HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: idelson@bms.com (Ira Idelson)
Subject: Purchasing VCR: Opinions sought
Reply-To: idelson@bms.com
Organization: Bristol-Myers Squibb PRI
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:44:38 GMT

I am in the market for a new VCR. The only requirement I have is that it be a Stereo
machine. A multibrand remote is a plus but not a requirement and VCR+ is definitely a minus.

I want to stay in the $400 +/- range. The machines I am presently looking at are the Mitsubishi HSU54, Sony SLV585 and Hitachi VT351.

Any opinions, positive or negative, on the above machines are welcome as well as any other suggestions.

Ira Idelson



Newsgroups: rec.video
From: trwei@PICA.ARMY.MIL ("Tony K. Wei", FSAC-SID)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Off-screen programming
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:14:11 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

I would like to thank everyone who responded, both privately and on the net,
to my response to the original question about off-screen programming.  Some
of the comments are a bit sarcastic but that is to be expected because I mis-
understood the original question.  As much as I appreciate the info, I would
still like to say a couple of things and answer questions.  The last time I
bought a VCR was about 2 years ago and it has both on and off screen
programming.  Since I don't buy a new VCR every year and seeing how technology
progresses faster than the speed of light, though some not for the better as 
is in this particular case, I tend to fall a bit behind.  I don't know if
anyone answered the original question about weather there are any VCRs out
there with off-screen programming or not.  From what I understand, the lower
end VCRs has only on-screen programming.  You could definitely find off
screen programming on the mid to higher end VCRs.  Thanks again.

Tony
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: 8mm HiFi: Adaptor for RCA Jack -> Earphones?
Date: 13 Aug 92 19:18:56 GMT
Organization: Indiana University

In <5039@gold.gvg.tek.com> brucer@gold.gvg.tek.com (Bruce Rayner) writes:

>In article <mr.713651007@ogre> mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) writes:
>>I've got a question:  Can you get simple audio out of the camcorder by
>>converting one of the audio-out RCA jack to a miniplug?  I've got both


>Doesn't the 71 have an earphone output?  Most of these cameras do. 

Nope.  (That's why I asked!  :)

>It's lo Z where the RCA outputs have a Z of about 1K ohms.

Whatsa "Z"?

From what I understand, I *might* have to amplify the output of these
jacks in order to get decent audio...

I'll try converting them first and see how it goes...

--
michael regoli
mr@cica.indiana.edu
regoli@iubacs.BITNET
..{ames, rutgers}!iuvax!cica!mr
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.satellite
From: yasin@laser.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yasin)
Subject: Please advice on Multi System Converters
Organization: MOTOROLA 
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:31:06 GMT

Fellow Video Watchers,

Hi, My first mail on this topic, dont kill me :^) for my
ignorance. I am desperately looking for a system with the 
following capabilities:

	.  Plays a VHS recorded  PAL/NTSC/SECAM cassette
	   and outputs into another systems VCR/TV.
	   e.g. Plays a PAL tape and the o/p signal is
	   fed to a NTSC TV or NTSC VCR for taping or
	   vice versa.

	.  Feed a signal through an NTSC cam corder and
	   tape it on a PAL system.

	.  Feed signals from the Satellite dish, directly
	   to this system, and view this on a PAL/NTSC TV.
	   This will be done in Pakistan, and I have no
	   idea on the type of signal I will receive over
	   there. (BTW can I use a dish used in USA over
	   in Pakistan. If not what kind of information
	   should I get from Pakistan in order to buy
	   a compatible system in USA.)

Is this a dream, and if not would any kind soul would put
out names/and phone numbers for mail order places. Any
information on this will be deeply appreciated.

Regards

Yasin.

(617) 821-7949
	    

Newsgroups: rec.video
From: Reter@NIEHS.bitnet (Roy Reter)
Subject: Cable TV question
Organization: CSC/NIEHS
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 17:44:06 GMT

Hi guys and gals,

I have a cable outlet on oneside of the room, and low and behold I want to put
the TV (cable ready) on the other.  Is there a inexpensive device out there
that will allow me to do this wireless?  I have seen the one in stores that
Rabbit puts out but it must have the signal converted into seperate video and
audio signals at it's transmitter, I would like to take the cable plug it
directly into the transmitter, and then plug the TV directly into the receiver.
 Does anyone know of such a beast.
Please mail your responses to roy@catt.ncsu.edu.


Thanks,

Roy
From: ccheng@mips.com
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Mail order for SOny TV.
Date: 20 Aug 1992 22:46:25 GMT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: ccheng@mips.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: wildcat.mips.com


I am about to mail order a Sony TV from Camera World of Oregon, but just find out that they
don't handle TV mail orders. So would somebody please suggest me some good mail order 
companies especially for Sony TVs?

I am definitely going for the U.S. warranty so the company would better be an authorized dealer of Sony.

Thanks in advance.

Cheng.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: mbs@odaat.lkg.dec.com (Mark Sawyer)
Subject: Camcorder purchase questions
Reply-To: mbs@odaat.lkg.dec.com.UUCP (Mark Sawyer)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA, USA
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 15:42:10 GMT

First, let me tender my apologies to the net if these questions have
been asked and answered 100's of times before.

I'm getting ready to purchase my first camcorder and I have narrowed
it down to a particular model (Sony TR81) but I now have to decide
whether to buy it mailorder or from a local retail store (Lechmere's
for instance).

I have narrowed the purchase down to the following options:

    * Buy mailorder from Camera World of Oregon 

    * Buy local from Lechmere

First some specifics:

    * Camera World of Oregon has the TR81 for $880 + $20 S&H
      An additional $10 will get it here in 2-3 working days.
      (This includes a Sony USA warrantee.)

    * I've seen the TR81 for less via mailorder but I don't believe
      (but I'm not sure) that it came with a USA warrantee.

    * Lechmere has the TR81 on sale for $1199 (regularly $1299)

    * Lechmere has a 6 year warrantee/service contract for $349
      (This covers just about everything, yearly cleaning, repairs,
       a loaner if it's ever in the shop, and even replacements for
       the battery should it fail.)

Now some questions:

    * I'm looking at a $300 delta between CWO and Lechmere for the
      basic camcorder.  Is Lechmere's price reasonable for a retail
      store?

    * Assuming that I chose to go with the "warm-fuzzy" of dealing
      with Lechemere (versus the potential "cold-prickly" of dealing
      mailorder), is the additional 6 year warrantee/service
      contract a good deal?  I've been advised by one person that
      this kind of contract is a good idea for something like a
      camcorder.  Comments?

    * Assuming that I chose to go with CWO and there is an extendend
      warrantee available (I forgot to ask), should I get it?

    Thanks for any help you can give me.

    Mark
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From: tsaiwn@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (WenNung Tsai)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Features diff. between SLV595HF and SLV696HF?
Date: 19 Aug 92 07:54:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.

Hi,
	Can anybody out there briefly describe what the difference
between SLV595HF and 696HF?
	I remembered someone posted an article saying that SLV595HF is
very very good. What I can see in magazines are the prices of them.
But I would like to know if it is worth buying 696 insted of 595?
Thanks in advance.
Wennung
From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Star Wars LBX from Columbia House
Date: 15 Aug 92 19:12:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

In article <1992Aug14.225956.2149@ctr.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
> 
> In article <7970954@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
> >In rec.video, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
> >
> >> Basically, it is like someone put a blue-green filter over a splotch in
> >> the upper left, a red splotch in the center, etc.  It seems like a strange
> >> kind of problem -- not one I'd associate with normal pressing.
> >
> >How does that disc look on another player (or even another TV).
> >
> 	I've had 3 other people state that they had the problems
> with their discs. Admittedly, my player had to be "adjusted"
> after purchase, but it never did this before, and doesn't do it
> to other discs.
> 
> 	I also don't know anyone else with a laserdisc player, so
> I can't test it.

Make that a fourth, but I returned all my CH discs before it was too late.
I know that a million people have said that there CH discs are fine, but
maybe now CH is having their own seperate cheaper printings done?  That's
the way their other clubs work and the quality is generally inferior.  The
Star Wars discs I got from CH also had bad scrolling line problems and one
was really bad because of what looked like a piece of metal imbedded into
the plastic.

Lets not get into a war on this.  My point is only that all three CH discs
I received a few months ago from CH were defective.  It is also true that
a lot of people who had gotten their discs from CH well before me have had
NO problems at all.  Make of it what you wish.

Steve
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: 1/2 inch B & W spool video machine ??
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 22:22:27 GMT

In article <BtAyAH.EFB@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> svaradar@sangeet.intel.com () writes:
>
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a few video spools recorded on the ancient
>1/2 inch black and white format. 

>I would like to convert them to standard VHS
>format. Does anybody know where I can have this
>done, or where I can obtain a spool machine to
>do it myself ??

Well - you do have a problem IF you don't know what machine it
was recorded on.

In the 1/2" reel format I remember more than one format.   I
remember doing some 'music videos' back in about 1966 on 1/2
Concords, Sony's and Ampexes.  I think the Ampex was not
compatible with the others.  And one of those formats was a
skip-field type format.

First figure out the machine, and then try to find one in
working condition.

-- 
Bill Vermillion - bill@bilver.oau.org  bill.vermillion@oau.org
                - bill@bilver.uucp 
                - ..!{peora|ge-dab|tous|tarpit}!bilver!bill

Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.satellite
From: jpl1@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
Subject: Re: Please advice on Multi System Converters
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:47:00 GMT

yasin@laser.dev.cdx.mot.com (Yasin) writes:

>Fellow Video Watchers,


>	.  Plays a VHS recorded  PAL/NTSC/SECAM cassette
>	   and outputs into another systems VCR/TV.
>	   e.g. Plays a PAL tape and the o/p signal is
>	   fed to a NTSC TV or NTSC VCR for taping or
>	   vice versa.

Hi Yasin,
I have somewhat the same needs.  I have spoken to several manufacturers
incl Instant Replay (305-854-8777) and Panasonic (201-348-7000).
Both make very good machines but they are also expensive (approx $2000
range).  For the "normal" consumer the only hope seems to lie in the 
new Aiwa machines.  THese convert PAL/NTSC/SECAM.  The first model
that is just now coming out does not have a tuner so you need any
vcr/tv combo.  this will read the three standards and (I am told)
you can output in a different standard.  I am on a waiting list and
they said they would call me back this week.  I do not have the 
model numbers for the Aiwas here in fornt of me, something like MG 110
and
MG 360. 
If you find out something else about the Aiwa's or something about a
different brand, please let me know.
thanks
patrick

--
John Patrick Lestrade, PhD                             jpl1@ra.msstate.edu
Department of Physics and Astronomy                    batse::lestrade  (SPAN)
Mississippi State University, MS 39762                 lestrade@msstate.bitnet
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Magnavox RD0510 5" portable 12volt TV review
Date: 18 Aug 92 04:40:20 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

At Sam's wholesale club they are selling Magnavox 5" color TV's.  Normally the
only video stuff I would consider purchasing at Sam's is blank tapes but for
under $190 this TV looked interesting.  It is small (about the size of a Sony
EV-C3 8mm VCR) and light weight.  It runs on 12volts DC supplied via AC wall
transformer or cigarette lighter socket.   The input can either be its internal
tuner or a stand Audio/Video mono source (e.g. CamCorder or VCR).  The picture
quality is good.  If you are looking for a low cost monitor that can be
portable this looks like a good solution. 

I tried running on my 12v "brick" type gelsel battery.  It ran for about 6
hours.  That is about an hour longer than my Sony GV-8 3" LCD TV would last.
From: larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD discolored spots -- has anyone ever gotten a fixed replacement?
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:48:08 GMT
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site - 219-289-3745

es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>	The one thing which I haven't heard from anyone is
>whether this problem of discolored regions on a laserdisc has
>ever been fixed by disc replacement. I believe now that it is the

I saw Havanna on Tuesday on LD and there were some
discolored areas on side 1 -- however, I didn't notice 
anything when watching/listening (I have a 40" mitsubshi
rear projection monitor and a external digital ready
sound system).

-- 
Larry Snyder                                    internet: larry@gator.rn.com
keeper of the Gator                                  uucp: uunet!gator!larry
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: kleung@perfect.fia.dmg.ml.com (Kwong Yuen Leung)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Star Wars -- all three bad?
Date: 18 Aug 92 23:26:36 GMT
	<1992Aug12.233647.18471@ctr.columbia.edu>
Organization: /home/kleung/.organization

In article <1992Aug12.233647.18471@ctr.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

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   From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
   Organization: Columbia U., New York City
   References: <1992Aug12.230209.27978@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
   Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose)
   Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 23:36:47 GMT
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	   I reported before having odd-shaped tinted regions of the
   screen, in only certain scenes, of Star Wars (the first). The
   areas are defined, and neither the location nor the amount or
   color of the tinting changes at any point, or even between
   scenes.

	   I have now noticed it in all three of the discs in the
   series. The TV is fine from other sources, and the player is fine
   with other discs. But these are three different discs --
   different pressings. Is it possible that the plant they used is
   just sending out screwed up discs?

	   The other thing is -- is it possible that my player is
   not quite balanced right and is overly sensitive to some small
   problem it could otherwise deal with?
	   -- Ethan


   purgamentum init, exit purgamentum

---

I have the same problem with my Pioneer CLD-M90. I've noticed it 
on my 2001 and Henry V disks. It seems most noticeable in scenes
with really bright background lighting, and it's not just the
light background making it visible; I've paused the disk at that
point and see the same tint on the blue background. Is this problem
related to the player?
--
Kwong Yuen Leung      (__)\|/\ / //  "There cannot be a crisis next week.
Merrill Lynch & Co.   ($$)-O- X\//    My schedule is already full."
kleung@fia.dmg.ml.com  \/ /|\/ \/                  -- Henry Kissinger
From: Rupin.Dang@dartmouth.edu (Rupin Dang)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: WANTED:BOGEN TRIPOD
Date: 17 Aug 92 03:54:20 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Iwould like to buy a used Bogen 3194 tripod (3191 legs and 3066 legs). If you
have one or a similar one made by Miller or Quickset, please contact me at the
earliest.

Rupin.Dang@dartmouth.edu
From: rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 15:04:45 GMT
Subject: ->: The Archival Film Disc
Organization: Hewlett-Packard/WSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
Newsgroups: rec.video

re: Pointer to rec.video.releases.

I have posted a review of "The Archival Film Disc" (alias "A Technicolor
Trailer Disc"), a $100 limited edition NTSC LD recently published by
"Motorcade Entertainment".

If (e.g. VIDEOTECH digest) you don't get rec.video.releases, I can supply a
copy via email.

Regards,                                              Hewlett-Packard
Bob Niland      Internet: rjn@FC.HP.COM               3404 East Harmony Road
                CompuServe:  71044,2124               Ft Collins CO 80525-9599
From: wrs@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Wolfgang R. Schulz)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Converting videosignals : PAL <--> NTSC ( Questions )
Date: 15 Aug 92 12:42:28 GMT
Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg


Gary, John:
Sharp has a stand-alone converter PAL/NTSC/SECAM out on the market.
It's supposed to be sold with their LCD projector SharpVision to make
it international, but available separately, if you can find it.
The model name is AN-200SC, and it has been rejected in Europe because
of insufficient electric safety and pulse radiation. It is sold though
in Sweden. And certainly in Far East for around $600 or even less,
in Australia for around $Aus 1K. Reports say, it is "not bad".
A follow-up model will be out soon in Europe, at 50% more costs, but
"safer", and called AN-300SC. But it may take a few more months to
show up.
Wolfgang
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Sony SLV-R5U Owners... Help me!
Date: 12 Aug 92 14:11:21 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

In article <19920812.044809.302@almaden.ibm.com>, bgh@vnet.ibm.com (Brian Harper) writes:
> In <1992Aug11.225244.3566@spcvxb.spc.edu> Jeff Killeen writes:
>>
>>The R5 _is_ a LANC master for your Camcorder but not to the level you are
>>looking for.  A sample editing session would go like this...
>>
>>   1) Wire the Camcorder audio, "S", and LANC/Control-L jacks to
>>   the R5 audio, "S", and LANC/Control-L jacks.
>>
> 
> Great information!  I just bought an R5, but the cable required
> to make this connection does not come with it.  Could anybody
> describe how to wire this connection?  Alternatively, can anyone
> recommend a good commercial source for this cable?

Audio to audio is a standard RCA jacks

S-video to S-video is a standard 4 pin S-video jacks (Sony YC-15V)

LANC to LANC is Control-L 5 pin to Stereo mini-mini.  The Sony part number is 
VK-810.
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: blip@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Bryan Lip)
Subject: "HELP" NTSC 3.58 OR 4.76 WHICH ONE DO YOU USE IN USA?
Organization: University of Western Australia
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:57:19 GMT

HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!!
From: steelie@csa.bu.edu (James Howard)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: st:tng blue corners?
Date: 17 Aug 92 05:49:15 GMT
Distribution: rec
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

In article <1992Aug17.845.16635@dosgate> "james kewageshig" <james.kewageshig@canrem.com> writes:
>BN>Color splotches on direct-view TVs are usually the result of having speakers
>BN>(with their large magnets) too close to the CRT.
>
>Not really related but, has anyone else noticed that the end credits
>for Star Trek: The Next Generation has a blue tint near the top and
>bottom left corners, but not in the other two ??  I thought this was
>my TV, but then I saw the same thing on another TV...  you might have
>to look carefully because the background is a starscape so its mostly
>black, but even with my well-adjusted TV, I see it.   ANYONE?

 Yes, I have seen it.  It is visible during almost any scene where
the background is black (stars).  I have tried this on several
sets, and if you adjust contrast and brightness there is ALWAYS
a blueish tint in the bottom left corner.     The question is,
how can Paramount let this kind of crap slip through quality
control?
 
 If you have your brightness set just below a certain level, you
won't see it at all.   But it is there.   And we are not watching
this on cheap TV's... Sony XBR's to be exact.
From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Star Wars LBX from Columbia House
Date: 17 Aug 92 23:38:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore

In article <1992Aug15.191212.4074@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov> jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
>In article <1992Aug14.225956.2149@ctr.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>> 
>> In article <7970954@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rjn@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
>> >In rec.video, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>> >
>> >> Basically, it is like someone put a blue-green filter over a splotch in
>> >> the upper left, a red splotch in the center, etc.  It seems like a strange
>> >> kind of problem -- not one I'd associate with normal pressing.
>> >
>> >How does that disc look on another player (or even another TV).
>> >
>> 	I've had 3 other people state that they had the problems
>> with their discs. Admittedly, my player had to be "adjusted"
>> after purchase, but it never did this before, and doesn't do it
>> to other discs.
>> 
>> 	I also don't know anyone else with a laserdisc player, so
>> I can't test it.
>
>Make that a fourth, but I returned all my CH discs before it was too late.
>I know that a million people have said that there CH discs are fine, but
>maybe now CH is having their own seperate cheaper printings done?  That's
>the way their other clubs work and the quality is generally inferior.  The
>Star Wars discs I got from CH also had bad scrolling line problems and one
>was really bad because of what looked like a piece of metal imbedded into
>the plastic.
>
>Lets not get into a war on this.  My point is only that all three CH discs
>I received a few months ago from CH were defective.  It is also true that
>a lot of people who had gotten their discs from CH well before me have had
>NO problems at all.  Make of it what you wish.
>
>Steve

No need for a flame war but perhaps we could hold a survey on percentage of
discs returned to CHLDC. My experience has been positive with 7 regular 
selections, but received a cracked Star Trek disc from the video library
subsidiary. However a disc I bought at retail (T2) was similarly cracked.
As far as pressing defects such as scrolling white lines have been absent 
from my CHLDC selections, but I have noted them on several recent rentals.
I just got DH 2 from CHLDC and am quite pleased. Haven't had time to check out
DWW 2 yet, so I better knock on wood! AAnybody else care to climb on the
bandwagon ????