VDeck  (CVD-1000) does indeed lay down RC....
> 	(it reads is for sure, as does the EVO-9650).
> 
Yes, it can lay down RC time-code, and it can even read professional time-code,
which is incompatible with the RC time-code. (RC stands for Rewritable Consumer
time-code).

- Johan
johan@cav2.crc.canon.co.jp
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo,rec.arts.books
From: hamm@weejordy.physics.mun.ca (Craig Hamm)
Subject: Re: Photo CD
Organization: Ocean Sciences Centre
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:57:01 GMT

	About resolution:

	Allow me to be an idiot, because I can't remember the numbers
	exactly, but my roomate (an audio/video phile of sorts) was not
	at all impressed with the resolution of te Photo Cd system.
	He figures it doesn't even utilize the resolution of most TV
	screens with respect to pixels.  So, why is this ? 
	Wy didn't Kodak optimize the pixels?  (Problem maybe with rectangles
	in square tv screens? Anyway, film will never die!)

-- 
  Craig Hamm, Memorial University,|   
  Newfoundland, Ocean Acoustics__/   
  DoD #1500,      ____________/          
  1981 Maxim 650 /            
  _______________| 

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: LDs available as both MATTED and LETTERBOXED
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:54:07 GMT

Here is the list of laserdiscs available on *both* matted and 
letterboxed formats (compiled from The Laser Beam catalog of 
Starship Audio-Industries):

 1. Annie Hall
 2. Back to the Future II
 3. Back to the Future III
 4. Black Rain
 5. Ghost
 6. Gremlins
 7. Never Ending Story
 8. North by Northwest
 9. Princess Bride
10. Risky Business
11. Sea of Love
12. Taxi Driver
13. Ten Commandments

Personally, I prefer letterboxed matted format, which is what 
director intended his audience to see.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: swkong@midway.ecn.uoknor.edu (Sieg Wooi Kong)
Subject: LD and 5 CD changers, how many are there??????
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:13:29 GMT
Organization: Engineering Computer Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA


Hi! I've been bugged by this question for a long time
and it was only until now I have decided to take some   
initiative to ask around for the right answer.
How many makes and models are there on the market that
plays 5 CDs and also LD?
As far as I know there is only one and that's from 
Pioneer. My friend keeps on insisting that there is 
also another one by SONY and even a few other makes.
So if someone could clear up this matter for me, I'll 
be very grateful. Please note that I'm talking about
the 5 CDs and not the 5 sizes of CD.
Thank you!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!

Melvyn



Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.satellite,rec.video.production,rec.video.cable-tv
From: barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber)
Subject: Re: Timbe Base Correction with Start of Line Generator
Organization: MCNC Center for Communications -- CONCERT Network
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 15:16:21 GMT

In article <4583@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>
>A TBC is used to remove mechanical jitter problems when playing back tapes.
>If you were to look at house sync and the output of a tape deck, you'll see
>the horizontal lines wander all over the place.  In order to do video
>production, be it editing that requires video mixing, or on-air playback,
>the TBC takes the incoming video from the tape deck and outputs the video
>according to house sync.

Not to be picky, but so that it will be really clear, all that TBCing does 
is to stabilize the sync signal. Period.  Most TBC devices, though, also
have other functions included with them.  One of these is a
genlocking function, which "times" the output of the sync signal to
the house sync.  Another common function is the ability to adjust
other signals in the video, such as setup, color phase (hue), etc.
This is the "proc amp" circuitry, and is unrelated to the TBC
functionality.

It's a bit like the question, what is a car!  Well, it's true that
it is something you move around in while listening to the radio...

>Keep in mind that a TBC can be used without house sync 

Right.  

in order to repair
>bad sync signals and do some color correction.

The TBC repairs the bad sync signals, and the proc amp installed in
the TBC device does some color correction.


>Speaking of color correction, that is another purpose of the TBC.  

>	Video stabilization and color restoration.

This is the misleading part.


Now if I just had me some more money, I'd get a TBC WITH genlocking
AND proc amping, and I wouldn't care about the distinctions!!

Thanks for the indulgence,

Scott

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Scott Barber	  "I voted for the crazy, bozo, ozone men."
barber@jazz.concert.net		"What is the freedom of the most
MCNC, RTP, NC, BVD 	 	 free?  To act rightly!" --Goethe
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jt@pacdata.com ()
Subject: I BOUGHT ONE!
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:19:46 GMT


Well ...

After much thought and looking and touching, I decided to buy the FX710
camcorder :-()  I looked at the TR-81, FX710 and the TR-101.

TR-81
-----
Nice little unit.  Focus looked really good.  I especially liked the macro
focus (I was told that this was on all Sony's). Zoom was not as fast as
that of the FX710.  But, the big draw back for me was it only had an 8x zoom.


TR-101
------
Nice unit.  10x zoom; really fast too.  Nifty little feature, the remote
senser pops up so you can pick up commands from the remote from any position.
This would be really neat if you were using a steady-cam(?) jr.  The 
stabilization setting was REALLY IMPRESSIVE!  I don't know how it works but it
does.  


FX710
-----
The only difference for me was that this unt was ~$500 dollars cheeper than the 
TR-101 :)  It has most of the features that I would ever need.



I ordered it from CWO

The prices were good (except for the 101 which was $10 higher than cousins)

TR-81  $859.00
FX710  $889.99
TR-101 $1390.00

Shipping (3-day guaranteed) $30.00

Would any one share their experiences with theeir FX710?  How do you like it?
What problems have you had?  

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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jcd@punch (John C. Davis)
Subject: Use of RF output
Keywords: RF output jack, Video RCA,
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation; El Segundo, CA
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:30:59 GMT

I have a configuration question? I have a Panasonic SVHS player and a JVC  
TV with video input and S-Video input.  My question is when hooking up my  
cable system do I have to use  the RF out jack in order to get the cable  
feed to my TV or can I use the Video or the S-Video jacks? And what if any  
tradeoff in picture quality is there?  
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo,rec.arts.books
From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
Subject: Re: Photo CD
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:38:30 GMT

In article <1go4f1INNhsu@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> Peter Hsrris <pharris@ucscm.ucsc.edu> writes:
>[deletions]
>If one takes as a starting point Kodachromes maximum resolving power
>under optimum lighting conditions of (I recall) 165 lines per mm (OK, let
>s be modern and call it 165 PIXELS per mm.), squares it (were talking
>horizontal and vertical dimensions here, so you square 165) and
>multiplies that out by the dimensions of a 35 mm slide (24 x 36 mm) and
>then times three (number of colors that the slide is made of (RGB or YMC,
>its all academic for purposes of this example)) the result shows to go
>you that a 35 mm. slide is capable of (ideally) holding approximately 70
>MEGABYTES of data (albeit in analog form.) Dats a lot o data. Im not
>familiar with the compression savings under PhotoCD, but even if you
>could squash the data by 75% its still a megafile.

Except that number for film is line PAIRS/mm (line and contrasting
line) and thus kodachrome is 330 pixels/mm.  so the storage density is
another 4x your numbers.

<dp>
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jet@boxer.nas.nasa.gov (J. Eric Townsend)
Subject: Re: Video Toaster for Mac?
Organization: Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation, NASA Ames
Date: 15 Dec 92 11:23:16

"will" == Will Murray <will@orac.holonet.net> writes:

will> The Amiga version is wonderful.  I've heard that they have a
will> "black box" version coming out, which is basically an Amiga CPU
will> you connect to your Mac.  That seems rather silly to me!  Why
will> not just use the Mac's own built-in video capabilities?

It's not that simple.  To put a toaster in a mac, one has to put a
toaster and an amiga in a mac.  If NewTek wants to black-box design an
amiga-clone, and put that on the toaster card, that'd probably work.

Why?

The Toaster makes *extensive* use of the Amiga's custom chipset and
the fact that the Amiga's master clock is based on NTSC (and can be
slaved to an external NTSC signal).

When the Toaster was shown at MacWorld (or MacExpo?) a couple of years
ago, there was a story floating around that Sculley stormed out of
their booth ranting about "toy computers" after he was told there was
*no way* a toaster card could be made to work in *any* Mac.


--
             J. Eric Townsend --  jet@nas.nasa.gov -- 415.604.4311
              '92 R100R, DoD# 0378, BMWMOA, AMA, ACLU, EFF, CPSR
                                "HotHead Rules!"
From: evissch@cad033.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eise Visscher)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: D O E S   A M E R I C A   S A Y   Y E S   T O   J A P A N ?
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:04:28 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Intel Corp.

In article <16DEC199213433084@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov>, glk9533@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach) writes:
|> In article <71744@cup.portal.com>, Power@cup.portal.com (Ron A Uitz) writes...
|> >The first time this was posted, I thought to myself that Japanese trade
|> >practices were off topic.  Now that this has been posted again, I'll 
|> >waste bandwidth myself asking why it is posted here.  The commentary
|> >makes some interesting points (mostly stolen from a PBS documentary),
|> >but it belongs somewhere else.  
|> 
|> au contraire....this is a news group dominated by japanese hardware users.

... and even more by users of japanese hardware. (sorry, couldn't resist)
-- 
Eise Visscher                                            Design Technology
                                                         (408) 765-5032 RN4-36
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Video Review
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:09:34 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <19921214.104230.953@almaden.ibm.com>, DEASTMAN@vnet.ibm.com (Don Eastman) writes:
> In <14DEC199211462438@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> GREG KIMNACH writes:
>>It's back.....just got the annual buyer's guide.  Subscription: 8 issues
>>per year at $15.97.
>>
> 
> Is Video Review honoring subscriptions which were still active when they
> ceased publication?  You did not mention if you purchased this at the
> news-stand, or Video Review sent it to you because you were a former
> subscriber.
> 
>  =======================================================================
> |           Don Eastman            |   INTERNET: DEASTMAN@VNET.IBM.COM  |
> |     ADSTAR (IBM) Corporation     |     BITNET: DEASTMAN@VNET.BITNET   |
> |       San Jose, CA. 95193        |        FAX: (408) 256-7221         |
>  =======================================================================

According to the letter I got, they will be honoring subscriptions!  

	jay
From: sturges@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Richard Sturges)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: video toaster
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:58:05 GMT
Reply-To: sturges@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Richard Sturges)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD


For those of you asking about the Video Toaster, there is a free video
that shows all the cool stuff it does... I'll bring in the 800 number
tomarrow.



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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: robbo@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Dave Robinson)
Subject: Re: Video Toaster for Mac?
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 01:16:43 GMT
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

Is there a toaster notes group?
If so can someone post the title.
Thanks

	Dave Robinson

Newsgroups: rec.video