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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Appearance/Lighting of Star Trek:TNG
Date: 14 Apr 92 03:55:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.3250
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Apr10.205013.27021@vcd.hp.com> neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff) writes:
<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.

Looks great from where I sit.  Keep in mind that the show is edited in the
digital domain, making it real tough to lose image quality.
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From: reha@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Reha Elci)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Summary: STNG
Date: 10 Apr 92 23:16:33 GMT
Reply-To: reha@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Reha Elci)
Organization: Columbia University


Is it my imagination or is Star Trek NG's surround sound encoded really badly?
The center is quite low and the effects are way to high. I have usually have
to decrease the effects quite a bit before I can achieve a reasonable balance.
Up on the bridge, the rumble from the warp drives (I'm guessing here of course)
almost at the same volume with the center channel.

Does everyone think so as well?

Reha Elci
Email: elci@bugs.gs.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 16:32:01 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.

>We get PBS from Watertown NY (WNPE).  This is a tiny, very low buget station 
>that will probably never pony up enough money to by an MTS encoder.  FOX
>affiliate?  Not around here!

Here in Dallas, the FOX station (33) does not broadcast MTS.  The public
station, KERA, broadcasts MTS regularly, and even letterboxes a few movies.

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From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
Subject: Columbia LD Club
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 14:21:21 GMT

Well, I just got my intro shipment from Columbia House LaserDisc Club.
With some trepidation, I opened the box... With a big sigh of relief,
the shipment included all three Star Wars movies, just like I ordered.
The only "gotcha" was on the invoice: They charged me an extra $0.47 for
tax, over and above the $7.50 I sent them (which was the price quoted in
their ad).

On the subject of signup agreements, the "Own and laserdisc for just
$1 when a friend joins the club" deal included with my initial shipment
gets the new member 3 discs for $1 each with the option to get a fourth
disc for $14.95 which reduces the future purchase obligation by one
title BUT(!) the total obligation is 4 titles, not two. Why they have so
many combinations I have no idea - perhaps they figure they'll get lucky
a certain percentage of the time and sucker someone into the club with a
4 disc obligation. Who knows?

Anyway, just thought I'd add the data points for those readers who were
thinking of joing CHLDC but were having second thoughts due to the
reports of shipment screwups.

BTW, to those of you already in the club, do they ever accept orders
over the phone? When I was in some computer book club (also a "send in
the card or we'll send you our selection of the month" type of club) I
would call in to cancel the frequent backordered selections and at the
same time choose a new selection which was in stock. If CH will accept
phone orders, it seems like a good way to avoid the frustration of
frequent backorders.
From: Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Benna)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Can't decide: ONKYO TX-SV70PRO vs. DENON AVR-810
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:32:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

I've been trying to decide between the DENON AVR-810 and the ONKYO
TX-SV70PRO Pro-Logic/Receiver/Amplifiers but have been unable to find a
local store which has both and is set up for surround demos.  Has anyone
out there in netland been able to do an A-B test of these two units (or
their brothers)?  Any happy or unhappy owners out there of either unit?
I appreciate any feedback you can offer.

How do they compare as regular stereo amplifiers?
How do they compare as surround decoders? Is either one DSP based?
Does DSP pro-logic decoding really sound better than analog decoding?

Email or post as you see fit.


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          MindSpan Technologies Corp. - Video Game Design and Development
INTERNET: Mike_Benna@mindlink.bc.ca
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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Help! copy protection screwing up my tv
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 16:28:34 GMT

schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>In article <56747@cup.portal.com> bszeto@cup.portal.com (Bailey G Szeto) writes:
>>Normally this setup works great.. (the monitor acts as a super-sharp tv!).
>>I can watch regular tv okay, and tapes of things I recorded from tv. However,
>>some rented tapes will not work.  It seems to happen only on big production
>>movies.. The top 1/3 of my screen then gets shifted to the right. Can 
>>macrovision do this? Any suggestions?

>Macrovision can do this.
>Buy a copy of VIDEO REVIEW or VIDEO and check the ads in the back for black
>boxes. The "RXII Digital Stabilizer" works and costs less than $50. It's
>the one with the hookup diagram pasted on the top cover. Put it in the
>video line just before the monitor.
*----
Whether you want to spend an extra $ 50 is your own business.  But
be sure to demand a refund for every unwatchable tape you rent.  If
enough people complained, the video stores would refuse to buy
macrovision-encoded tapes.

As far as I'm concerned, any tape that doesn't play correctly on
an off-the-shelf VCR and TV is defective.
--
	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
	AT&TNET     217-244-6067
	Internet    berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
From: sondeen@isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Hi-Fi VCR questions, JVC HR-S4700U, Sony SLV585 and more
Date: 7 Apr 92 22:53:10 GMT
Reply-To: sondeen@marleen.isi.edu (Jeff Sondeen)
Distribution: usa
Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
Keywords: JVC Sony VCR Hi-Fi VHS S-VHS

Can anyone say if the JVC HR-S4700U Vcr has a simulcast mode in
addition to an MTS stereo mode (ie. the hi-fi tracks are in addition
to a MTS stereo audio tracks), to allow recording both the MTS stereo
that may be broadcast along with the video as well as separate (hi-fi
stereo) line input on the Hi-Fi tracks.  ((I noticed that the new
cheaper Hi-Fi decks often give you EITHER one input source OR the
other)).

Thanks,
/jeff
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/jeff

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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Help! copy protection screwing up my tv
Date: 7 Apr 92 01:25:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.3231
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <56747@cup.portal.com> bszeto@cup.portal.com (Bailey G Szeto) writes:
<Normally this setup works great.. (the monitor acts as a super-sharp tv!).
<I can watch regular tv okay, and tapes of things I recorded from tv. However,
<some rented tapes will not work.  It seems to happen only on big production
<movies.. The top 1/3 of my screen then gets shifted to the right. Can 
<macrovision do this? Any suggestions?

Yep, Macrovision is the culprit.  Get a Macrovision eliminator box.
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From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: CD rot
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:25:20 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11322
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

> Jinfu Chen writes:
> 
> Msg-ID: <58076029.1b2f0@digital.sps.mot.com>
> Posted: 7 Apr 92 23:01:08 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Motorola, LICD, SPS, Mesa, AZ
> 
> 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: 1 Apr 92 21:33:22 GMT
> Organization: Computer Support Corporation,  Dallas,Texas
> 
> 
>   Reprinted without permission from today's Dallas Morning News:
> 
>   -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [long article about CD rot recently discovered, etc., etc.]


Did you bother to check the date of this posting?
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From: JWEST@r3vm.dsd.trw.com (Judson West)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Columbia LD Club
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:47:47 GMT
Organization: TRW Space & Defense

In article <RJC.92Apr12142934@devo.unify.com>
rjc@devo.unify.com (Ronald Cole) writes:
 
>In article <1992Apr11.005918.2260@qiclab.scn.rain.com> drazil@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Devin Ben-Hur) writes:
>   I order from them over the phone all the time.  In fact, I've never
>   used the reply card.  I always just check NoSelection and return it
>   immediately, then call them up when I want to order a disk.
>
>Call them and have them put you on "positive" response.  You still get the
>card and glossies every month, you just don't have to waste a stamp to
>tell them you don't want the selection of the month.
>
>--
 
I came into this thread a little late, but are you saying that you can
call Columbia and tell them that you will always respond with "NoSelection"
so that you will never have to send in the reply card back? If that's true,
it's cool....
 
Thanks
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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Subject: Re: Future HDTV Digiital VCRs?
Organization: Software of the Mist
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 20:54:00 GMT

km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes:

>I haven't seen much discussion of this. Presuming that one of the
>digital HDTV systems now being tested prevails, what is the expectation
>for future high end consumer VCRs?

Not much in the near future.  All near-term commercial HDTV plans are
for broadcast.  I would expect fiber optic cables to be next, and any
kind of consumer playback/recording medium to be last.  The reason is
that digital HDTV, with video compression, still has a bandwidth on
the order of 20 Mbit/second!  It will be difficult to come up with a
cheap, consumer, recording medium that stores 9000 Mbytes per hour.
(And consider the number of hours in a typical video collection!)

Playback-only systems exist: HDTV laserdiscs.  They are not available
commercially, and last only 20 minutes per side.  (Ah, but what a
beautiful 20 minutes it is!)

One alternate approach to this problem is to allow the consumer to
control what appears on the fiber optic feed.  Instead of going to the
video store, you use a computer to request playback from the cable
company.  This is a market the phone companies and present CATV
companies are drooling over -- sort of a "networked video store".
 
 
Brian McElhinney		"Nuclear war would really set back cable."
mce@tc.fluke.com					--Ted Turner
From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: TR81 shortcomings
Date: 10 Apr 92 08:21:15 GMT
Organization: Enea Data AB

goldberg@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Mark Goldberg) writes:
- Sorry to bourst the bubble here, but Sony is now implementing RC-TC
- (rewritable consumer time code) on its camcorders.  The CCD-F801 is
- the first to have it.  The feature will probably permeate the line.

What's the price of this baby?

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From: ggiergiel@vmsa.oac.uci.edu
Subject: Re: TR81 shortcomings
Newsgroups: rec.video
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:40:04 GMT

>Of course has the US version of the TR81 also autoexposure and a backlight..
>which in my eyes is FAR superior to a simple backlight switch. So this is an
>advantage of the TR81 (IMHO) rather than a shortcoming.


Sorry but I have to disagree. There is a fundamental difference
between backlight mode (exposure tracks lighting at 2-3 stops higher
than normal) and the mode that is implemented on TR81 where exposure
is manually adjustable but independent of lighting conditions. 
They serve different purposes.

Jerzy Giergiel
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: rjlang@mirage.lerc.nasa.gov (Ray Lang)
Subject: 8mm Video Player/Recorder 
Reply-To: rjlang@mirage.lerc.nasa.gov
Organization: NASA - Lewis Research Center
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:44:31 GMT

After just purchasing an 8mm video Camcorder, I would like to buy a
player/recorder so I wouldn't have to hook it to the TV/VCR when
playing the tapes. Also, I could record to 8mm off of the TV. 
I would be looking for stereo and non-Hi8. I certainly don't see very
many of these on the market. I have only seen one made by Sony. Is 
there anyone out there who's shopped, and/or, bought one? I am 
interested in pricing information and sources for them. Thanks in 
advance.


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From: jwl@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (james.w.lee..iii)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:35:50 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T

In article <1992Apr14.192915.16009@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, rdominy@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert Dominy) writes:
> > In article <1992Apr10.231633.27528@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> reha@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Reha Elci) writes:
> > >
> > >Is it my imagination or is Star Trek NG's surround sound encoded really badly?
> > >The center is quite low and the effects are way to high. I have usually have
> > >to decrease the effects quite a bit before I can achieve a reasonable balance.
> > >[...]
> > >Does everyone think so as well?
> 
> Are you sure Star Trek NG is surround sound encoded?  I've never seen any
> evidence of it.
> 
> BOB


Right at the end of the credits is "something" about  suround sound encoding.
Look for it it's there. At the very end.
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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Cheap circuit to use up camcorder battery?
Date: 7 Apr 92 02:47:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: mthvax.rr2gsINNjkb
Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Distribution: na
Organization: NRK Clinic for habitual NetNews Abusers - Beltway Annex
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jvp@juliet.ll.mit.edu ( Jim Pieronek ) writes:


>Let's put this one outright now.  From the Gates Energy Products
>Sealed Rechargeable Batteries Application Manual, pages 47-48:

Are these nicad or lead-acid cells?  We use LOTS of Gates Energy Cells
at work (typically the 5 ah size, if I recall correctly) and these are
not nicads, instead they are lead-acid.

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From: mike@hyperion.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Dove)
Subject: Hi-8 tape and usage recommendations needed...
Reply-To: mike@hyperion.Berkeley.EDU (Mike Dove)
Organization: MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:03:20 GMT

I purchased a Ricoh R-88H (TR-81 oem) back in October for the new kid
that arrived in late October.  My typical mode of recording with the kid
is few minute snippets here and there, and leaving the tape in the camcorder
between filmings so that it is always quick to shoot something.  Well to
make a long story short, I picked up the camcorder to do some recording
a month ago or so (it had not been used in a couple weeks), and attempt to
record, and the hateful arrow came into the viewfinder (without the
condensation indicator) meaning something really bad is wrong, send in for
service.  So, I sent my unit down to Ricoh and just got it back this morning.
The note said that they cleaned some sticky substance off the video heads and
that the tape I was using might be to blame and not to insert that tape
again.

So this leads me to a few questions.  What could this sticky substance be?
Could it possibly be from the tape.  I am using the high end Sony Hi-8 tapes.
Like I said above, this tape has been left in the camcorder for a long
period of time as I have been adding to the tape.  The camcorder has not been
exposed to excessive heat or cold.  Do you have recommendations on which
Hi-8 tapes I should use?  Which Hi-8 head cleaner should be used and how
often.  Should I remove the tape from the camcorder when not in use?  Any
other pointers would be helpful.

I got the extended warranty for next to nothing when I bought this, so I
have 3 years of free warranty work, however I am not thrilled by the idea of
sending this in for frequent service if this is going to happen again.

Thanks in advance...

-- 
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MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc.		Phone: 408-734-8100 x313
255 Caspian Way, Sunnyvale, CA			  Fax: 408-734-8136
From: garyj@pyrtech.pyramid.com (Gary Johnson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Help converging projection TV
Keywords: RCA convergence projection
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:05:24 GMT
Distribution: usa


Well, I got a copy of "A Video Standard" LD and briefly scanned thru it
last night. 

One of the adjustments that is sorely needed is convergence. I did this 
once when the set, an RCA PFR-100, was new about ten years ago. There are 
about twenty or so adjustments on the convergence board. Pretty much, all
of them interact with each other. 


The controls are (from memory):

v height
v linearity
h size
h linearity
v skew
Note that there was no horizontal skew.
v ks (for keystone, I assume)
h ks
v bow
h bow

There is one set of controls for blue/red and a seperate set for green. 
This TV is a front projection unit with seperate red, blue and green tubes.

What is the perferred sequence of adjustment of these controls?

Another thing that I noticed is that when viewing the cross hatch pattern,
the blue gun's lines are noticably wider then the green or red guns. Each 
lens has a focus adjustment and I've tweeked them in already. There is a
total (all three tubes) focus adjustment that I've also adjusted for best
focus. 

Each tube has a screen voltage adjustment. Can I expect that control to 
be useful in focusing the blue gun? Any caveats on this adjustment?

Yes, I did attempt to get a service manual from RCA, but they are out of
print for this model. 


Thanks in advance for your help!

Gary Johnson
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kimnach@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH)
Subject:                        Sony EDV-9500 (ED-Beta VCR)
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center
Distribution: na
Date:  9 Apr 1992 09:46 EST  

  I am looking for a Sony EDV-9500 (or Canadian EDV-9300) Extended Definition
Beta VCR.  Although I would pay cash for it, I would prefer to trade one of my 
EDV-7500s (+ a cash difference, of course).  The 7500 that I would trade is one 
of three units that I own and it had been used only once.  A friend wanted to 
see just how good his 32" XBR picture could be.  So, instead of yanking one of 
the 7500s out of my cabinet, I decided to take the unopened one over my 
buddy's place.  The Demo tape was played and the unit reboxed.  (By the way, 
the picture on the big screen was astonishing--he kids me about being the 
last one alive who is devoted to Beta...but he had to admit it blows his 
"super" VeryHardtoSee picture away!  It's a shame that everyone couldn't 
have the opportunity to see ED-Beta....unfortunately, it's a "vicious"
--spelled "VHS"--world.)

  If you, or anyone that you may know of, doesn't require the 9x00's 
editing features, but has a library of ED tapes and would like to stay with 
THE BEST CONSUMER VTR format, please call me (216-433-8323) or e-mail 
response.

  For those not familiar with it, the 7500 has the following features:
      --500 lines of recordable resolution
      --Y/C and RCA video outputs (1 each, simultaneously driven)
      --Two audio outputs
      --Line 2 input on front panel
      --DIGITAL SPECIAL EFFECTS
          --freeze frame and 1/4x slow playback
          --Stop Motion with sound: 6-step speed control from 1/16sec. to 
            2sec intervals
          --Digital scan up to 60x normal speed
          --Digital recall of a stored frame
      --Flying erase head
      --Shuttle Edit control: allows precise edit in/out to be found 
        WITHOUT exiting record-pause mode (same as on the EDC-55 and EDW-
        10F camcorders).
      --Control-S in & out 
      --Synchro-Edit Switch to perform in master/slave editing mode 
        (automatically engages "edit" mode which turns off unnecessary 
         circuitry--maintains picture quality through multiple generations)

Just curious: does the Canadian 9300 RECORD in B1shb mode?

Thanks.
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