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From: gregpen@crash.cts.com (Greg Penetrante)
Subject: Re: Macrovision
Date: 15 Sep 92 07:25:17 GMT

In <1992Sep13.112957.19565@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:

>The "RXII" "Digital Video Stabilizer" sold for $49 at places that advertise
>in the back of video magazines works OK for standard Macrovision. There
>are reports of them failing on newer Disney releases that are rumored to
>use the new enhanced Macrovision formula. And they won't work at all
>on the Macrovision developed for pay-per-view systems.

>Search Technology  (305-745-9992 Monday mornings) makes a $300 box which
>reconstructs the NTSC signal and claims to work against everything.

>_______________________________Mike Schuster________________________________
>NY Pub. Access UNIX/Internet: schuster@panix.com | 70346.1745@CompuServe.COM
>The Portal (R) System: schuster@cup.portal.com   | MCI Mail,GEnie: MSCHUSTER

Another alternative for those who have production equipment access, is to run
the video signal through a full-frame timebase corrector! An Alta Cygnus TBC,
Panasonic AG-7750 and a JVC TBC all eliminated the Macrovision signals and
replaced them with brand-new sync!

They even work with the PPV signals.. just run the VCR video output (or decoder
video output) through the TBC and the signals will be eliminated. 

Caveat: Some TBC's will PASS the vertical interval signals, and therefore, one
must inquire as to whether or not a TBC will totally replace H&V sync signals.

-Greg
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Seeking info on a 10 year old video disk player
Date: 12 Sep 92 05:30:53 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep11.031807.27148@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
<In article <4032@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>In article <1992Sep8.153900.28030@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
<
<>[long article deleted]
<>
<><And boy am I glad that NEVER happened.  I own a pair of CED players,
<><and have many disks, but when the last of my favorites appears on LD,
<><I'll put the machine on a shelf as a museum piece - and remember that I
<><really enjoyed it for things it gave me.
<
<>Thanks for the info.  Much appreciated.  Until now, I'be only heard really
<>bad things about the CED units.  To me, anything that uses a needle instead
<>of a laser is asking for trouble.  I know the "needle" is different than a
<
<The 'needle' concept in the CED, and JVC's capacitance system VHD
<really took a drumming from the laser crowd.  "Needlevision" was one
<name.
<
<But actually the concept was good.  And the needle didn't wear
<significantly because it was not used to pickup information the same
<was a phonograph record does.

As I understand it, if a freeze frame/field was held for a long period of time,
the disc would wear out at that point on the disc.  Not exactly a good idea
in my mind.  I remember reading this in the press.
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Source wanted for VCR heads
Date: 5 Sep 92 17:00:41 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep4.155442.1852@ncsu.edu> kester@mte.ncsu.edu (Dan Kester) writes:
<My VCR needs a new head, I can install it myself, but Panasonic wants $171 for
<it.  It's a 4-head unit, and MCM and Parts express don't carry it.  Is it
<possible to get it cheaper somewhere else?  Or is that price typical for 4-head
<units?

Do you have all of the necessary equipment to align the new heads?  It isn't
as simple and removing the old cylinder and dropping in a new one and having
it work.  Many things need to be aligned.  Without the alignment tapes and
test equipment you will have shit for recordings and playback.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dcha@flex.com (Doug Cha)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Video tape degenerations questions:
Date: 11 Sep 92 03:02:13 GMT
Organization: Flex Information Network [Hawaii] 808.531.3539


        I have about 5 Sony VHG T120 tapes which I had recorded onto
once and played back a few times (about 3 months old).  My basic question 
is whether or not the erasure heads on VCR's do a good enough job for 
tapes to be "reused" or "re-recorded" on.
        The stuff I'm taping is for a collection so I'd like to be sure
that they last long, and are the BEST quality they can be.

        So should I dump those used tapes, or should I tape over them?


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From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: So Long, Columbia House!
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:59:50 GMT

Having recently fulfilled my membership agreement with the Columbia
House LaserDisc Club, I decided to finally free myself of the hassle of
returning those stupid postcards every month. I called the customer
service number, and asked the operator (who identified herself as
"June") to be placed on positive response. She asked me if I had another
account on positive response, and I replied that I did not. She then
told me that CH can no longer place accounts on positive response. She
claimed that they used to do it, but that they have not done it for
anyone for over a year now (obviously she's full of it, as people report
successful switches all the time). I said "so you'd rather lose a
customer than switch someone over to positive response?" and she replied
affirmatively. So I cancelled my account, and that was that (assuming,
of course, that CH doesn't screw up ;-)

Yet another example of CHLDC's oh-so-consistent customer service and
intelligent business practices. 			    !!!!NOT!!!!

And, of course, in a few months CH will be inundating my home with junk
mail, begging me to come back. Whatever their master business plan is,
it must be a doozy! ;-)

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: Letterbox versus P&S
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:20:26 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

> ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se (Pat Fargo 6266) writes:
> I just purchased Black Rain, and of my 40 inch vertical screen, there is a
> 20 inch strip of picture.  Sure, the broad scenes are better, but the rest
> of the movie looks like their heads are sliced off.  Do all of you really
> love this effect?  I have seen the Black Rain P&S, and the feeling of
> being in the movie is enormously improved from letterbox.

"Black Rain" on LD is a lose-lose proposition.  It was shot in the Super35
(full 1.37:1 silent aperture) format, and the letterbox LD was reportedly
supposed to have been a 1.85:1 extraction, but was done at 2.4:1 instead.
Consequently BOTH the LBX and the P&S editions are unsatisfactory.

If you want to start a productive debate about LBX vs P&S, and/or matted vs
open-matte, you need to pick another title.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599

This article represents only the opinion[s] of its author, and is not an
official or unofficial position of, or statement by, the Hewlett-Packard
Company.  The text is provided for informational purposes only.  It is
supplied without warranty of any kind.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Re: Letterbox versus P&S
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:42:00 GMT

In article <4992@calmasd.Prime.COM> jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski) writes:
>
><Maybe I'm alone, but I do not like letterbox. I have
><a 53 inch Sony, and it bothers when watching a strip of
><video in the middle of my screen. I just purchased
>
>...  Try darkening your room some more.

A good point, Jan.  If the viewing room is properly darkened and the
lighting is from behind the monitor (as recommended by Joe Kane in
the laserdisc 'A Video Standard') and if the monitor has a good
black level retention, then the black bands should blend with the
surrounding room darkness. It should look like a wide-screen TV!
(except for the loss of resolution which becomes most troublesome
on long shots where people and objects become so small as to melt
into the raster lines.)


-- 
                 "So many windows, So little time"

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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Subject: Re: FILM TO NTSC TAPE TRANSFER
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:14:27 GMT
Reply-To: rjn@FC.HP.COM
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

> EEC@PORTIA.UMDS.LON.AC.UK (Steve P eec@portia.umds.lon.ac.uk) writes:
> Could someone from the US or Canada explain how movies are transferred to
> NTSC videotape?.  Film runs at 24fps and NTSC tape at 30fps.

Sent LaserDisc standard article LD#12, which explains "3/2 pulldown".
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.releases
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan)
Subject: Re: What PC program To Catalog Videos (Laserdiscs)?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 13:43:02 GMT


In article <1992Sep05.211715.1053@uhura.neoucom.edu> wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
>If any of you keep a catalog of your videotapes and especially your
>laserdiscs with a DOS or WINDOWS program on a PC, I'd like to hear
>about your experiences.  E-mail or post is fine.
>
>After several years of keeping information on my laserdiscs in a
>wordprocessing text file (Wordperfect), I have decided it is time to
>use a real database.  I have looked at several shareware programs
>(Video Catalog, Video Librarian, Movie 3.0, For Film & Video Tape)
>and a couple of commercial databases (Pro Cite and Fox Pro).

I looked at a LOT of different video library managers, and NONE were
what I would consider "usable."

A little background on my collection: I started out with Beta, got an
8mm camcorder, then upgraded to a S-VHS camcorder and editing setup, so
now I have tapes in all three tape formats as well as laserdiscs. By far
the vast majority of video library managers assume the whole world uses
VHS and only VHS. I refer to these as "lemming-ware," since they were
obviously written by the lemmings who bought into the inferior VHS
format and helped sink Beta.

Of the remaining few programs, all lacked one feature or another which I
considered essential, or made other ridiculous assumptions (e.g. only
one program per tape, only 3 digits in the tape ID, no alphanumerics in
the tape ID, etc. etc.)

As you might guess, I ended up writing my own using a popular relational
database manager. I have two data files, one called "tapes" and one
called "programs." The tapes file contains information on each tape/disc,
e.g. the tape/disc ID number (which I assign according to my own
formula), the type of media (VHS, SuperBeta, LaserDisc), the length of
the tape (T120, L750), the tape's title, etc.

The programs database contains a list of programs indexed by the tape ID
of the tape/disc on which they appear. For example, I collect Star Trek
TNG episodes on L750 Beta cassettes, 3 shows per tape. Thus, the
programs file would contain three separate programs for tape "TNG-52,"
each in a separate database record. Using the relational capability of
the DBMS program, it's easy to set up a relation between the tapes data
and the programs data so that pulling up a program record also brings up
the associated tape record. That way, if you're looking for "Data's Day"
the program will quickly tell you that it's on tape "TNG-23" which is an
L750 recorded in SuperBeta format.

This could also be accomplished using a flat file database manager, at
the cost of a little extra storage space per program record. That's the
beauty of this approach: you can make it as simple or as complex as you
want. With products like Alpha 4, which are very simple to set up and
use even for non-programmers, there's no reason why anyone interested in
cataloging their video collection couldn't whip up their own.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bkotecha@cix.compulink.co.uk (Bipin Kotecha)
Subject: Re: Laserdisc vs. VCR
Reply-To: bkotecha@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 22:58:45 +0000


>       
>    Question to European readers:
> 
>       The Pioneer 1450 can play both PAL and NTSC discs on PAL TVs, but
>       can you copy NTSC discs to PAL video with it??
> 
> 

The Pioneer 1450 has been replaced by the 1750, in the UK at an
unchanged price.  The output of the 1450 is PAL and transcoded PAL
for NTSC discs. The 1750 also outputs in pure NTSC 3.58. The NTSC
signal is not converted to PAL. So the simple answer is no, you can't
copy NTSC discs to PAL video.



Bipin



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Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.games.video
From: howcome@media.mit.edu (Hakon Lie)
Subject: Do LIGHT PENS work with VIDEO PROJECTORS?
Organization: M.I.T. Media Laboratory
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 06:12:05 GMT

Do light pens work with video projectors?

I'm involved in a project where we want to use a pointing device on a
back-projected screen. We're playing with the idea of using a light
pen to track the position of the pointer, but will it work?

Do e.g. Nintendo guns (which are based on light pen principles I
presume) work if you send the video signal to a projector instead of a
TV set?  If yes, great -- tell me about it. If no, why not?

Some reasons why it may not work:

The projector in question uses three small CRTs (one for each RGB) to
display the image. Each CRT has a electron beam that hits and lights
up the phosphor which is projected onto the large screen through the
lenses. Maybe the electron beams are not in sync? Or perhaps the
characteristics of the phosphor in the CRTs are different from the
phosphor found in TV sets?

Any pointers to work done in this area would be greatly appreciated. 

-h&kon
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From: dhs@cs.utexas.edu (Douglas H. Steves)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Two questions - Matrix switcher, Sharp projector
Date: 8 Sep 1992 20:52:49 -0500
Organization: U Texas Dept of Computer Sciences, Austin TX
Distribution: world
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In article <1992Sep8.150801.3803@spcvxb.spc.edu> killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) writes:
>In article <MJKOBB.92Sep7214902@media-lab.media.mit.edu>, mjkobb@media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>> Greetings!
>>   1)  I'd like to get a matrix switcher, preferably one that can do
>> video and audio separately.
>> The big problem is that I'd really like one that has
>> S-video capability ... 
>All the high end consumer switchers on the market today have S-video jacks.

I am looking for something at the opposite end of the scale (sort of).
I'd like to buy a receiver/integrated amp/preamp with video switching
including S-Video inputs/outputs and (possibly) a reasonably good LC
filter built in (to transform composite to S-Video). But I don't want
Dolby Pro-Logic - I really just want something to which I can connect
my LD player, S-VHS tape deck and a TV, and use a single remote to 
select what I'm going to watch/hear. 
The Nakamichi Receiver 1 comes close to this, but doesn't have
S-Video capability.
Anything else?

Doug


Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: Image lowers prices on 400-500 titles to $19.98!
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 04:57:05 GMT

In article <Bu0LrM.MDE@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
>starr@dpe.enet.dec.com (Alan Starr) writes:
>
>> Also, Pioneer has just lowered the prices on some of their catalog, down to
>> $24.95-29.95. A sampling of those titles include Lawrence Of Arabia, Close
>> Encounters of the Third Kind, The Big Chill, Tootise, Dr. Strangelove,
>> About Last Night, Taxi Driver, Stand By Me, Absence of Malice, and Midnight 
>> Express.
>
>
>Five of those nine are also available from Voyager/Criterion.

Make that six out of ten.

                                            -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
From: award@farside.auspex.com (Andrew Ward)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Surround Sound Questions, Sony STR-AV 1020
Date: 9 Sep 92 21:11:02 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems


I have a JVC 6700, A Sony STR-AV 1020, Cambridge audio Ensemble
Speakers for the front and Radio Shaft Mimimus speakers for the rear
channel. 

I'm trying to use the internal speakers (line-in) on the TV for the center
channel since the Sony produces center channel non-amplified.

In a "surround sound" recorded tape (I.E. Hook, store-bought)
the center channel is VERY low (audio level) I am in dolby/surround 
ON, NOT SIMULATE, flat EQ. In fact it makes me think something
is WRONG.  But what could it be?


ANy ideas?

And why is there such a wide dynamic range between normal audio
level and surround effects? Regular voice seems so low, almost 
unintelligible, but when the effects come, put on your ear-muffs.

What should come out of the center channel outputs if the tape
is NOT in Surround sound?


Thanks.



Andrew Ward
Auspex Systems
Santa Clara, CA
From: lcc@po.CWRU.Edu (Lih C. Chen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Fuji Projection TV
Date: 5 Sep 1992 07:43:34 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: lcc@po.CWRU.Edu (Lih C. Chen)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


to all those rec.video readers out there, i would really like some
information on fuji projection tv's, or any kind of projection tv's

especially if you can tell me what you think of them, performance wise,
and also, if you can tell me what company i can call to get more information
on purchasing one...

thank you so very much,
lih

ps please reply in email...much appreciated.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wowoc@acs.ucalgary.ca (Witold Owoc)
Subject: Re: How accurate is your VCR's clock?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 19:24:23 GMT
Organization: The University of Calgary, AB, Canada

Sony SLV-R5 (S-VHS) Service Manual under the position "Clock Adjustment" says:
 ``The adjustment should not be performed except for the replacing
   of the microcomputer''

It is consistent with one of previous posters reporting that
Sony Service Centre refused to change factory settings.

Witold Owoc <wowoc@acs.ucalgary.ca>

#disclaimer "my.private.views"
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD-players with genlock and TBC?
Date: 9 Sep 92 20:13:19 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <Bu9vrF.Cz2@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
<> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<> Great!  What the Hell does a LD player need with a Gen Sync Out?
<
<Take for example the way HP uses LD players at trade shows...
<
<We have two players (LD-V4200s as I recall) and two copies of the same disc
<(usually custom produced for each event).  While one player is seeking,
<the other can be playing, and sometimes both are playing different sections
<simultaneously.
<
<When it comes time to switch the video displays between players, it no doubt
<helps to have them synchronized to eliminate picture roll and other glitches.

The interesting thing here is that GEN SYNC OUT is not required to do that.
If a SEG is used to select the video source, then the sync comes from the SEG.
As mentioned in another posting, if a vertical interval routing switcher is
used, then sync has to come from somewhere.
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From: damon@osf.org (Damon Poole)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Letterbox versus P&S
Date: 15 Sep 92 18:47:15 GMT
Reply-To: damon@nomad.osf.org
Distribution: usa
Organization: Open Software Foundation

In article <1992Sep14.191708.4057@amgen.com>, chriss@sam.amgen.com (Chris Silvester) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep9.131843.3787@exu.ericsson.se>, ebupaf@ebu.ericsson.se (Pat Fargo 6266) writes:
|> > 
|> about.  I believe LBX has been tried on both TV and VHS, and been unsuccesful.

It will probably never be succesfull on VHS. VHS is too low resolution for
LBX, and most people that just rent VHS will always say 'what is wrong with
my TV?'

LBX on TV is very common in Europe.

|> Since people who watch movies on LD are by far in the minority at this point,
|> it would be safe to say that most Home-Theatre movie watchers prefer/view P&S.
|> Since LD is a higher quality medium both in respect to video and audio, the
|> perception is that for video-philites, the only choice for true videophiles is
|> LBX.  But in reality, it's  just a matter of opinion...Now once widescreen TV's
|> /Monitors become popular, that will change...

What do you mean by this? I still don't want to watch 2.4:1 movies P&S to fit
16:9!!

|> 
|> In the meantime, people like you and me who want to rent/buy LD movies in P&S
|> will continue to have a difficult time of it, unless we start making more noise
|> than the other crew.  I have made some comments to this effect to my local LD
|> retailer/renters...
|> 
|> Just coming out in support...

Hmm. Coming out of the closet in 'support?' Are you sure you are posting
to the correct newsgroup?? :-) :-)

|> 
|> Chris S.
|> 

I for one, would prefer to see the LBX vs. P&S debate go away. It seems
senseless to debate opinions. Especially since this 'debate' repeats
almost word for word week in and week out. :-(

Please note that I only responded to the parts of your posting that did
not refer to opinions and that I did not flame you for preferring P&S. :-)

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