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From: rwittick@ibm.cl.msu.edu (Rwittick)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Criterion Collection question
Date: 6 Apr 92 11:38:27 GMT
Organization: MSU

In article <ktp7k3INNi43@news.bbn.com>, levin@star-trek.bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes:
> 
> 
> Add to the list FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (I think Criterion CAV) which
> has a running commentary by (I think) a critic and the cinematographer
> and director which was most informative.
> 
If you want this disc or one of the other Criterion Bond films
(Dr. No and Goldfinger) with the supplemental audio, you'd better buy
them soon.  Laser Disc Newsletter just reported that Criterion has had
to withdraw those discs because of problems one of the movie producer's
has with the audio commentary.  Criterion plans to reissue them on
CLV discs without the audio commentary.
From: jm602s1066@sycom.mi.org (James Mallory)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: negative remarks on TR-81?
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:08:24 GMT
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) writes:
[Babbling about alleged TR-81 faults]

>
>This seems to be true of many Sony units.  The TR5/7/81, V99, and GV8 all have
>this problem.  Their 8mm VCR's I have used (EV-C3, EV-S900, DT1) do _not_ have
>this problem - they clean have FF/REV/PAUSE.  My guess is Sony has decided not
>put the electronics in the hand held stuff to do this cleanly. 
>                                                                              
That is exactly it...it is a Camera not a VCR!  Hell the TR-81 has more
features than my 7 year old Hitachi VCR.  To add all those 'goodies' when have
a) increased the size of the camcorder, b) added to the price.  For a
handheld, palmcorder, whatever this is a great piece of equipment.  

-- C-UseNet V0.55c
            Jim Mallory, a CNE and a Randiod (What a Combination!)

  '...I wanted to have real conversations with people with bubbles on their
 heads...I want to sit next to Wookies...jawas...and all kinds of robots." --
   Carrie Fisher on "Star Wars"  (Even though I would of swore that she was
                           referring to the 'net!)
Xref: sparky rec.video:5976 rec.photo:6794
From: rchrist@uswnvg.UUCP (Ron Christian)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.photo
Subject: Re: Mail Order Rudeness from SMILE PHOTO, NYC.
Date: 7 Apr 92 17:03:50 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video
Organization: US West NewVector, Bellevue, WA

In article <kt2cirINNhar@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
>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.

Actually, that could very well be the case.  When I lived in the SF
bay area, my phone number was very similar to the San Francisco Chronicle
subscription department.  (The last two numbers were transposed.)  I
got calls regularly at 5:30 AM from people wanting to know where the hell
their paper was.  While the phone company and I went through the process
of haggling over who was going to pay to get the number changed, I had
to argue with the Chron's dyslexic customers.

It was amazing how many people just won't believe they reached the wrong
number.  They're all pumped up with righteous indignation and they want
to release it somehow.  The fact that they got some poor smuck out of bed
(my work hours at that time were 11 AM to 9 PM) didn't seem to phase most
of 'em.

I was on call 24 hours a day, so taking the phone off the hook was not an
option.  After awhile I stopped fighting it.  It was easier to simply
apologize, tell them their paper would be out momentarily, and go back to
sleep.  Not a prank, just a survival mechanism.

This really does sound like one of those cases.



				Ron
-- 
  uunet!uswnvg!rchrist or uswnvg!rchrist@uunet.uu.net

  Dictators free themselves by enslaving others.  They work not for
  your benefit, but their own.  (Charlie Chaplin, "The Little Dictator")
From: jayj@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Jay Johannes)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 15:07:57 GMT
Subject: Re: What's the deal with TRON on LD?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
Newsgroups: rec.video

In rec.video, rchrist@uswnvg.UUCP (Ron Christian) writes:

    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...


Laserland in Denver has a half dozen copies in stock (and for sale).

  Jay
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: il@bambam.u.washington.edu (Il Hwan Oh)
Subject: Re: Hi-Fi VCR questions, JVC HR-S4700U, Sony SLV585 and more
Keywords: JVC Sony VCR Hi-Fi VHS S-VHS
Reply-To: iho@cac.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington, Tacoma
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 22:34:15 GMT

mdd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (michael.d.derousse) writes:

> Anyway, assuming that this machine is as good as new,
> does anyone have any experience with the S4700 or
> JVC VCRs in general?  A friend of mine heard that there
> were problems with JVC VCRs in the Hi-Fi audio area.
> Is this true?

You must not have been reading this group for a very long time.  That
subject (Hi-Fi dropouts on JVC VCRs) has been discussed to death.  Mine
(HR-D970) has a problem.  I've vowed never to buy another JVC VCR again
as a result of it.  Here's the test.  Go to a video rental store and rent
a tape that's been viewed many times (I don't know how you'd go about
finding out how many times a tape's been viewed, but I'll bet a case
that looks beat-up has been viewed a lot) and play it in your machine.
If you see Hi-Fi dropout indicators anywhere in the movie, you've got
the infamous Hi-Fi dropout problem.

> By the way, I do have a JVC monitor
> which influenced my decision (slightly) since I could
> control the BASIC functions of the TV with the VCR's
> remote.

Most VCRs nowadays come with a remote that can controlj most major brands
of televisions.

-- 
Il Hwan Oh                    | "A university is a place where people pay
Computer Facilities Manager   | high prices for goods which they then
Univ. of Washington, Tacoma   | proceed to leave on the counter when
iho@cac.washington.edu        | they go out of the store." -- Loren Eisley
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: long-morrow@CS.YALE.EDU (H. Morrow Long)
Subject: Re: CD rot
Followup-To: rec.video
Keywords: April Fool's Joke?
Organization: Yale University, Department of Computer Science
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 20:26:13 GMT


In article <58076029.1b2f0@digital.sps.mot.com>, chen@digital.sps.mot.com (Jinfu Chen) writes:
|> I found this piece in rec.music.cd and thought readers in rec.audio/video may
|> be interested, especially those who engage in recent LP/CD wars :-)
|> 
|> Newsgroup: rec.music.cd
|> From: Larry Spence
|> Subject: CD rot
|> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 92 16:33:22 EST
|> Organization: Computer Support Corporation,  Dallas,Texas
|> 
|>   
|>   Reprinted without permission from today's Dallas Morning News:
|>   
|>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
|>   Sony Corporation and Phillips BV of the Netherlands issued a joint
|>   press release Tuesday in which they admitted that the compact disc
|>   format that they jointly invented ten years ago, has a fatal flaw:
|>   the discs are susceptible to a phenomenon dubbed "CD rot" by audio-
|>   philes.  A. Morita of Sony and M. Blaagerfeld of Phillips stated 

|>From: jpchou@camelot.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Chou)
|>Newsgroups: rec.video
|>Subject: Re: CD rot
|>Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 13:49:40 EDT
|>
|>Does anyone know if CD rot also applies to laserdisks?

I hope that everyone looked at the posting date on the original article
and read the keywords in the re-posting.  I especially liked the April 1
article in rec.video.releases on LD upgrade supplements to pan&scan
movies (it required 1 or 2 additional players and TVs to be placed on the
side of the pan&scan image to supply the missing side visual information -
as well as adding stereo sound to mono TVs by having each TV act as one
of the halves of a stereo setup).

In rec.music.cd several people took the article at face value until
the original author ( Larry Spence ) fessed up to creating the article
out of whole cloth (although CDs may still be found to have archival
problems at some point, that is neither proven nor disproven by the
industry to many people's satisfaction.  Accelerated aging tests
can only attempt to simulate the real process and effects of time).

					- Morrow
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From: jfriedl@tubby.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Jeffrey E. F. Friedl)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: 20,000 LEAGUES Letterboxed was Re: What's the deal with TRON on LD?
Date: 10 Apr 92 21:30:45 GMT
Reply-To: jfriedl@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon / Omron Corporation

boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (The fox so cunning and free) writes:
|> wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes...
|> 
|> } I checked my Japanese laserdisc catalog tonight and this catalog number
|> } IS NOT letterboxed.  It doesn't have the sideways "smiley face" kanji
|> } for Cinemascope        nor the other one        for "B-star"
|> }                   : /                      | :
|> }                    /                       |/
|> }                                            |__

|> The second one is the katakana "vi", and I assume it's intended to be
|> short for VistaVision ("vi-sta" rather than "B-star").

The character in Bill's catalog (and the 2nd one above) is definately BI,
but if I misread (or there was a typo) it certainly does make sense that
what I thought was ``BIISTA-SAIZU'' is really ``VISTA-SAIZU''.
If the character represented by the 2nd `I' in ``BIISTA'' was written in
a somewhat small font, it then becomes bound the the BI to creat the
sound VI (`vee'), and it then appears to represent ``Vista Size''.

So, it seems the free cunning fox has solved the mystery.
And you've all gotten a free Japanese lesson (-:

	*jeff*
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
Subject: Re: C.H. members please respond! (Was: Request for LD-player comments...)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:29:49 GMT


In article <1992Apr10.211342.27499@cco.caltech.edu> tll@cco.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster) writes:
>[Deleted stuff]
>>So, CH members, please report on what you've seen in the discs you've bought.
>
>The CH discs that I have so far are the three Star Wars movies.  
>Didn't notice any problems with any of them.

I, too, have the Star Wars trilogy from CH. No serious defects on the
order described erlier, but they are not perfect. I suspect a decent
cleaning will remove most of the "noise" in my case, so I'm not too
worried about it.

BTW, I was pleasantly surprised to find that side 3 of Jedi is CAV.

Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.production
From: bwe@navaho.uucp (25612-elliott)
Subject: Any Videonics Users Out There?
Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 20:35:33 GMT
Followup-To: rec.video.production
Keywords: Videonics


Hello,

I'd like to know how many Videonics users are out there?

I am and will be using the Pro upgrade if it ever gets here.
I would be interested to comments, problems, etc.

The consumer model even with the memory upgrade was slow and
the remote a pain to title with. 
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff)
Subject: Re: Appearance/Lighting of Star Trek:TNG
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:50:13 GMT

I too noticed a quality degredation in ST:TNG this season.  At first I
thought it was because we had moved to a new location and no longer got
good broadcast reception (which was true).  But then I got cable, and
I blamed the cable company.  But it seems that the commercials have better
video quality than the ST:TNG program itself.  I had lately been
blaming my local TV station, but mayber something else has changed.
I have no idea what might have changed.

Dave Neff
neff@hp-vcd
From: rwc@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bill Cherry)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: HELP: Replacing VCR Heads
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:16:20 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

My experience has been that after changing the upper cylinder assembly on any 
consumer VCR, the tape guide height must be adjusted to the new heads position.
I usually use both a factory alignment tape and a previously recorded tape to 
try to ensure good playback. Electrical as well as mechanical alignment
may be required.

Good Luck,

Bill Cherry
Hewlett Packard Co.
Fort Collins, CO
From: dkatz@QA1.PICA.ARMY.MIL ("David G. Katz")
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Carpool to Video Workshop
Date: 15 Apr 92 01:54:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Hi, I received this in the mail and thought I'd pass it on.  Sounds
interesting.  If anyone wants to carpool from northwest NJ, please
send me email.

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
From: 0004809744@MCIMAIL.COM (Jim Millick)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Perfect Vision subscriptions & LD storage units
Date: 16 Apr 92 00:27:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

|>Subject:  Subscriptions to Perfect Vision
|>I'd like to subscribe to The Perfect Vision.  Can you 
|>give me more info on it's [sic] publishing schedule[?]  
|>How many issues in a year?
  For 1992, we are a quarterly, four issues per year.  In 
1993, we're supposed to go to a bimonthly schedule, six 
issues a year.  I sure hope so, we have more copy than 
makes it into each issue, including mine :-(
BTW, Sea Cliff told me today that #14 will not be ready 
for SCES--I thought it was too good to be true.  It will 
probably show up in June.
|>  Can you give me a postal address for subscriptions.  
  The Perfect Vision
  2 Glen Avenue
  Sea Cliff, New York  11579
  Phone numbers are 1-800-222-3201/1-516-676-2830(Sea 
Cliff) and 1-800-825-0061 (subscription clearing house) 
New TPV subs are $22/yr., TAS $46/yr.
|>What about obtaining back issues.
  Call or write Sea Cliff.  I used to have a list of what 
was in the back issues, but I dumped it to make room on 
my HD, sorry.
|>Post this info to rec.video as many others would be 
interested.
  Here it is.
P.S.  To the netter looking for a good LD (or LP) storage 
system, I highly recommend Per Madsen Design in 
California, 1-415-928-4509.  Per makes superb storage 
units, and he is quite reasonable for what you get.  The 
units are made of solid oak, have *real* fasteners (none 
of that phillips screw crap.)  His catalog will tell you 
how many each of the units hold and what each weighs 
empty and full.  He includes an allen wrench to put them 
together (some are shipped flat), and even a allen bit 
for your power screwdriver--very well thought out.  I 
love mine.  Tell him TAS/TPV sent you.  I've had mine for 
years, with my expanding LD collection, I'll need a new 
module soon.  You can add what you need at any time.  He 
has units that will hold 45s, floppy discs, videotape, 
audio cassettes, CDs, you name it.  The catalog is free.
 
Jim Millick
Contributing Writer
The Perfect Vision/The Abso!ute Sound
4861036@mcimail.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dav@gtc.com (David L. Markowitz)
Subject: Re: Laser Disc Clubs?
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 20:40:02 GMT

rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:

>In rec.video, santos@athena.mit.edu (Carlos F Delossantos) writes:

>> Can someone please recommend some good discount LD clubs.
>> ...

>FAQ archive article LD#14 lists various mail order sources, including two
>clubs, once of which is CHLDC.  One of my correspondents contributed an
>update to the LD#14 data today, along with new CHLDC caveats...

>>     very attractive sign-up offer (3 titles for $2.50 each), but you commit
>>     to buying two (may now be four) more at "regular" (normal list >= $30)
>                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>                     definitely 4, now, though one of the four may be had for
>                     $15 if you order at sign up (leaving a 3x$30 obligation)

The "sign up a friend" brochure I got in Saturday's mail still lists
the old offer, and I've signed up two friends on it in the past month.
Maybe it is different in different parts of the country (or different
countries)?

Of course, this "deal" gives one the impression that their regular
shipping charge is $1.50/title.  It isn't.  It is $3.19 for the first
title and $1.99 for each additional shipped together.  This way they
generate more income.  So far as I can find this is also not documented
anywhere.

>>     prices over the next year.  Some higher priced titles may now be
>>     excluded from the $1.00/title deals.                  ^^^^^^^^^^
>      ^^^^^^^^
>      All "sets" (arbitrarily defined by Columbia) and movies over $79.95
>      are excluded. This includes ALIENS.

I called and asked if I could get Golden Age of the Looney Tunes for
$1.00+$1.50.  They said "No, that offer is limited to < $80.00."  They
said nothing about it being a "set".
-- 

	David L. Markowitz
	Solaris Systems Division - Genisco Technology Corporation
	dav@gtc.com
From: jfriedl+@cs.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Friedl)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: 20,000 LEAGUES Letterboxed
Date: 10 Apr 92 06:40:03 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon

wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
|> I checked my Japanese laserdisc catalog tonight and this catalog number
|> IS NOT letterboxed.  It doesn't have the sideways "smiley face" kanji
|> for Cinemascope nor the other one for "B-star"

|>                  : /                      | :
|>                   /                       |/
|>                                           |__

|> My apologies to real kanji, these are the best I could do with my
|> keyboard.  BTW the second symbol was translated by a (non-laserphile)
|> friend as "B-star" and I think it means "matted" or "letterbox size
|> smaller than Cinemascope, i.e. ~1.85" -Does anyone know for sure?

(I'm the non-laserphile that helped Bill)

For those Japanese laserphiles out there....

The above characters are (pretty good job Bill!) the katakana SHI
and BI respectively.

The listing in Bill's catalog had neither the katakana SHI (for SHINESUKO)
nor the katakana BI (for BISTA-SAIZU, which sounds like "B-star size").
Such a nonlisting means "regular" (pan & scan, I guess).

I asked a shop worker in Japan what BISTA-SAIZU meant, and he had no
clue.  But then, he had no clue what Cinimascope meant either, so I guess
I should have asked someone else.  If it doesn't get answered before
I return next month or so, I'll ask around again and report anything
interesting.

SHINESUKO wa eigo no "Cinimescope" desu, ne. BISTA- wa nee... nan deshyo ka?
SHINESUKO no imi to "futsu" no aida ja nai ka?
Zenzen wakaraheen... (-:

Hey Bill, let's see your renditions for what they use for Subtitles!
"Bilingual" should be pretty easy, though. (-:

	*jeff*
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Omron Corporation, Section RZE, Shimokaiinji, Nagaokakyo Kyoto 617, Japan
Visiting researcher to the Mach Project, Carnegie Mellon University
CMU phones: 412-268-8187 (office) 412-682-5645 (apartment)
From: sikorski@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Edward Sikorski)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: LaserDisc Rental Jersey/PA Area
Date: 9 Apr 92 16:37:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: Princeto.1992Apr9.163704.6618
Organization: Princeton University
Originator: news@ernie.Princeton.EDU


Is there a list or info of Rental Stores in the New Jersey/Pennsylvania
Area?

I have found some in North Jersey but need to know where I can rent in
South/Central Jersey and the Philly area. 

Any help is Appreciated...:)
From: jude@wk87.nas.nasa.gov (Jude George)
Subject: problem w/ turning on Sony XBR -- no picture
Organization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 92 01:11:56 GMT
Distribution: na


My 27" XBR sometimes comes up with sound but no picture -- I have to
power it off and on again, and usually get the picture the second time
around, within 5 or 6 seconds.  This has been happening more often
recently.  The set is about 1.5 years old.  Should I be worrying about
this?

advTHANKSance


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