HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Subject: Japanese Letterboxing: Myth?  (was: 20,000 LEAGUES Letterboxed)
Followup-To: rec.video.releases
Reply-To: moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer)
Organization: The John Fluke Mfg. Co.  /a.k.a. The Gizmonics Institute/
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 22:46:43 GMT

In <1992Apr10.144933.1157@uhura.neoucom.edu> wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
>BTW in probing through the catalog of Japanese laserdiscs I found that
>they really have very few letterboxed films.  Many many titles which
>are available here in some form of letterbox are not so available there.
>Another myth bites the big one.

Actually, that brings up an interesting topic.  Years ago, when letterboxing
in US-released laserdiscs was definitely the exception, Japanese imports
were the major source of letterbox prints of films.  It certainly seemed to
me, when I was just barely getting into laserdiscs, that the number of lbx
Japanese laserdiscs were numerous.

What's been interesting is this: as more and more new releases of laserdiscs
have been in the letterbox formats, I've noticed (from perusing the Laser
Disc Newsletter) that the Japanese-released laserdisc versions have been
released in Pan & Scan more and more often.  

As new US releases tend towards letterboxing, new Japanese releases shy away
from it.  Can anyone confirm or refute this observation; and if it is
accurate, give a reason for it?

                           "If you don't watch the violence, you'll never get
                            de-sensitized to it!"
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                 **>> Keep circulating the tapes <<**

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From: kenyee@ksr.com (Ken Yee)
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: t3
Date: 6 Apr 92 08:55:21 EDT
Organization: Kendall Square Research Corp.

Are there any 27-30" TV's you could hook a computer up to directly?
Something like a 386 running 640x480 or 320x200 VGA resolutions?
Some of the new TV's claim 700 lines resolution (like the 30" Toshiba)..
I know it's interlaced and all but such a huge screen should be able to
handle 640x480 with no problems if computer monitors can handle 1024x768
at 20"...

 ken  (kenyee@ksr.com)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Control L
From: ajit@actrix.gen.nz (Ajit Rasiah)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 10:55:08 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange


Can somebody please explain to me what "Local Application Control
Bus System" is on my Sony video camera. The manual does not
elaborate but refers to Control L or REMOTE.

Thanks in advance.
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
Subject: Re: Request for LD-player comments...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:21:22 GMT


In article <1992Apr8.052813.14201@unixg.ubc.ca> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
>Hi,
>  My dad's quite set on getting a laserdisc player. I've been following
>most of the discussion in this group. It seems to be almost a consensus that
>the -90 series from Pioneer has quite a bit of problems.

Speaking as the owner of a new CLD-990, I can say that I have observed
none of the -90 problems reported in this group on my player. Of course,
since I just got it a couple of weeks ago, I haven't had the chance to
play hundreds of discs on it yet...

FWIW, YADP.
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Storage Boxes for 8mm Tapes ???
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:24:40 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

> Does anyone know where I can obtain storage boxes/containers for 8mm
> video tapes?  (Something that holds 10-20 or more tapes at a time and is
> more sturdy than the cardboard boxes they ship in.)

I use the wooden type racks for audio compact cassettes.  Not the type with a
slot for each cassette but the type where you stand them on end across a shelf.
From: pirrung@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (G. Pirrung)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Re: Fantasia 50 days?
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:16:55 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


Bob Niland writes:

}}There's a Disney store in Denver (Cherry Creek Mall), company-owned as far
}}as I can tell, and as of 04 April, they still had Fantasia tapes on the
}}shelf.

I believe the "fifty" day availability referred to wholesale, not retail,
even if the retail *is* Disney owned.

unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu writes:

}}Isn't it 50 business days? So obviously weekends and holidays don't count..

OK, I counted the days on the calendar...maybe that's the ticket.......
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: rdominy@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert Dominy)
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 17:37:34 GMT

In article <1992Apr7.155359.8126@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>, robe@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (robert.g.egan) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr7.123419.7183@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan) writes:
> > 
> > In article <1992Apr3.204157.20452@unocal.com> gary@st.unocal.com (Gary Cattelino) writes:
> > >I was watching TV last night and noticed the message "Presented
> > >in Dobly Surround Sound" at the beginning of the program.
> > 
> > Speaking of Dolby Surround TV shows, did anyone watch "Mann and Machine"
> > on NBC Sunday night? Methinks the recording engineer who did Fantasia
> > also works for this show. ;-)
> I'm glad someone else noticed and posted about M and M because I thought
> my hardware was going crazy. It had to be the worst example of TV Dolby
> Surround so far. But I think the tape master was SNAFUed not the recording
> engineer.

Perhaps this was a local problem because I thought "Mann and Machine"
was one of the best broadcast surround programs I've heard so far
(except for "Northern Exposure").

Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.releases
From: long-morrow@CS.YALE.EDU (H. Morrow Long)
Subject: Re: Re: Fantasia 50 days?
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 14:06:12 GMT


Sight&Sound appears to be using scare tactics in their latest
catalog in an attempt to push LD collectors into buying yet
more Disney releases before they disappear forever.  On two
full pages of the April 92 catalog S&S lists a group
of titles that Disney has pulled from production (Lady and the
Tramp, etc.) talks about the Fantasia limited time availability
release and then ponders when it will no longer be possible to
obtain the 'Jungle Book' LD, etc.

Sounds like Disney and the industry saw how successful the
strategy of creating false scarcities was (in increasing both
volume and price).

					- Morrow
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From: jayj@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jay Johannes)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:44:46 GMT
Subject: Re: 20,000 LEAGUES Letterboxed was Re: What's the deal with TRON on LD?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: rec.video

In rec.video, boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free) writes:

    In article <2310053@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>, jayj@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jay Johannes) writes...

>} Laserland in Denver has a half dozen copies in stock (and for sale).
>
>Are you *sure* that it's the letterboxed edition?  A Japanese import
>pan-&-scan edition was widely (for an import) available for quite a while.

Apparantly it was the P&S.  It wasn't a disc I was interested in, so I
didn't look too closely.  Sorry, but not too sorry if I raised anyones
hopes. 

  Jay
From: tomj@pnet16.cts.com (Tom Jenkins)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: 32XBR50 Pix Tube Blurrs?
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:36:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: nctams1.1992Apr6.193603.19785
Organization: People-Net [pnet16], NCTAMS EASTPAC

We have (now had) a problem with our Sony.  Bought in June of 1991, over the
past few weeks, we noticed a blurring of the white portions of the pix but the
regular color was fine.

Called the service men up and they called the factory who recommended the
replacement of the Pix Tube!  

Was done so this weekend, and all is well.  Pretty good for a $1500 charge
covered under warrenty 'eh?

--Tom

UUCP: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj
ARPA: humu!nctams1!pnet16!tomj@nosc.mil
INET: tomj@pnet16.cts.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Summary: Pro-Logic Receiver wanted (help)
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 07:04:00 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.


Re: phono input -- don't forget that there are two sets of levels one can
have for cartridges.  Moving-magnet ones put out significantly more than
moving-coils ones.  More importantly, a receiver's phono input is going
to have RIAA equalization inline with it.  Recorded sound on LP's is
equalized by an RIAA-specified curve, jacking up the high end.  This
gets de-emphasized on playback by the preamp stage.  CD's mastered from
RIAA-equalized tapes are part of the reason why the lunatic fringe has
eschewed CD's as "harsh".
-- 


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From: rob@woodyw.Berkeley.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Cables
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:58:43 GMT
Reply-To: rob@woodyw.Berkeley.EDU ()
Organization: IBM, Austin

I would like to hear peoples opinions on video cables and their effect
on picture quality.

I plan on running a long cable (5 Meters (~15ft)) between my VCR and TV.
 I would
like opinions and recommendations on what to use.
From: pirrung@NADC.NADC.NAVY.MIL (G. Pirrung)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: NEW PIONEER BLASPHEMY!
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:23:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: NADC.9204131323.AA29311
Organization: The Internet


Referencing the letter about the Pioneer Logo at the beginning of each
side on Macbeth, consider the fact the if you are making a tape copy
(No one reading this would do such an illegal thing! yeah, sure... :-)  )
you don't have to worry azbout missing the beginning of the side
when editing onto tape.....
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ccw@prefect.uucp (26554-wood)
Subject: Re: Request for LD-player comments...
Reply-To: ccw@prefect.UUCP ()
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 15:22:51 GMT


>In article <1992Apr8.052813.14201@unixg.ubc.ca> george@unixg.ubc.ca (George chow) writes:
>>Hi,
>>  My dad's quite set on getting a laserdisc player. I've been following
>>most of the discussion in this group. It seems to be almost a consensus that
>>the -90 series from Pioneer has quite a bit of problems.

In article <1992Apr8.142122.1612@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan) writes:
>Speaking as the owner of a new CLD-990, I can say that I have observed
>none of the -90 problems reported in this group on my player. Of course,
>since I just got it a couple of weeks ago, I haven't had the chance to
>play hundreds of discs on it yet...

I bought a Pioneer 3090 just before the latest round of griping.  No
problems with it.  No black lines, only occasional white lines, on the
five titles I own.  I'll be getting four more from Columbia House real
soon now.  I don't mind tthe way it works as a CD player, either (I've
always picked CDs up from the player by sticking my pinkie into the hole
in the middle, and bending it).  I love the digital effects (I only have
one CAV disk, side 3 of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; it's
letterboxed.) and the two-sided play.  I think there were some bugs with
the machine in early production units, but I haven't seen any in mine.

Chris


Chris Wood     Bellcore     ...!bellcore!prefect!ccw
                         or ccw@prefect.cc.bellcore.com
From: rchrist@uswnvg.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: What's the deal with TRON on LD?
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:47:37 GMT
Organization: US West NewVector, Bellevue, WA

In article <34571@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free) writes:
>(It was said that a letterboxed edition of 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
>was released at about the same time, but S&S couldn't get any copies, and
>I know of no one who actually has a copy, so as far as I know, it was
>only a rumor.)

No, I actually saw the letterbox japanese import of "20,000 leagues under
the sea" on the shelf at the Bellevue, Washington Silver Platters late
last year.  Unfortunately, it was not for sale...


				Ron
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Re: CD rot -- who gives a daRn?
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 07:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.142842.11258@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
> In article <1992Apr9.134324.4520@primerd.prime.com>, J.Cook@ENS.Prime.COM (Jim Cook) writes:
> > 
> > Whether you believe this was an April 1 joke or not, the possibility with 
> > problems with the longitivity of CD's exists.
>
> Does anyone out there actually have a CD which lasted for many years and then
> started showings signs of this rot?  I've heard reports of CDs and laser
> discs that showed signs of it within a few months, but that was due to
> manufacturing defects and doesn't reflect what will happen to good LD/CDs.
> If no one can produce any real evidence of it, then this whole issue is a
> moot point.

I believe there have been some serious problems with the "Flashpoint"
soundtrack CD. Apparently the ink used for the design on the CD reacts with
the plastic and eventually gets down to the metal data surface, rendering the
CD unusable. This happened to a good number of copies (though not all), and it
takes a variable amount of time for the damage to occur. I think there are
still some copies that are just starting to turn up rotted after being fine
for several years, and there are probably many copies that will never go bad.

Of course this IS a manufacturing defect rather than a fault in the CD
medium, and I don't actually have one of these discs myself.

Laserdiscs sometimes rot in the same manner -- something about the glue
causes the metal to corrode/oxidize after it's been sitting on your shelf
a year or two. I've had this happen to four different 3M pressings over the
last two years.

                                      -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
From: dav@gtc.com (David L. Markowitz)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: C.H. members please respond! (Was: Request for LD-player comments...)
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:30:10 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.

In article <1992Apr10.145953.12262@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
> 
> [deleted]
> 
> So, CH members, please report on what you've seen in the discs you've bought.

So far I have been very satisfied (except for the "bait and switch"
tactics on the cost of shipping&handling).

The other day, I ordered a disc, which, after receiving it but not
opening it, I decided I didn't want.  I called to ask if I could return
it.  Not only did they say "yes", they mailed me a postage-paid return
address slip!  I would not have complained if I had had to pay return
postage, or even postage both ways, since it was my mistake, not
theirs!

-- 

	David L. Markowitz
	Solaris Systems Division - Genisco Technology Corporation
	dav@gtc.com
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From: kho@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kelvin.ho)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: UHF/Video to RGB. Is it possible ?
Summary: What does it mean?
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:23:48 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <47790005@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, rkarlqu@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Rick Karlquist) writes:
> NTSC to RGB converters are available from:
> 
> Harmonic Research
> 193 Villanova Drive
> Paramus, NJ 07652
> (201)-652-3277
> Attn:  James W. Harrigfeld
> 

Does it mean that, with these kits, I can use my PC monitor to view
TV/VCR?
If so, is PC monitor better than regular TV? Seems that monitor is higher
priced than regular TV.
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: SONY TR 91 Camcorder  ?
Date: 7 Apr 92 06:20:13 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

> Also, there appear to be clones of the TR81 from Yashica and Ricoh.
> What does one sacrifice by purchasing these cheaper copies, apart from
> not getting the Sony name ?

They are the same as the Sony unit.  Ricoh gives you 1 year part and labor.  
Sony is only 90 days on labor.  Sony will now charge you $150 just to tell what 
is wrong after 90 days.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
Subject: Zenith PZ-1 Cable systems and descramblers
Originator: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 20:11:32 GMT

My standard cable tv descrambler is a Zenith PZ-1.  I would like to
replace this with my own decoder, but none of the places listed in the
back of Radio Electronics sell a replacement decoder.  One company
that sells kits tells me that the "universal descrambler" described
in the May 1990 article will work.

Questions:
  1) Does anyone know of a nice (ie, tuner/remote/etc...) descrambler
     that works with this system?
  2) Does anyone have any experience with the "Universal Descrambler"?
     The article says that the sync must be manually adjusted.  Does it
     have to be done before every viewing?  Will it sometimes lose
     sync and have to be readjusted *during* a program? This seems like
     more trouble than it's worth.

disclaimer:  I have absolutely no intention of descrambling a channel I 
  don't pay for.  

  Thanks-
    Tom
-- 
Tom Johnson             "I put this moment.............................here
tj@cs.ucla.edu           I put this moment......................here
                         I put this moment--
                                              Over here!"        (Kate)
From: dkatz@QA1.PICA.ARMY.MIL ("David G. Katz")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Video Workshop
Date: 7 Apr 92 13:56:20 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Hi, I received this in the mail and thought I'd pass it on.  Sounds
interesting.

FIRST ANNUAL NORTH JERSEY VIDEOGRAPHERS WORKSHOP
***********************************************

DATE: Sunday April 26, 1992
TIME: Doors open at noon, program starts promptly at 1:OO
PLACE: Sheraton Heights Hotel, 650 Terrace Ave. & Rt. 17, Hasbrouck Heights,
NJ  (between Paramus shopping malls and Giants Stadium) Hotel # 201-288-6100

This regional workshop is open to all professional videographers in NJ, NY,
CT, and surrounding areas.  The afternoon's activities will be educationally
oriented and aimed at the medium-to-higher caliber event videographer.  Some
topics will be of interest to video entrepeneurs and indrustrial cameramen.
Absorb hundreds of tips and pointers, with dozens of video segments on:


* Elements of high-impact videography
* 30 tips for successful wedding video production
* NAB new product report - for the event and industrial producer
* 10 trends in wedding videography for 1992 - results of a recent survey
* American Videographers Network - Collective marketing strategies
* Telephone skills/sales techniques to increase your booking ratio
* The Digital Mixer guru discusses the new Panasonic MX-50
* Information and samples of Wedding Videography Today magazine
* "Cashing in" on what brides want - without going broke
* Lighting comparison - Porta-Lite II vs Lowel Pro-Light, report and demo
* Documentary-style interviewing - live setup and tape samples
* Info on the Second Annual Wedding Video Expo - July, 1992
* Excerpts from nationally acclaimed videos
* Q & A session, networking and more!

The major presentors are:

JOHN COOKSEY, of Elite Video Production, Greenwich, CT is the producer
of the acclaimed Digital Mixer Companion tapes (AVE-5, MX-12), an
experienced video instructor, and speaker at last year's Wedding Video Expo. 

BILL KRONEMYER is President of the North Jersey Videographers Association
(NJVA), the Video Insider columnist for Wedding Videography Today Magazine,
and a video instructor at Ford Motor Company.

COST for the Workshop is $35 for payment received by April 20.
NJVA and LIVA members cost is $30 for payment received by April 20.
Anyone registering AFTER APRIL 20, COST IS $45.

For information or registration, call 201-445-1919 or FAX 201-445-2160.
Or, send a check made out to "NJVA" to Video Workshop, 280 East Glen Ave.
Ridgewood, NJ 07450
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From: andrew@werdna.uucp (Andrew Lindh)
Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cheap circuit to use up camcorder battery?
Date: 7 Apr 92 23:44:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: werdna.218-PCNews-125beta
Organization: My Own Computer

For 12V systems I just use the search light from my Jeep. At about
10Amps or so the battery is done in a few minutes.


----
Andrew Lindh
lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu       lindh@hartford.bitnet
andrew@werdna.uucp              lindh@uhasun.uucp
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ka1gt@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (robert.m.atkins)
Subject: Re: Mail Order Rudeness from SMILE PHOTO, NYC.
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 17:58:03 GMT

In article <2061@uswnvg.UUCP>, rchrist@uswnvg.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:
> In article <kt2cirINNhar@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:

re: SMILE hanging up on a caller

> >Here's a theory:  Suppose you have a wrong number.  There could be
> >some poor sap out there whose phone # is one digit away from
> >Smile Photo.  If he's really sick of wrong numbers, he might
> >start pulling pranks like this.
> 
> 
> This really does sound like one of those cases.
> 

I think you are being much too charitable. I would not be at all suprised
if SMILE really did hang up. Before I learned better, CAMBRIDGE hung up
on me many times when I tried to ask a question. Sometimes they hung up
on me when I declined to give them my credit card number before I placed
my order (what's your card number was the first thing they asked when they
answered the phone). Despite their large ads, Cambridge is (or was a year or
so ago) a fairly grubby, hole-in-the-wall type store. They were bad enough
to deal with in person, impossible over the phone. They even hung up on their
non-800 line. The only NYC store that has not given me grief has been B&H
Photo. They screw things up on occasion, but they have a toll free customer
service line with real, polite (by NYC standards) operators on the other end.
Note that SMILE is an anagram of SLIME. This of course may have no
significance.....

 

Newsgroups: rec.video.releases