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From: kevin@simd.Stanford.EDU ()
Subject: Columbia LaserDisc Club Offers---Still Two in Mailer
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 03:13:24 GMT


The offer I just received in my monthly package reads as follows:

	Join theColumbia House Laserdisc Club through your friend who
	is already a member, and get any 3 discs [in the mailer] for just
	$1 each plus $1.50 shipping and handling.  (Sets may not be selected.)

	In exchange, you agree to buy TWO more discs in the nxt year, at
	regular Club prices (currently starting as low as $29.95, plus
	shipping and handling)---and you may cancel membership at any time
	after doing so.

Admittedly, "your friend" gets his $1 laserdisc too, but this deal still has
only two purchases required.  I've gotten these in every packet so far and
they are always only requiring two purchases.

  -- Kevin
--
kevin@umunhum.Stanford.EDU
kevinw@leland.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Subject: C.H. members please respond! (Was: Request for LD-player comments...)
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 14:59:53 GMT

In article <1992Apr9.152251.673@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, ccw@prefect.uucp (26554-wood) writes:
> 
> 
> 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.

Did all the discs you own come from Columbia House?

I just asked a question about a "white" line defect that I saw in Return
of the Jedi.  What I didn't say is that I got it, along with the other
Star Wars discs, from Columbia House.  Several replies said that this type
of defect is pretty rare and yet all of your CH discs have it and so does
the one disc I've inspected that I got from them (haven't had time to check
the others yet, though.)

I joined CH with some hesitation since I wondered how they make there money
and even posted a message expressing my hesitation with them, but I got
so many replies saying how good they are that I decided to give them a try.
Does everyone else who deals with CH have a lot of discs with white line
defects?  It may be the case that they make their money by purchasing discs
from manufacturers that don't pass the quality control tests, but which
still play.  However, what I'd really like to hear, because the Star Wars
discs are so expensive to get through other mail order places, is that this
is not the case and in fact your five discs and my one are just flukes.  On
the other hand, if they are representative of CH discs, then I want to get
out of the club while I still have the choice.

So, CH members, please report on what you've seen in the discs you've bought.

Steve
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tomcat@leland.Stanford.EDU (tom spearman)
Subject: VCR FOR SALE
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 20:36:17 GMT

I have a 5-year-old hitachi VCR for sale.  It has a 10-key wireless
remote and is in fine condition.  I had $100 worth of work done on
it one year ago and it is supposedly as good as new.  $100 or best
offer.

Tom
tomcat@leland.stanford.edu
From: lchiu@ocf.berkeley.edu (Lawrence Chiu)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Help, need device to insert sync signal
Date: 7 Apr 1992 07:22:04 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

I have a video source that has no sync (neither horizontal nor vertical).
On most TV's, the picture rolls.  Is there a device to insert a sync so 
that this will not happen?  I mean, besides a time-base corrector.  No
than a couple hundred dollars.

Thank you,
Lawrence
From: jm602s1066@sycom.mi.org (James Mallory)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Laser disc defect question
Date: 10 Apr 92 22:10:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Michigan Information eXchange

jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
>I looked at Bob Nilands article number 17 on laser disc defects, but I'm still
>not sure if what I'm seeing in my brand new copy of the letterboxed Return
>of the Jedi is a disc defect or something else.  I was scanning through it
>to see if it was ok and most of the disc is immaculate, but I did find one
>place where several small white horizontal lines appear and scroll up the
>screen.  It lasts about one second or so and then dissapears.  Article 17
>says that scrolling white lines on CLV discs may indicate a disc defect, but
>then it also says that most scrolling lines are the result of debris on the
>disc that can be removed.  I don't see anything on the disc itself.  I should
>point out that the problem is not horrible, but it is an annoyance to find
>that a brand new disc may have a defect.  How commonly do these white line
>defects occur on laser discs?  Should I expect to see one or two such
>problems on every disc I buy?  Should I return the disc (i.e. if I do can
>I expect to get one in return that does not have any visible defects?)

Are you trying to tell me that on a 2 hr+ movie...you have about 1 second of
several small white lines on the screen?  I could answer this simply...


Nothing's Perfect!

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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: tmkk@uiuc.edu (K. Khan)
Subject: Re: Laser Disc Clubs?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:00:13 GMT


In article <7970832@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>
>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...
>____________________________________________________________________________
>>     (800) 538-2233
>Also, (800) 457-0866
>
>>     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)

I beg to differ. Every CHLDC ad I have seen to date, including those in
current issues of magazines such as Video and Video Shopper, specify the
"2 LDs in 1 year" deal. Not only that, but I called CHLDC directly, and
they sent me an application form which also specifies 2 LD/1 year. This
was within the last two weeks, so if there has been a change, it was
REALLY recent, and I managed to sign up just in time!

I strongly suspect that there are different "versions" of the sign-up
offer, one of which may require 4 LDs. I have noticed slight differences in
the CHLDC ads from time to time and from magazine to magazine.


JADP (Just Another Data Point), YMMV
From: davest@sequent.com (David C. Stewart)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Sony EXR remote code for Pioneer?
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:26:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Apr7.002657.29428
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.


	[Sorry for the report if you have seen this.  I got no response
	from this and couldn't believe it.]

        I have a Sony 27EXR25 which has a universal remote control and
includes a list of remote control codes for various manufacturers'
equipment.

        However, I also have a Pioneer CLD-980, and Pioneer is not
one of the manufacturers listed in the table.  Does any one know the
appropriate two digit code which will control Pioneer equipment?
tia --

-- 
David C. Stewart                       	uunet!sequent!davest
Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.		davest@sequent.com
From: rdemarti@PICA.ARMY.MIL (Ralph DeMartino, CCAC-LAD)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Do Video Tapes Recover?
Date: 10 Apr 92 13:50:35 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet


	I had an unfortunate thing happen to my video library.  While away
on vacation, the forced hot air heating thermostat got stuck full on for
about 14 days.  The house inside temperature was hot enough to melt candles,
blow up plastic soda bottles like ballons and shrink all the wood in the
house by as much as a 1/2 inch in some places.  Needless to say, what a mess.
I estimate the house reached 130 deg F in some places!
	Now for what happened to the tapes.  If you open the protective
cover on the tape case, the VHS tape now has a slight concave curl to it
(when looking accross the tape from one support/slide dowel toward the other).
Upon playing these damaged tapes, the tracking control must be adjusted all
the way to the right or left.  Before the accident, the center detent on
this this tracking control was used on playback.  The picture is watchable,
but not quite right.  SVHS is the same.  The 8 MM tapes have a far worse
concave curl, and when played back, the top edge of the picture has tilted
distortion from the top of the screen to about 2 inches down.  Since there
is no tracking control, I cannot adjust this distortion out of the playback.
	The excessive heat and dry air (the humidifier was off during this 
miss hap) dryed something out of the tapes, maybe just water.  Does anyone
know what the tape chemistry is?  Will these tapes rehydrate over time?  Or
has some plasticizer evaporated out for good?  I noticed that if you exhale
on the curled tape it flattens out for a few seconds.  Any similiar
experiences and working solutions would be appreciated.  Thank God I didn't
have $5000 worth of LDs up there in the living room.

	Warning, after having the electric and gas company check things out,
they said to never us microprocessor controled thermostats with the older AC
low voltage series controled heaters.  Apperantly the Electric utility was
playing with my outside electric meter and some type of interuption and
the  resultant current surges got the electronic thermostat very upset.  
	The gas company said the heating unit only has an over temperature
safety of 200 deg F to protect the heat box from melting, but no house
overheat safety.
	The only suggestion I got for installing a safety was to stick with
the old mercury bimetalic thermostats and install 2 in series setting one
at the max temperature I would ever want and putting a lock box over it, while
using the other thermostat as my normal adjustment one.

	I have yet to see if I can make a claim for damages on my homeowners
policy or with the electric company.  I'll let you know what happens with the
tapes, about 500 of them.

	Some good notes, my pets (seven turtles and a cat) were left with
my mother in law, thank God.  And Sony said (they manufactured the 8 MM P6
120 HG tapes) they would try to save my family recordings made on their
tapes at no charge.

                  					Rdemarti@pica.army.mil
From: szhang@sbgrad1.cs.sunysb.edu (ShiPei Zhang)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Some questions on VCR features
Date: 7 Apr 92 14:40:24 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.1992Apr7.144024.3606
Distribution: na
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <mrpjlah@lynx.unm.edu> synth@dreamtime.unm.edu (Synth F. Oberheim) writes:
>I'm presently hunting for an SVHS deck for dubbing and editing, and have
>scratched my head over a couple of features I've stumbled across.  Any 
>help here would be most appreciated:
>...
>3. Auto Head Cleaner
>	
>	Is this an important feature, or a gimmick?

How does an auto head cleaner work?
From: bill@thd.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Future HDTV Digiital VCRs?
Date: 17 Apr 92 19:14:56 GMT
Organization: Tektronix TV Products

In article <1992Apr16.025049.10023@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> an314@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Golobic) writes:
>In a previous article, mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) says:
>>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!)
>
>as we discussed in my telecom class last week, an hdtv vcr would
>run about $40,000, and have little storage capability.

From EE TImes, Apr. 13, 1992, pp. 1:

"The nascent HDTV market market will receive a boost here today at the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) annual meeting, where
General Instrument Corp. will announce the first all-digital consumer
VCR...

The 8-mm VCR ... is built around GI's Digicipher technology, the basis
of the company's HDTV proposal to the [FCC] for a US terrestrial
broadcast standard.  Prototypes of the VCR are expected to be shown ...
at the NAB show.

While several TV makers have already announced plans to produce digital
HDTV sets, production of digital VCRs is expected to be the key to
development of the HDTV market, because home taping of movies and
videos will be a major inducement to produce HDTV programming."

-- 
Bill McFadden    Tektronix, Inc.  P.O. Box 500  MS 58-639  Beaverton, OR  97077
bill@tv.tv.tek.com, ...!tektronix!tv.tv.tek.com!bill      Phone: (503) 627-6920
"How can I prove I am not crazy to people who are?"
From: lchiu@ocf.berkeley.edu (Lawrence Chiu)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: CLD-3080 laserdisc player by Pioneer for sale
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:37:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: agate.rrjf5INN959
Distribution: ba
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: bigbang.berkeley.edu

Selling my CLD-3080 so I can buy the CLD-95 Elite!  Will ONLY sell it to
someone in the Bay Area (hence I am limiting the distribution of this msg
to "ba") so the purchaser can come over and see that it works perfectly.
$600.  The retail was $1400, $400 more than the retail price of the 3090.
Has Dynamic-Extension, flip-play, file memory, separated power supplies
for audio/video, 18 bit 8x oversampling twin DAC's.  Pioneer's top consumer
(non Elite) CLD player from two years ago, and without ANY OF THE 3090 FLAWS!
I paid $1000, but it's yours for $600.

Lawrence
From: chan@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Chan Benson)
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 20:46:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Re: SONY TR 91 Camcorder  ?close
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
Newsgroups: rec.video

>  >    The Ricoh R88-H has different optics than the Sony TR-81.
>  >
>  >    			-- Chan
> 
>  Where did you read that?  Every report I have seen said that the units
>  were identical including optics.

Well the salesperson told me that. I suppose he could've been lying, but
I've also seen print ads to that effect.

I really don't care. I bought the Ricoh cause for $75 more than the Sony
I got a one-year warantee plus 5 more years on all the major parts.

			-- Chan
From: pradeep@watson.ibm.com (Pradeep Dubey)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: summarizing response to query about multi-system VCR
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: pradeep@watson.ibm.com (Pradeep Dubey)
Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM

Hello,
I also received quite a few mails about multi-system VCRs.
At the request of some, I am summarizing the responses.
Bottom line is that Multi-system VCRs are expensive
and typical ones (ones in 400-500$ range) CANNOT take
a PAL (NTSC) audio-video input and record in NTSC (PAL)
format on a tape. 
The ones that can do such conversion are much more expensive.
Panasonic AG-W1 (World Traveler) being one in $2000 range.
It seems one can buy two VCR and TVs (one PAL and one NTSC) for
the price of one mult-system VCR/TV with similar features!!
Pradeep
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Date: 15 Apr 92 03:14:43 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

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.
<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?

Nope, sounds great to me.  Are you using a Pro-logic decoder?
-- 
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From: jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Surround Sound on TV Broadcasts
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:25:49 EDT
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

robe@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (robert.g.egan) writes:
> 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.

All it takes is for someone to decide to throw a little reverb on the VTR's
output at the network end of things and the whole surround signal's screwed.

This happens quite often with the local CBS affiliate.  Some surround programs
(like Northern Exposure ... cool sound) are great while others (most movies)
are not.  Oh well ...

- Jonathan 
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Date: Tuesday, 14 Apr 1992 14:38:43 EDT
From: (((ZERO))) <IO00844@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Ordered Batt Pack from Smile Photo for my A1 Digital

Hi. In the past few issues of video magazines I've been noticing under the
'Canon Accessories' ad in Smile Photo ads a 10,000 MAH Batt. Pack for up to
7 hours on any Canon Camcorder.  Well, I ordered one.  Does anyone know
anything about these? I certainly hope I didn't make a big mistake.
I told myself I needed a battery and what the hell, might as well get this...

Anyway, if anyone has any information about these it would be appreciated.

I realize that it's unlikely the battery pack will last 7 hours (I noticed the
'up to' 7 hours...heck, if it lasts 3-4 I'll be happy). Also, the ad says it
comes with a car cord for recharging in a car...that's a bonus.

Also, though most of the items under "canon accessories" are canon made, I
doubt this is, does anyone know?

Also, are all canon batteries compatible with other canon camcorders?  I
have an A1 Digital and the ad says 'works with all canon camcorders', I hope
mine isn't an exception!

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From: izumi@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (jecy)
Subject: SONY ldp-1000: oh man, i need INFO!
Summary: I need info
Keywords: specifications
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 15:57:29 GMT

Hi Hi!

I would like to receive any information people may have on the

SONY ldp-1000.

I know it has a rs-232 interface, but that's about it.

Someone is selling one for a pretty good price (at least I think they are)
and I just want to know what I'm getting.

thank you!


jecy


Newsgroups: rec.video
From: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu (George Ferguson)
Subject: NTSC to PAL transfer needed
Summary: Preferably in Finland.
Reply-To: ferguson@cs.rochester.edu (George Ferguson)
Organization: University of Rochester Computer Science Dept.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 23:55:52 GMT


Is there any kind person out there in netland who can help me out
getting an NTSC VHS tape transferred to PAL? I live with an
independent filmmaker who has been approached by a Finnish TV station
or production company for a preview copy of her film. Unfortunately,
it has to be PAL, and we don't have a whole lot of money for a
professional job.

So, pointers to cheap but reliable commercial services would be
helpful. Offers to do the conversion would be super helpful. Someone
in Finland who wanted to do the conversion and send the result on
would be incredibly helpful! We can pay shipping charges, of course,
and you get to watch 26 minutes of experimental documentary on the
Spanish Civil War with poems and stories about refugees gone to
America. Not the Simpsons, but there you go.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please email replies and I'll
post a summary if there's enough of them.

Thanks, George
-- 
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University of Rochester         VOX:  (716) 275-2527
Rochester  NY  14627-0226       FAX:  (716) 461-2018
From: jdeitch@umiami.ir.miami.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Disney release policy (BATB)
Date: 12 Apr 92 21:58:59 EDT
Followup-To: rec.video.releases
Organization: Univ of Miami IR

moriarty@tc.fluke.COM (Jeff Meyer) writes:

> Question: I thought (with the exception of FANTASIA, which was specifically
> said to be unavailable after this release) that Disney's policy was to wait
> until the film had been re-released theatrically, then release the video
> version somewhat later, and for a limited time.  However, when the film was
> next re-released (I think the cycle is generally 5-7 years), the video
> version would be available again.

Generally true, except for Beauty and the Beast.  

It's set for release this October.

- Jonathan
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