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From: DE@PHOENIX.SCH.SYMBOLICS.COM (Doug Evans)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Are "Monster Cables" worth it?
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:35:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

>Date: 16 Jan 93 23:58:58 GMT
>From: Anthony Datri <siemens!aad@princeton.edu>

>>Hi.  I've seen gold plated video cables called "monster cables" at
>>Radio Shack.  How much better are they than regular cables?
>>Thanks in advance for your help!

>There's a long-standing religious war about cables.  One problem is
>that there was long a big gap in the available cables -- one could
>find really cheap crap at audio stores, and really expensive Monster
>Cable stuff, but little or nothing in between.  I ordered some "Hosa"
>cables from a musician-supply place that are better than the cheap
>crap, but I've also seen that Monster Cable has recently come out
>with an "economy" line that peons can afford.

I used to be a non believer in high dollar cables.  Wire is wire, right?

Well, I was proven wrong.  Last month I bought a new Nakamichi CD
player and the dealer said I *had* to connect it to my system with a
pair of cables that cost $125.  Major sticker shock!!  No way was I
going to spend that much on a single pair of phono cables.  So I sat
down at one of their systems and did a listening test, comparing the
cheapie $4 cables that came with the unit to a midline $30 set and to the
$125 set.

I was amazed.  The difference between the cheap cables and the $125
cables was not subtle.  The highs were suppressed, the midrange was
exaggerated, and the bass was not as smooth using the cheap cables.
There was a similar difference between the cheap cables and the $30
cables.  And, because I don't have golden ears, I could barely distinguish
the difference between the $30 cables and the $125 cables.  So,
obviously, I bought three pair of $30 cables for my system instead of
one pair of $125 cables.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ethan@cs.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: How do you degauss a TV set?
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:54:53 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.175337.12469@bmerh85.bnr.ca> stud1b53@bnr.ca writes:
>
>    Isn't the degaussing function implemented by the on/off switch?  I
>read somewhere that repeatedly turning the set on and off will accelerate
>the deguassing process (in the absence of a dedicated degauss button, of
>course).
>
	I was told by a repair person that, at least for my
Toshiba, if you've left it off for an hour or so and the set has
cooled down, when you turn it back on it degausses automatically.
	-- Ethan


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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ncc1701@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Mark Chadwick)
Subject: Re: Laser projection TV - does it exist?
Reply-To: ncc1701@acm.rpi.edu
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:07:50 GMT

aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:

>Remember that that rate would vary across both vertically and horizontally
>because of the changing angle between the beam path and the screen.  I'd bet
>that these kinds of optics would be very fussy.

Yep!  However, what we tried in or little experiement
a few years back was storing the info in a frame buffer,
and varying the read-back rate...that way, we didn't have to worry
much about wierd problems with horizontal distortion. Vertical
we solved to some extent similarly, but not to our satisfaction.

>I would think that lasers by definition would produce a quite bright picture.

Hmm..only if you stop scanning.  When you're scanning the wall
or your screen at a rate fast enough rate to reduce flicker
to a bare minimum, you're NOT left with a lot of brightness (unless
you're using an industrial laser, which we didn't have)

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From: smennitt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Mennitt)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: TOSHIBA HI-FI VCR
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:08:43 GMT
Reply-To: smennitt@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Stuart Mennitt)
Organization: NavSurfWarCen, CarderockDiv (ex-"Taylor Model Basin")

In rec.video, obrien@hri.com (Jim Obrien) writes:
>Could someone tell me how the Toshiba #M648
>rates in the consumer report.
>                               Thankx Jim.

    Toshiba rates highest in companies that illegally sell crucial defense
technology to eastern bloc countries.

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From: nealg@pokey.sybase.com (Neal Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Showtime is running Cape Fear LBX
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:34:39 GMT

In article <17JAN199312415705@loyola.edu>, mglicksman@loyola.edu (Michael `SLAM' Glicksman) writes:
|> In article <28076@sybase.sybase.com>, nealg@pokey.sybase.com (Neal Goldsmith) writes...
|> >Starting last night (1/14/93) Showtime is running "Cape Fear" in letterbox
|> >format. I couldn't believe it!
|> > 
|> 
|> 	I was surprised to see this too! Is there a reason why they are showing
|> this particular movie in LBX? And didn't they show it in PAN & SCAN also?
|> 

From what I was told it's an experiment. I heard remember something about the
director asking for it to be done.
 
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: meyer@borneo.gmd.de (Wolfgang Meyer)
Subject: Which VCR fits best to Sony TR-705E
Reply-To: meyer@borneo.gmd.de
Organization: GMD, German National Research Center for Computer Science
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:37:54 GMT

Hi netters, 

which VCR fits best to my Camcorder Sony TR-705E (which is an TR-81 in US,
I think).
I'm interested in little editing (only feature: skip some recorded minutes), 
but high image quality.

Thanks for your advice

Wolfgang


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From: stealth@wet.UUCP (James Yin)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Simple way to produce black
Date: 21 Jan 93 06:52:00 GMT
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco


Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bp@cs.brown.edu (Boris Putanec)
Subject: Re: Showtime is running Cape Fear LBX
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:18:47 GMT

In article <C17ut3.49t@encore.com> mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer) writes:

   Having just returned from a few weeks in Europe I was amazed to see MOST
   movies were shown in letter-box form on French TV.

Another data point. I spent 3 weeks in Austria and almost every move I
saw was letterboxed. This was true for the two Austrian national
channels, the 3 major German networks--ABC, NBC and CBS equivalents,
and the satellite only channles--RTL and Sat*1.

When I asked my parents, they said "It has always been this way"
(funny, cause I don't remember it being that way last January I was
there). They also agreed with me that it makes much more sense to see
the whole file image instead of only a portion.

Sigh. Another reason to get a job in Europe.

boris
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: syd@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Dennis P Hilgenberg)
Subject: Re: Sony SLV-696HF Problems 
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 00:31:25 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.170224.443@e2big.mko.dec.com> tomg@zko.dec.com writes:

>>     1. Intermittent "popping" on pre-recorded hi-fi tapes. 

I have this problem, too (also on an SLV-696HF, which I just bought).
This popping doesn't happen on the linear tracks.  

Occasionally it's bad enough that the machine momentarily switches
to the linear tracks (this is characterized by a sudden burst of hiss,
given the poor SNR of that track combined with the lack of Dolby noise
reduction on the machine; also, the momentary absence of the "stereo"
indicator confirms this).  

I think it's a problem with tape dropouts.  

Pardon my ignorance; I'm not certain how the hi-fi recording is done,
but my suspicion is that it's either a compansion scheme or some sort
of frequency modulation or both.  Either would lead to some strange artifacts
if the signal were completely lost, for example, during a dropout.
 
I've never seen either of the video problems you've mentioned, though.
The picture is very good, as a matter of fact.  

Overall, with the exception of the unfortunate lack of audio input
level controls, I'm very happy with this machine.  

Not that it's really an issue, but is there any reason why the machine
can't display the time counter during special effects modes (particularly
while the tape is paused)?


-- 
Dennis P. Hilgenberg
syd@ecn.purdue.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo
From: Adrian C Ruigrok <aruigrok@bnr.ca>
Subject: Re: Photo CD recording
X-Xxdate: Tue, 26 Jan 93 11:09:44 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:04:30 GMT

What is the process for recording PhotoCD's.  I am interested
in creating custom slide shows using PhotoCD instead of typical
slides.  But to do so do I need a $50 000 Sparc system with 
specialty hardware, or can I get a $10 000 box and hook it up
to my Macintosh to do this?

In a related question, the local photo finishers are charging 
$2 an image to transfer existing negatives to PhotoCD.  This is
above the $10 cost of the disk itself.  Is this a reasonable 
price to cover their costs?  I think the price is going to 
have to come down be a factor of 10 to make this technology 
widespread.  No?

Thanks,
Adrian
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Adrian C Ruigrok                 Bell-Northern Research
aruigrok@bnr.ca                  Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dave@imax.imax.com (Dave Martindale)
Subject: Re: Mac Backup and audio (or video)
Organization: Imax Corporation, Mississauga Canada
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:25:11 GMT

dd36+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel M. Deright) writes:
>
>        The reason you can't find these drives anywhere is because they
>are illegal.  The same legislation that provided for SCMS (Serial Copy
>Management System) stated that consumer audio and data recording could
>not be mixed.

I don't know what the legislation says, but such drives certainly do
exist.  I have here an SGI Indigo with CD-ROM and DAT drives.
The CD-ROM is used for software and data distribution, the DAT tape
is used for reading and writing arbitrary digital data just like any
tape drive.

But the CD-ROM also plays audio CD's, passing the data to the host across
the SCSI bus, where the bits can be routed to the onboard audio outputs,
recorded on disk, or both.  The DAT unit also reads and writes audio DAT
tapes - you can digitize analog audio and record it to DAT, or copy
analog data between magnetic disk and DAT in either direction.

Of course, you can also sample sounds into memory, edit and mix them,
and most of the other things you'd want an audio workstation to do.
Given a general-purpose digital sound tool like this, it would be
nearly impossible to prohibit CD-to-DAT copying without totally
crippling the capabilities of the machine.  Digital audio is just bits,
after all.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: FAQ?
Keywords: 8^)
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:54:08 GMT

>Can anyone tell me the FTP site of FAQ of this group?

Sure!  It's in the FAQ.



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From: miracle@ccwf.utexas.edu (Wade Walker)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Laser projection TV - does it exist?
Date: 28 Jan 93 06:06:20 GMT
Organization: UT at Austin
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
X-XXMessage-ID: <A78CD00FDB01B974@slip-x16.ots.utexas.edu>
X-XXDate: Wed, 27 Jan 93 05:49:35 GMT

I've done a bit more research since I posted the original article (by
the way, thanks to Robert and Anthony for their replies).  The only
reference I could find was in the 1986 Television Engineering
Handbook, which cited a paper by T. Taneda, et. al. in something
called the SID 1973 Symposium Digest Technical Papers, vol. 4, May
1973, pp. 86-87.  The TEH included a diagram of it - it used rotating
mirrors and prisms, that sort of thing.  Still, I was amazed that it
had been done in '73.

It seems that one could make an improvement on this system by
using more modern laser-deflection techniques.  I remember seeing
a setup at SIGGRAPH '90 which used some sort of crystalline
substance which changed its index of refraction when a voltage was
applied.  I'll have to look into it some more to see whether this would
be feasible for use in TVs (they were using it for something else).

Anyway, the reason for all of this is that I was thinking: if I wanted
to start an American company to produce consumer video
electronics, what product could I start with?  Not VCRs, or
camcorders, for sure.  It seems that TVs which employed some sort
of superior imaging technology would be a good bet, since it doesn't
matter whats on the inside of a TV so long as the picture looks good
and it runs off NTSC signals.  Possible entrepreneurial idea?


			Wade Walker (miracle@ccwf.utexas.edu)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:08:46 EST
From: H Campbell <HCAMPBEL@vma.cc.nd.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Problem with CP8 Turbo
 <1jpoe0INNhq6@gizmo.usc.edu> <sony.727801828@camelot>

While we have this thread open, I would like to know if anyone else
has encountered the following problem in the Turbo.
    I found that if I enter a sequence of 16 or more entries and then
try to insert a new entry before slot 16, everything shifts up 1
position until you get to 16.  That is,  14 moves to 15, 15 moves to
16, 16 moves to the bit bucket, 17 and above stay the same.  Then if
if I try to do a second insert below 16, when I press the store key
the entire unit is locked - no key will work and I have to reset
the unit (not a lot of fun!)
   I talked to the factory today, and they claim to have never heard
of this problem and indicate my unit is probably defective.  It was
purchased this month and is still under warrenty, but I wonder if
this is really an obscure firmware bug.

H Gregory Campbell               |   hcampbel@vma.cc.nd.edu
Systems Programmer               |   hcampbel@irishvma
Univ. of Notre Dame              |
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA         |   (219) 631-5600
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: nau@ssesco.com (William Nau)
Subject: Schmuck wants a VCR
Organization: SSESCO
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:19:37 GMT

Hi, I'm one more schmuck that doesn't read this room and doesn't know
how to shop for a VCR.  I'm the kind of guy that keeps popping up in
news groups like this and keeps you from getting anything meaningful
done.  Yes, I have seen some kind of FAQ thingie, but I want more.

Let me tell you what I want.

I'm a bit of an audio nut.  I want HiFi.  If HiFi sound quality varies
from one brand to the next, I'd like to know.  I want both audio
inputs and audio outputs.

I want a good picture.  I'm rarely impressed with the quality of VCR
pictures.  SVHS would be nice, but I probably wont pay that much.

Reliability.  Enuf said.

I really don't care about special effects.  Slow motion doesn't excite
me.  Sure they're fun for a while, but that dies out.

Naturally, I would like to record, but I don't care about editing.

VCR+  I don't want to pay for it.  I think I can manage to program the
thing myself.

I'm cheap.  I'd rather not spend more than $400, but may be convinced
to spend up to $450.

Replies via email would be best.  I will attempt to browse the group
for the next several days, but I miss things.

Thanks for putting up with me.
-- 
William R. Nau
Supercomputer Systems Engineering and Services Company (SSESCO)
511 11th Avenue South, Suite 216
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415-1536
(612) 342-0003

nau@SSESCO.com
From: kimd@gizmo.usc.edu (Kim Daugherty)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Problem with CP8 Turbo
Date: 22 Jan 1993 13:20:00 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gizmo.usc.edu


I don't have one of these remotes yet, but would like to know if a pause
can be programmed within a chain of commands?  Specifically, I would like
to switch my receiver to video input, pause 2 seconds, and then adjust the
volume, all within a single program.  The 2 sec pause is necessary because
all commands are locked out for that period after switching the input mode.

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| kimd@gizmo.usc.edu              | University of Southern California |
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ALLAM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Seyed Allameh)
Subject: vcr wanted
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:32:34 GMT

A friend of mine is looking for a cheap VCR (No bells and whistles required).
It should be in working order,nonetheless. Please send an e-mail if you have
one and indicate name and model,age, and price.

Regards,

Seyed
From: ayu@cory.Berkeley.EDU (agnes yu)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: svhs version of panasonic ag-w1
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:01:52 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley


Hi folks

Does anyone know if there exists a svhs machine with a built-in 
standards converter (i.e. svhs version of the panasonic ag-w1)?

Or, if I just connected the output of the ag-w1 to the input of
an svhs machine, would I get svhs-quality video?

Thanks in advance!
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Subject: Re: Weird color-distortion problems?
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
	<C18rAD.2o4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
Distribution: rec
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:00:19 GMT

In article <C18rAD.2o4@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> flowerpt@coos.dartmouth.edu (Bill McGonigle) writes:

   In article <MJKOBB.93Jan20204203@media-lab.media.mit.edu> mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
   >  I was looking at TV's today, in one of those stores where they
   >have about a billion of them on the wall all showing the same thing.
   >One of them (a Sony), was having some color problems.  In large,
   >saturated regions of color, there were patches of other bizarre
   >colors.  Examples:  Yellow and blue had grey-white patches.  Reds
   >had bluish patched in it.  I've seen this same phenomenon at home,
   >too, when watching some of the cable stations (usually A&E,
   >actually).

   I did this to a monitor once with a magnet.  PITA to fix it...


Hi,

  No, it wasn't like a magnetized shadow mask or anything
(difficult, seeing as how it was a projector anyway).  It's
difficult to describe this in print, but it really looked like some
sort of signal problem.  Perhaps some sort of overload condition?

--Mike
From: obrien@hri.com (Jim Obrien)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: TOSHIBA HI-FI VCR
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:40:07 GMT
Reply-To: obrien@bigbird.hri.com
Organization: Horizon Research, Inc.

Could someone tell me how the Toshiba #M648
rates in the consumer report.
                               Thankx Jim.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: interpol@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Drew Cheng)
Subject: Re: Letterboxed video source
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:40:15 GMT

In article <C1HJo3.K2s@cobra.cs.unm.edu> mhall@cobra.cs.unm.edu (Mary E. Hall) writes:
>If any of you know of a good mailorder source for letterboxed versions
>of VHS movies, would you please email me with phone numbers? I'm really
>only interested in letterboxed movies - I don't buy many pre-recorded
>movies, but I'd like to have really nice copies of my favorites.
>

Same here.  Please post or e-mail.  Thanks a lot.

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From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: A good Hi-Fi VHS VCR?
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:04:09 GMT

I am thinking of buying a third VCR (I currently have Hi8 and S-VHS) 
for duplication purpose.  It must have all the essentials, including 
Hi-Fi stereo sound, 4 DA heads, flying erase head, and a shuttle 
ring, for less than $500 street price.  Any recommendation will be 
helpful.
From: rmf@bbn.com (Robert M. Fleischman)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Schmuck wants a VCR
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:45:03 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: quartz.bbn.com


I have a SONY HIFI VCR (525), I think the audio is great.

	Rob


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From: rmf@bpdsun1.uucp (Rob Finley)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Sony Trinitron, Sony HF595 VCR, 60 Cycle Hum
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:05:47 GMT
Organization: Harris Allied Broadcast Div., Quincy, IL


A possible method for curing hum problems is to make
sure that your entire system is plugged into the same
outlet strip.  
Sometimes that can be the simplest solution.  Get one
of those surge protector strips while you are at it.
In one case, it meant that I had to put the amp
on an extension cord.  On the other hand, the AC extension
was cheaper than speaker cables. B-)


Hum is caused by AC leaking into the shields of your
cables and can be minimized by forcing the
path to take the correct route (ac cord) rather than
through your cables.

It is sometimes hard amongst different manufacturers
but if you are making your own cables, make sure that the
shield is only connected on one side of the cable.  If you
connect ground on both ends, it allows current to pass along
the cable.  The shield should bring AC noise back to the source.

Keeping a ground reference between the two components is
rarely important as the AlternatingCurrent Audio signal 
usually goes through a DC-blocking capacitor on the inputs
of the peripheral.


Robert
From: aj008@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Aaron M. Barnes)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Wanted:Sony SLV-575 or SLV-676 Hi-Fi VCR
Date: 24 Jan 1993 03:37:22 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc10.ins.cwru.edu


If you have one for sale,or know where I can get one,please let m
e know.
Thank you.
-- 
Aaron
aj008@cleveland.freenet.edu
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