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From: boisvert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Richard Boisvert)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: The Jungle Book
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:17:48 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

In article <shorts.724355866@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> shorts@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Rafi Levavy) writes:
>>In article 16015@syma.sussex.ac.uk, markf@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Mark Foster) writes:
>>>they both claim 
>>>Walt Disney's The Jungle Book is availalable on Videocassette.
>>>Shock to the system or what???
>
>>I was told a couple of years ago that Disney had a list of several
>>movies that would NEVER be released for public sale.  Jungle Book
>>was on this list.  It is, however, possible for them to have changed
>>their minds.
>
>It IS available (I own the videotape and have seen the laserdisc in
>various stores.)

This is correct.  You can probably still find VHS and LD versions in stores.
As far as the list of Disney movies that would never see release, I'm not
so sure that that is valid now.  You can bet that Fantasia would be on that
list, yet that was made available.  I would also place bets that Snow White
and the Seven Dwarves will be on video within a year of its theatrical 
re-release this summer.  If Disney had such a list, these two films would
probably be on the top . . .

-- 
Brian R. Boisvert                        What's behind the words - images
Worcester Polytechnic Institute          they know will please us?
boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu                     I'll take what's real.
                                         Bring up the lights.   - Queensryche
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: gihan@bmerh886.BNR.CA (Gihan Karunaratne)
Subject: Source for LD Reviews Needed
Reply-To: gihan@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 18:33:14 GMT

Can someone recommend a good source of reviews on the quality of (domestic) LD
titles released over the past years. I have been subscribing to
LDN for about 6 months now. Beside past issues of LDN (it's kinda expensive
to get 7-8 years of issues) what else is out there preferably on the same
lines as LDN.

Does anyone have the Laser Disc Companion (ed. Douglas Prat?) which is
frequently advertised in LDN?

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Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: hayslett@lnm6006.raleigh.ibm.com (Dave Hayslett)
Subject: Re: LD's of, well, stuff?
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:15:00 GMT
Reply-To: hayslett@vnet.ibm.com (Dave Hayslett)
Organization: ELC
Followup-To: rec.video.releases

I don't know about any of the others, but a local Camelot has a bunch
of Voltron discs for $9.88.  I can't provide any details, because I didn't
really pay a lot of attention to it, but it's there...

Dave
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: rehrauer@apollo.hp.com (Steve Rehrauer)
Subject: Seeking THE LITTLE MERMAID on VHS...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:50:34 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Chelmsford, MA

I know it's a long shot, but...

A coworker is looking for this Disney title on VHS tape.  (Thanks, I've
got my copy on laserdisc.)  Is there perhaps anyone out there who's
[a] seen a VHS copy of this lurking in some dusty local bin, or [b] has
a copy they'd sell?  ([b] may not be too farfetched, I hope; I bought
a copy on VHS until the LD was released, but mine's long since been
sold...  I guess I'm hoping to find a procrastinator... :-)

Thanks if you can help.  (Suggestions that I make a tape copy of my disc
aren't helpful.)

-- 
"Look, Max: 'Cheese in a pressurized can'! |   Steve rehrauer@apollo.hp.com
 Even WE wouldn't eat THAT!"               | H.P. Systems Technology Division
   -- Freelance Police                     |    Massachusetts Language Lab
From: boisvert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Richard Boisvert)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Release Dates for Holy Grail and Fish Called Wanda
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:52:23 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


	I just got off the phone with Sight & Sound and they now say that the
release date of Criterion's Monty Python and the Holy Grail is JANUARY 30th.

	Also, MGM is releasing a new A Fish Called Wanda disc with a theatrical
trailer, chapter marks, and a new digital video transfer ($34.95).  Street date
is MARCH 30th.
-- 
Brian R. Boisvert                        What's behind the words - images
Worcester Polytechnic Institute          they know will please us?
boisvert@wpi.wpi.edu                     I'll take what's real.
                                         Bring up the lights.   - Queensryche
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Looking for....
Date: 11 Dec 92 18:05:13 GMT
Article-I.D.: njitgw.1992Dec11.180513.24872
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1g9opdINN6db@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> csievers@ecst.csuchico.edu (Dead/Amiga Head !!!!!!!) writes:
>
>
>  I am looking for an unopened version of Disney's "Little Mermaid."
>   Yes, I know..It's out of production for the next 100 years, but I was
>   hoping that one of you netsters could point me in the right direction
>   to find the vid. I am willing to pay retail+?????. 
>                Thanks,
>
>                  Christian
>
>-- 

You're going to have to settle for the Japanese version. It's bilingual,
so the English dialog is on the DIGITAL track, and the Japanese is on
the ANALOG track. The disc goes for about $59+tax.

=============================== Mike Gaines ============================
= WHAT is your name?............................Captain Jean-Luc Picard=
= WHAT is your quest?.............................I seek the Holy Grail=
= WHAT is the average velocity of a Bird of Prey?...Romulan or Klingon?=
=                        I.....I don't know AAAAAHHHHH!                =
========================== meg5184@hertz.njit.edu ======================
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Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: Fantasia LD on sale!
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 22:00:28 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team

judym@col.hp.com (Judy Miller) writes:

> I went to my favorite electronics store here in Colorado Springs and
> they were selling Fantasia LD's. 
>
> Is that common, or did I luck out? 

I still see them from time to time -- even the Collector's box.  Most retailers
probably had the Disney release system figured out and ordered extremely
high volume on the title.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)

"Miracles will happen as we dream"
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Subject: Re: Imax
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:35:08 GMT

Hey, Dave at Imax, can you answer a question? In Vancouver right now, they're
showing this film which was a big hit at the recent Expo in Madrid. It's an
Imax film which is projected at a considerable faster rate than normal, very
much like Showscan. Are we the only place that's showing this film at
present? Do they use the normal projector for this, or is there some special
equipment. It is double-billed with the Kuwait Fire show in the evenings.

By the way, the last time I went to this Imax theatre, quite a while ago, I
was quite disappointed that there was some big stain in the upper left hand
corner of the screen. Perhaps one of the loonies who went to the Rolling
Stones Imax movie threw something at it? Just wonder if it is difficult to
fix a problem like this... is the screen in one piece or in sections?

Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: andre@rurutu.wri.com (Andre Kuzniarek)
Subject: Re: SOLARIS on LD - Need Help Finding
Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:50:43 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.175109.7236@uhura.neoucom.edu>  
wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
 
> If anyone sees an extra copy of SOLARIS in a local laserdisc store
> I would greatly appreciate it if you would email me the relevant
> Store name and phone number.  Thanks in advance.

It would have to be a case where I spot 2 copies, as I'm still looking for  
one of my own. Is there any hope of a repressing?

AK
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Re: Technodeath
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 07:39:39 GMT

In article <Bz4JL6.5op@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
>Stephen Jonke (jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov) wrote:
>
>> Have there been ANY good pressings by Technodisc?  Excalibar is bad, it
>  sounds like Alien^3 is bad, and I've read there name almost every time
>  someone mentions a bad pressing -- why do they continue to give work to
>  these bozos?
>
>I haven't any problems with Technidisc since the Prisoner series in early
>1989.  I worry more about WEA these days than Technidisc.

I started looking through my database of laserdiscs.  Technodisc
has been stuck with a lot of lesser titles and presumably bad sources,
still about 3 out of 4 have had some kind of problem:
BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, CARAVAGGIO, CHERRY 2000...
(I stopped in the letter 'C').   I don't know the dates when these were	 
pressed.  However, even with good sources, Technodisc has not done such
a good job.  The first version of A VIDEO STANDARD was from Technodisc
and that had all kinds of noise, laser lock, and even deterioration.

It is VERY hard to accurately establish a pattern of bad pressings from
any plant.  However, we could compare two recent pressings from WEA and
Technidisc:  BATMAN RETURNS (WEA) and ALIEN^3 (Technidisc).  B.R. has
not been without some laserlock problems, but the video image (dark) is
superb.  A^3 has not been reported to have any laserlock (yet) but
the video image (also dark) is plagued with video noise.  Maybe the
video noise is not a problem of the video pressing plant.  Maybe it is
a problem somewhere earlier in the chain.  But if I were Technidisc, I
would be ashamed to press such crap.

I don't profess to believe all the hype coming out of WEA these days,
but at least they care enough about the laserdisc market to invite some
of the reviewers and editors to see their operation and explain how they
are trying harder.  To my knowledge Technidisc has not done this.
It would make for an interesting comparison.


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

    Bill Cruce, INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu, VOICE: 216-325-2511
   N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown OH 44272-0095
From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Monty Python and the Holy Grail info
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:50:23 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: kuchar@buast7.bu.edu's message of 11 Dec 92 13:21:33 GMT

>>>>> On 11 Dec 92 13:21:33 GMT, kuchar@buast7.bu.edu (Tom Kuchar) said:

kuchar> In article <1g4rsbINNjci@bigboote.WPI.EDU> ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter) writes:
>
>Here is what Sight & Sound has to say on the Holy Grail from the
>latest issue of Laser Flash....
>
>CC1311L      Monty Python and the Holy Grail      S   CX  DS  $49.95 VOY
>                    (LBX Criterion)

kuchar> BTW, this is CLV (if you can't tell by the price ;-) and is
kuchar> discounted 20% if ordered before 31 Dec.

>  1974/R/89 minutes. 
kuchar> ^ I thought this odd when I read the listing in Laser Flash.
kuchar> The movie was PG when it was released.

Maybe the extra footage is something to merit the R rating. Nudity?

--
 Scott Streeter                             Visit the Star Wars Archive at
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Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes)
Subject: Criterion's CLV/CAV releases
Organization: SURAnet, College Park, MD, USA, NA, Earth, Milky Way
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:32:11 GMT

Hope this is the right place to ask...

I've noticed that a number of Criterion's releases are listed as being
in "CLV/CAV" format.  I presume this means that part of the movie is
CLV and part is CAV, the question is, which parts?  I'm interested in
some recent Criterion releases (Spartacus, Jason and the Argonauts, and
The Fisher King) that are CLV/CAV and would like to know how they're broken
up.  If someone can tell me, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks.
-- 
-----------------------
William Barnes		SURAnet Operations
wbarnes@sura.net	(301) 982-4600 voice  (301) 982-4605 fax
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases,rec.arts.disney
From: mcdonald@netcom.com (Jim Mc Donald)
Subject: Re: Found -- Little Mermaid & Cinderella LDs
Keywords: Little Mermaid, Disney, LD
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:41:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec15.011200.4865@sura.net> wbarnes@sura.net (Bill Barnes) writes:
>In the latest Sight & Sound catalog, they list Japanese imports of the
>CLV versions of both "The Little Mermaid" and "Cinderella."  Since
>these two suckers are out of print here in the US, I thought some of
>you would be interested...  They have English on one track and
>Japanese on the other (don't say which is on analog and which is on
>digital, though) - no subtitles!  (Not letterboxed, near as I can
>tell, but you can't have everything.)  They're listed at about 5900
>yen, which will cost something over 60 bucks - not too bad considering
>there's someone who wants $100 for the domestic release.
>
>SIGHT & SOUND
>1275 MAIN STREET
>WALTHAM, MA 02154
>PHONE: 1-617-894-8633
>
Actually, I saw the Cinderella version last night at a Wherehouse record store
here in Los Angeles. They had two versions: the disc alone, and a limited
edition pack with a litho and a plaque. The LE LD was $150.

Jim Mc Donald
mcdonald@netcom.com


Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
From: bverreau@netcom.com (stargazer)
Subject: New "White Christmas"
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 08:23:01 GMT

I just finished watching what was billed as a 'restored' version of
"White Christmas" on local broadcast.  The showing had been promoted
with spots featuring 'before' and 'after' images of the same scene.
It was claimed that the new film would show a marked improvement for
both color and resolution.  I was somewhat dubious, so I set up my
LD player with a copy of the 1985 Paramount release and proceeded to
do an A/B comparison.  The difference was surprising!  The laserdisc
picture really did look soft and muddy next to the televised one.  The
print was a lot scratchier, too.  The hype was true for once.

Then I got to wondering - this was a 1954 technicolor production.
Could it be they used the old 3-strip film process to make it?  I don't
know all the details, but essentially, the original technicolor process
involved photographing on black and white film using special cameras
with primary color filters.  A color internegative was generated with
some kind of dye transfer method.  The method became obsolete in the
Fifties when color film came of age.  Ironically however, color movies
from the earlier period are better preserved today than more recent
technicolor works because color dyes are more subject to aging than
the silver nitrate in b&w.

This could explain the improvement in the new "White Christmas".  The
LD release might have been transferred from an old color print or
negative while the new version could be remastered from the original
3-strip film.  Does anyone know if that's the case and if so, is an
upgraded LD release in the works?  If they did as good a job on this
one as Criterion did on "The Adventures of Robin Hood", I'd buy it.

Bernie Verreau					bverreau@netcom.COM
Netcom - Online Communication Services 		Redwood City, CA
From: ss@wpi.WPI.EDU (Scott Streeter)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: The Flash LD
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:05:25
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: whiting@europa.eng.gtefsd.com's message of 17 Dec 1992 14:55:24 -0600

>>>>> On 17 Dec 1992 14:55:24 -0600, whiting@europa.eng.gtefsd.com (claude whiting) said:

whiting> Does anyone own this laserdisc? The special effects in the tv
whiting> show were pretty neat. Any comments on the disc are
whiting> appreciated.

I have it. Its 2-sides CLV. Digital sound. Looks and sound very good.
A very clean pressing, and the sound is Surround too. 93 minutes
running time.



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From: synchrods!daniel@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel Senderowicz)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: powered, active antennas
Date: 15 Dec 92 18:45:18 GMT
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In article <1992Dec15.174120.2964@news.acns.nwu.edu> you write:
>I lived on the 13/F of a highrise building and have lots of ghosts
>infesting my TV images except for maybe two stations; would one
>of these amplified antenna (Schotz, Recoton, Germini) help me
>get better reception (some ads claim I get 28 Db improvement !?) ?
>
>Which one of these have better reputation or performance ?
>
>(I am not planning to get cable.)
>I desparately need to correct this because I am using a lens kit to
>project a large image (6'); any ghost or aberration got magnified
>tremendously on the big picture. On good stations & videotaped 
>materials, the quality was quite acceptable.
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>- Geoff

Amplifying the signal won't help you at all. All you'll do is
increase the amplitude of the main path together with the
ghosts, which can make it worse due to potential saturation
problems. The only thing you can do is set an external antenna
with high directivity characteristics in the highest possible
point. A high mast on the roof is the best solution. Maybe your
landlords won't like that, so you might be stuck.

Dan.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Subject: THX Spectral Sound
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 18:11:49 GMT

There is a new movie theatre here in Vancouver called the Caprice opening
soon. It claims to have 70mm with something called THX Spectral Sound,
promised to be the most brain-destroying sonic experience on earth. Does
anyone know what this is? Pardon me for posting this here rather than in the
movies forum, but I think I will be able to get a more intelligent response
without ploughing through half a billion messages that I don't want to read.
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Video Review
Date: 15 Dec 92 19:53:50 EST
Distribution: na
Organization:  Wright State University 

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:
>
> 
> 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.
>> 
>> =======================================================================
>
According to the letter I got in the mail [along with the buyer's guide issue
and an offer to extend my subscription] Video Review WILL be sending me all
issues to which I am entitled under my current subscription!!!

	Jay
From: sss@castle.ed.ac.uk (S S Sturrock)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: questions about audio recordings on VCRs
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:45:05 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh University

In article <1992Dec10.163151.5946@tc.fluke.COM> strong@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:
>In article <BynJJC.9L6@news.cso.uiuc.edu> a-feygin@uiuc.edu writes:
>}
>}1. A friend of mine told me that you get ther same sound quality
>}when recording in HiFi mode whether you use SP, LP, or EP speed.
>}I find that hard to believe.  Is this true, and if not is the loss
>}of sound quality significant when going to faster speeds?
>
>It is true.  Sound quality is the same at all speeds.

I used to think this too but I have done test recordings running through my
hifi and there is a definite loss of clarity between SP and LP hifi
recordings, noticible as a slight whispyness to the HF.  For most purposes
though there is no significant difference, certainly vastly better than the
linear sound, but not the same at all speeds either.

Mind you, this observation is valid for PAL VHS, not gospel for NTSC.


-- 
Shane Sturrock, Biocomputing Research Unit, Darwin Building, Mayfield Road,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, Commonwealth of Independent Kingdoms.  :-)

Civilisation is a Haggis Supper with salt and sauce and a bottle of Irn Bru.
From: jpb@calmasd.Prime.COM (Jan Bielawski)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Why do you need an S-Video TV to get S-VHS resolution???????????????
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:50:02 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computervision, San Diego, CA

In article <1ged03INNj8s@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> starfish@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Smarter than the Average Blur) writes:
>
>Something I've always been confused on is why you need an S-Video TV or 
>monitor to get S-VHS resolution? 

	You will notice a much better picture even through RF inputs.
S-Video inputs are supposed to give you the full resolution of the S-VHS
format.  I have very little experience with S-VHS but to me the differences
between:

	1. VHS and laser
or
	2. 8mm and Hi8

(all four through RF inputs)

are bigger than switching from RF to S-Video.  I'm not saying the difference
between RF and S-Video is small, only that the 1. and 2. above are VERY
obvious.

	Jan Bielawski
	Computervision, San Diego
	jpb@calmasd.prime.com
From: bgonzal@math.rutgers.edu (Bil Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VHS Copy Protection??
Date: 16 Dec 92 17:47:14 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

>Trivia question...

>	Name the first US release on VHS that contained Macrovision?

was it MASK?

Bil Gonzalez
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: jimr@mothra.rose.hp.com (Jim Ranlett)
Subject: Re: Laser disk rentals in San Jose area?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:01:27 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

While I'm still thinking about it, I seem to recall that Blockbuster Video
was renting LDs at one point in time.  I saw them for rent at the store
on the corner of El Camino and Bowers(?) across from the Keystone video game
arcade.

Jim
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: DirecTV Info?
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:04:27 EST
Organization:  Wright State University 

Does anyone have some current information on "DirecTV"?  This is a direct
broadcast satellite system that, the last I heard, was supposed to be up and
running sometime in early '93.  As I recall there would be an 18" dish on the
roof and a
black box on your set to pick up 100 channels [promises, promises...] all for
about $700.00 installed + monthly fees.