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From: bj893@cleveland.freenet.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: What are best mail order video sources?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 11:13:33 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

I am looking to find the best source(s) for getting videos by mail order. 
At this particular time I am looking to buy a dance video which is proving
hard to find in my local area (Boston).  Could some helpful soul(s) point
me towards various mail order sources of videos. 

I am interested in any mail order source that carries videos that can be
hard to find in the local video store.  Please let me know the
speciality/focus of the various mail order sources.  I am also interested
in places that rent via mail order.    

If there is interest I can post a summary.

Thank you,

-bert
<bj893@cleveland.freenet.edu>



Newsgroups: rec.video
From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Re: This group is worthless (cable signal amplifiers)
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:28:38 GMT

In article <9212142249.AA27078@pserv.CFSMO.Honeywell.COM> Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com> writes:
> [...]
>I posted a couple weeks ago asking (in a much more polite tone than this
>is being written in) if anyone had any opinions on what are the better
>models of TV cable signal boosters are (and what models I should stay 
>away from.
>I got thirteen replies.  EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE was someone wanting the
>same information, so there does seem to be a demand, but not one
>bloody person took a moment to give an answer, so these 13 people
>[...]
>useful information.  Apparently, all the people who would post useful 
>information to rec.video got fed up and left (as perhaps should I).

There are many reasons why people fail to get responses to queries such
as yours.  

(1)  I suspect few people read ALL of the postings every day, so
you need something in the subject line to catch their eye (this time you
caught my eye but for the wrong reason).

(2)  It is often random chance whether your posting will be on a system
at a time when someone who has the answer is (a) reading it and (b) has
the time to answer.  So polite reposting will eventually catch the right
eye at the right time.

(3)  Yours is a Frequently Asked Question but I don't think anyone is 
keeping a current FAQ file on such topics (at least they haven't posted
the information recently).  So it is boring to answer it again and again
and again...

(4)  Remember this is a volunteer organization.  No one is paid to do your
bidding.  Getting angry is not a recommended way to get help.

(5)  This does not apply to you because I have seen your name in postings
in the past, but for others:  do not expect an answer if you pop on the
newsgroup and request help but have never bothered to take part and read
the news. (see [4] above).

(6)  You are free to leave at any time you wish.


-- 
'Fold, Spindle, Mutilate'                              #35/37 for BRAZIL

    William L.R. (Bill) Cruce       INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu 
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: pka@engin.umich.edu (Payman Khalili)
Subject: Sony 696 VCR Audio Problem
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 92 06:51:36 EST
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

HELP!  I've bought a Sony 696(HF?) VCR and it seems to be working fine --
EXCEPT...

When I play a stereo tape through my stereo (at a high volume), I notice 
some very annoying 'cracks' in the sound.  These cracks do not seem to be
related to the tape itself.  Just after hearing a crack, if I rewind and 
listen to the same bit of tape again, I don't hear the crack.
Thus, it seems like it's some sort of static accumulation.

This problem never occurs at low volumes (or if it does I don't notice it).
The prolem occurs with all the tapes I've tried The tapes are good recordings.

Does anyone have any suggestions on possible the sources of the problem and 
possible fixes?

Thanks!

-Payman
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: Judson West <jwest@r3vm.dsd.trw.com>
Subject: Re: Sony/Nintendo/Picture combo
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A75750E5D10249F5@jwest.dsd.trw.com>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 18 Dec 92 17:56:53 GMT
Organization: TRW Space & Electronics Group
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:56:55 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.160538.12041@news.cs.brandeis.edu> Susan Reynold,
reynold@binah.cc.brandeis.edu writes:
>I will be receiving a 27" Sony TV for Christmas. I have a
>Nintendo system that my children use and another gift the
>kids are supposedly getting is another kind of TV game 
>where what you draw comes out on the TV screen--I don't know
>what this is but someone said it was a Sony product.
>
>I know someone with a 27" Sony that said she now has a strip
>across the top of her screen from her Nintendo set.  
>
>Question: Should I be concerned about these toys burning images
>into my brand new TV?

My kids have been playing Sega for the past two years on a 20 Sony with
no ill effects.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: glk9533@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach)
Subject: Re: Video Review
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio
Distribution: na
Date: 16 Dec 1992 14:08 EST  

In article <4585@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes...
>In article <14DEC199215572204@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> kimnach@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (GREG KIMNACH) writes:
><In article <19921214.104230.953@almaden.ibm.com>, DEASTMAN@vnet.ibm.com (Don Eastman) writes...
><>In <14DEC199211462438@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov> GREG KIMNACH writes:
><>>It's back.....just got the annual buyer's guide.  Subscription: 8 issues
><>>per year at $15.97.
><>>
><> 
><>Is Video Review honoring subscriptions which were still active when they
><>ceased publication?  You did not mention if you purchased this at the
><>news-stand, or Video Review sent it to you because you were a former
><>subscriber.
><
><Sorry!  Yes I got it via mail on saturday, and no they are not honoring the 
><previously-paid subscriptions.  I guess that's because it's new ownership.
> 
>Read what they sent you again.  Read the mailing label.
>-- 
>      harvard\                          spool.cs.wisc.edu!astroatc!vidiot!brown
>Vidiot  ucbvax!uwvax..........!astroatc!vidiot!brown
>      rutgers/            INTERNET:vidiot!brown%astroatc.UUCP@spool.cs.wisc.edu
>                                   brown@wi.extrel.com

Alright already!:-)  I've received a lot of e-mail on this one.  It seems that I
didn't receive a letter.  Just a bill that has the short message that, if
I pay the $15.97 promptly, I get to keep the Buyer's Guide and won't miss any
of the upcoming issues.  Seemed to imply what I originally posted.

Greg

Posted-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:50:38 CST
Received-Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:49:54 CST
From: Otto Heuer #3 <ottoh3@cfsmo.honeywell.com>
Subject: This group is worthless (cable signal amplifiers)
To: rec.video
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 16:50:38 CST
Organization: Hack-Man's Hangout
X-Phone: (612) 785-4343
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Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25]
Newsgroups: rec.video


I can't believe that with 9.5 million people on the internet and 35,000
reading this group (*) that NO ONE even has a CLUE about boosting cable
signals.

I posted a couple weeks ago asking (in a much more polite tone than this
is being written in) if anyone had any opinions on what are the better
models of TV cable signal boosters are (and what models I should stay 
away from.

I got thirteen replies.  EVERY SINGLE RESPONSE was someone wanting the
same information, so there does seem to be a demand, but not one
bloody person took a moment to give an answer, so these 13 people
are going to have to remain in the dark as I apparently will have to.

I always figured that beneath the juvenile wars between laserdisc lovers,
HI-8 lovers, S-VHS lovers, etc, there was an occasional post with some 
useful information.  Apparently, all the people who would post useful 
information to rec.video got fed up and left (as perhaps should I).

Sigh.  And to the thirteen people who asked that I forward any info I get,
sorry to tell you--there is no Santa Claus (or if there is, he's too busy
in a flame-fest to help out).

(*) = Anyone know why this dropped so drastically from 70,000 subscribers
in August of 1992?  I find it hard to believe that half of the subscribers
left (though I can understand why).  Did they change the way they calculate
readership or something?

                --Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer
--
C, Pascal, Fortran, BASIC, Assembly Language, Snobol, Ada, APL, Prolog, LISP
Unix, MS-DOS, ProDOS       .  .   .   .... .  .   .   .   .   .   . Audio/Video
ottoh@cfsmo.honeywell.com  :..: .:.:. :    :.' .. :`.': .:.:. :`. :   Star Trek
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From: wiehn@evax.gdc.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Nostalgia Archive - Address?????
Date: 16 Dec 92 13:35:52 GMT
Organization: General DataComm, Middlebury CT

I need help in locating an address for a company called:

      "NOSTALGIA ARCHIVES"

They have just come out with videos of the Laurel and Hardy Silent films
and I desperatly want to order them.....

Does anyone know where they are???????

John Wiehn
EMAIL: WIEHN@EVAX.GDC.COM
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kimp@rpi.edu (Phil Kim)
Subject: re: "Larger" plastic sleeves for laserdisc
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 18:17:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.142644.15524@walter.bellcore.com> dyang@faline.bellcore.com (Danny Yang) writes:
>I just got some plastic outer sleeves for laserdisc from 01 Laser & Video.
>They fit nicely for single-disc titles, but it's quite an effert to "push"
>2-disc titles into it. Can someone recommend a place to get 'larger' ones.
>(larger enough to fit 2-disc titles, but not too loose, not too expensive)
>Thanks.

The one from Starship Enterprise seem to fit most laserdisc jackets/
cases.  Even some boxed titles, including Raging Bull from the 
Criterion Collection, seem to fit in nicely.
From: reed@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Sony CCD-TR31 8mm camcorder... Opinions
Date: 12 Dec 92 18:20:25 GMT
Reply-To: reed@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Robert Reed)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Hello netland.  I would like opinions on the Sony CCD-TR31 8mm
camcorder.  A relative is thinking about buying one and would like
opinions (and advice).

	    Thanks
		reed@oasys.dt.navy.mil
From: root@tsm.nsk.su (Vitenberg Eugene)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: S-VHS A/B Roll Editing System
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 06:53:13 +0700
Distribution: world
Organization: TV MIR
Reply-To: root@tsm.nsk.su

How to build A/B roll editing system from such S-VHS decks ?

1. Panasonic AG-7750E
2. Panasonic AG-7350E
3. Panasonic AG-7150E.

1. We want to purchase editing controller Panasonic AG-A800E to build
our editing system. Can it control Panasonic AG-7750E through 9-pin
remote and other two decks through 34-pin remotes simultaneously or
we must to purchase two optional 9-pin interface adapters
for AG-7350 and AG-7150 ?

2. What is better : to mix two sources by WJ-MX12 (mixer) or
by AB Roll switcher AG-SW800E + switcher remote controller AG-RM800E.
We think that AG-SW800E can be controlled from AG-A800E and AG-RM800E
to produce much more composite effects than WJ-MX12. Is it right ?


Thanks a lot.

Igor.V.Fominsky, TV Station "Mir",
  Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia,
  E-mail : berg@tsm.nsk.su


Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers,rec.arts.movies
From: smith@sctc.com (Rick Smith)
Subject: Re: Mail Order Video Sources. Recommendations Wanted
Organization: SCTC
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:05:51 GMT

noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:

>...  Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it at
>the local video cassette sales stores.  Thus, for this movie, as well as for
>more in the future, I'd like to get recommendations for mail/telephone-order
>places that sell video movies at reasonable prices, with good selection and
>quick service.

I've gotten several video catalogs over the past few years and _all_ of
them sell movies at list price. Plus a hefty shipping fee.

My local video store doesn't charge a shipping fee, and it can order
just about anything that's available. Probaby yours can, too.

rick.
From: kirk@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Kirk Lindstrom)
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 21:20:40 GMT
Subject: Flyback Transformer Noise???
Organization: Shredding the water of SF Bay, HP-OCD
Newsgroups: rec.video

A while back someone wrote about how to lower the noise from a TVs flyback
transformer.  Anyone do it and care to comment?  I believe the solution
was to put some RTV on the coils of the transformer.  How well did it work?

I'm interested because MY 26" Mitusbishi is humming like crazy in the high
frequencies and I'd like to save a trip to the repair shop and fix it myself.

Any help greatly appreciated!
Kirk out
=> "We are what we pretend to be."  -  Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jem@cup.hp.com (Jim McCauley)
Subject: Re: Who has best 20" TV sets?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:20:59 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Bob Hansen (rch@hpcuhe.cup.hp.com) wrote:

: I am looking to purchase a 19/20" TV set and am looking for the
: best set for the bucks.  I have read the recent consumers report
: and would like to stay around $300.

My family is very pleased with the 20" RCA set we bought about ten
months ago.  Ours is a stereo unit with monitor-type connections; it
cost us about $350 at the time and remains similarly priced now.  The
equivalent set with mono sound and no external audio connectors (but
apparently the same video chassis and picture tube) is going for about
$280 at most volume distributors (Circuit City, Goods Guys) here in
Santa Clara County in California.

Jim McCauley, Learning Products Engineer    **   I do not speak for   **
(that means that I write documentation)     ** Hewlett-Packard in any **
jem@cup.hp.com                              **   official capacity.   **

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bobdavis@scumbag.viewlogic.com (Bob Davis)
Subject: Re: THX Spectral Sound
Originator: bobdavis@scumbag
Keywords: THX
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:05:51 GMT


In article <1992Dec14.142205.8069@viewlogic.com>,
 bobdavis@scumbag.viewlogic.com (Bob Davis) -- that's me -- writes:
|>...
|> 
|> Theatres do often employ many surround channels per side, but these are
                                          ^--- this was supposed to be
                                               "speakers" not "channels"
|> merely putting out the same signal, for more uniformity through the
|> theatre.

Sorry for any confusion caused.
-- 
Bob Davis -- bobdavis@viewlogic.com
"VISUALIZE WHIRLED PEAS"
From: jdavidso@teknowledge.com (Jim Davidson)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Laser disk rentals in San Jose area?
Date: 18 Dec 92 22:21:41 GMT
Organization: Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation, Knowledge Systems Division
In-reply-to: myron@hpwrce.mayfield.hp.com's message of 15 Dec 92 23:26:48 GMT

To add to what has previously been entered:

-- The place on Lawrence (across from Fry's) is called Laser Warehouse.
It was started by someone who used to manage LaserLand in Cupertino.

-- Circular Motion (Cupertino) has dropped LD's.

-- There's a place in downtown Los Altos, on State St., whose name escapes me
right now.  They have a small but good collection of rental LD's.

-Jim



Newsgroups: rec.video
From: fineberg@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel A. Fineberg)
Subject: Re: Ken Cranes Best list of 1992
Organization: CSC, NASA Ames Research Center, NAS Division
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:30:42 GMT
Reply-To: fineberg@nas.nasa.gov

>From Ken Crane's Laser Event Vol. 1 #4

>The following is a list of top discs released in 1992. The list was
>complied based on a number of criteria: best selling discs,
>theatrically popular discs, noteworthy releases, re-releases or
>special editions, and some of our personal favorites. These titles
>represent the very best laser releases of 1992.
...
>Monty Python and the Holy Grail 1975, PG, Columbia TriStar

Does this imply that this has been released?  If it has, I would like to know.
If not, I think it pretty optimistic to expect this to be released before
the end of the year. Not to mention that it is pretty ridiculous to declare
a disc no one has seen to be one of the "best of the year."

Sam
From: waung@mpr.ca (William Waung)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Recommendation on Seattle WA Laser Disk stores
Date: 16 Dec 92 06:24:20 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Burnaby, B.C., Canada

A friend of mine will be heading to Seattle Wash. over the Christmas
holidays to hunt for some movies on Laser Disks. So I thought I would
help his search a bit by asking for advice on what stores to try in
the Seattle/Tacoma area. If you have experience with some stores
that have good selection, reliable, and inexpensive, please send me
some email about them. Similarly, if there are stores he should
avoid, I'm sure he would like to know about them too! 

Thanks in advance,
William Waung
From: wang@hpscit.sc.hp.com (Wang Li)
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:56:23 GMT
Subject: Re: Laser disk rentals in San Jose area?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Santa Clara, CA
Newsgroups: rec.video

In rec.video, unmesh@sgi.com (Unmesh Agarwala) writes:

> Santa's getting me a laserdisc player this year and I'm looking for
> places that rent LD titles in this area.  The one closest to me,
> Max's video, went out of business a few months back :-(

> Any place close to 101 between MountainView and San Jose would be great.

> Thanks,

> -Unmesh

Check your local Blockbuster Video.  The one in Westgate shopping center
near Saratoga has laser disc for rental at same price as tapes.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
Subject: Re: Video tape rewinders
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 02:11:52 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

In article <1h00irINN4h5@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> msiegall@OAVAX.CSUCHICO.EDU writes:
>Do outboard video tape rewinders really "extend the life of my VCR", or
>is the difference not even worth $8 (on sale at Payless)?

I once read a comment on CompuServe's consumer electronics forum by Gordon
McComb, who's written several VCR repair books. He said the only machines
he'd seen that had glazed idler wheels (i.e. the rubber gets shiny and
won't grip any more) were from users who did a lot of rewinding.

Many of the better machines now don't use rubber tires for the idler
mechanism ... they use nylon gears. So who knows...


-- 
_______________________________Mike Schuster________________________________
NY Pub. Access UNIX/Internet: schuster@panix.com | 70346.1745@CompuServe.COM
The Portal (R) System: schuster@shell.portal.com | MCI Mail,GEnie: MSCHUSTER
From: phil@dynamed.dynamedia.COM (Phil Menzies)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Sony Editing Controller for Sale
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:12:48 PST
Organization: DynaMedia
Reply-To: phil@dynamedia.COM
Distribution: us
X-Mailer: uAccess LITE - Macintosh Release: 1.6v1

Just in time for Christmas:
     Edit those videos that you have shot with your camcorder
so that you can show them to your friends without them falling
asleep.

     FOR SALE:  Sony RM-E100V    Video Editing Controller

 * Controls a VCR or camcorder (Sony, or any other providing
      a Control L connection) as a source, and a VCR or a
      Camcorder (Sony and some others, see below) as a recorder.
 * Performs "automatic assemble edits" by commanding the 
      source deck to position the videotape to the "cut-in"
      point while pausing the record deck. Then it "rolls"
      both tapes to cause the scene to be transferred from
      the source deck to the record deck. Finally, at the
      "cut-out" point it pauses the record deck and commands
      the sorce deck to reposition the tape to the next
      "cut-in" point for the next scene.
 * Memory for up to 8 scenes (cut-in and cut-out points) at
      a time. 
 * LCD display window to show the current command as well as
      the edit list memory.
 * Buttons on controller can be used to remotely control
      both connected video decks.
 * Connections to VCRs/Camcorders:
     Connects to source deck using CTRL L plug (Sony)
     Connects to record deck using CTRL L  (Sony)
            or CRTL S  (Sony)
            or Camera Remote (mini-jack)
            (NOTE: according to the manual this mini-jack
             connection can be used to control Panasonic VCRs
             that have "Camera Remote" jacks, and with JVC VCRs
             that have "Camera Pause jacks.
             It MAY be useable with other brands of decks that
             support a remote pause capability.)         
     The following may also be used to control the record
     deck, BUT require optional accessories from Sony:
             Camera Connector (14 pin, K-type)
             VCRs with infrared remote controls
 * NOTE: This controller does not connect to or process the
       video signal itself - you connect the video directly
       from the source deck to the record deck.

   Like new in original box

   Only $85.
   
   If you are in the S.F. Bay area, I may be able to drop
   it off to you. Otherwise, if you prepay I will pay for
   shipping, or if you prefer C.O.D., you pay for shipping.

Call me at (510) 814-8833  or reply by mail message

-------------------------------------------
Phil Menzies  -  DynaMedia, Alameda CA
Internet:        phil@dynamedia.COM
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi or Sony?
Organization: CS
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:08:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.204618.29998@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lmf1t@kronos.pharm.Virginia.EDU (Lindsay M. Faunt) writes:
>I am looking for a Hi-Fi VCR and am considering the Mitsubishi HS-U57
>and the Sony SLV-585.  I went to the local Holdren's last weekend and
>looked at the Mitsubishi, which I liked very much.  I've heard good 
>things about the Sony, but I'm not so familiar with its features.
>
>About the Mitsubishi:  I liked the fact that audio recording level
>is adjustable, and that there is "quasi-playback" of SVHS material.
>I disliked the fact that the date and time is stamped on the tape at
>the beginning of each recording session -- is this "feature" defeatable?

I love my Mits U82.  I would kill, rather than give it up.  It beats my
3 other VCR's all to pieces. (JVC, RCA, and some cheapo that had a busted
case, which I never use).
-- 
 Jaye Mathisen, COE Systems Manager                (406) 994-4780
 410 Roberts Hall,Dept. of Computer Science
 Montana State University,Bozeman MT 59717	osyjm@cs.montana.edu