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From: DEASTMAN@vnet.ibm.com (Don Eastman)
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:50:21 PST
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD-S2, LD-X1 what's the difference?
Reply-To: DEASTMAN@vnet.ibm.com (Don Eastman)
Organization: ADSTAR - SAN JOSE, CA.
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.1
            <1993Jan07.060932.5964@uhura.neoucom.edu>

In <1993Jan07.060932.5964@uhura.neoucom.edu> William R. Cruce writes:
>was introduced in 1989 and a CLD-92 in 1991.  The CLD-95 has been
>around since early 1992.  Several reviewers who have compared both
>the CLD-95 and the LD-S1 consider the '95 to have the better video
>image.

I believe that the CLD-95 has been around since the middle of 1991.  I
purchased mine in Sept. 1991 and it has a build date of 6/91 stamped on
the back of the unit.

>reading certain pressings).  The reviewers for the Perfect Vision
>magazine have had tracking problems with several samples of CLD-95
>players, but several CLD-95 owners on the net have not experienced
>these problems (including your humble narrator).  In my experience

My CLD-95 has just developed a tracking problem on CD's (not Laser discs),
when the player has just been turned on.  If the unit is allowed to warm
up for 10 or so minutes before playing everything is OK.  The tracking
problem can best be described by comparison to a record player where the
tonearm 'skates' across the record in a slow/jerky/bouncing motion, at
least that is the best analogy I can come up with as far as what I think
the music sounds like.  Usually if I eject the drawer, close the drawer,
and play again, everything is also OK.  Yes, the CD was correctly centered,
I am always very careful about this.
Even with this problem (will get fixed sometime when hard failure) I would
have no other player.  At the time I purchased the unit I brought home
(purchased) 4 players and auditioned first music then video.  My wife
thought I was crazy.  The CLD-95 won hands down in all areas, with the
Panasonic LX-1000 taking second, although exhibited strange artifacts,
moire patterns in background which I could not live with.  I even went
back and got another LX-1000 to compare, it did the same thing.
The other units were the Pioneer 3090 and a Sony ???.  Kept the 95 and
returned the other 3 units.  Video comparisons were made on a 60" diag. TV.

A very happy CLD-95 owner...


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From: perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: NTSC -> PAL
Date: 4 Jan 93 06:57:16 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

hello... I have some tapes I'd like to send to a friend in the UK. Is there
somewhere I can go than can copy what I have onto a PAL format tape?

Do large Universities usually have this sort of equipment?

Thanks...   as this is probably common knowledge to many of you...
please reply by post...

WILL-E
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perez@andromeda.rutgers.edu (William Perez)
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: NTSC --> PAL inline converter?
Date: 7 Jan 93 03:29:48 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan6.014843.12204@midway.uchicago.edu> rwl2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
<
<    I have a sony 8mm video camera, NTSC, that I want to take with me to Russia next summer.  I would like to be able to show my tapes on TVs there, but they are on PAL (I think).  Is there some sort of signal converter that I can bring along to run the cables through and connect with their TVs?  

First off, press the return key BEFORE you reach the 79th character.  Makes it
easier for reading and editing.

Secondly, I think Russia is SECAM.  Same problem though.

Thirdly, no.

If you connect to a TV with audio and video cables, you might get a B&W
picture, but don't count on it.  If you try to use RF (the connectors are
different overseas), you won't get any audio and the TV won't receive the
frequency.

Show the tape through the viewfinder and use headphones.

You also have to worry about the local power supply.  You gotta recharge the
battery somehow.
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From: barb@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Barb D. Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: For sale video equipment
Keywords: Digital Mixer, beta vcr
Date: 8 Jan 93 18:29:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix

I have a brand new, still in box, never opened (as I bought it for
a backup unit to my main WJ-AVE5) Panasonic WJAVE5 digital mixer
unit for sale. I am asking $1200 shipped.
Also have a Sony SL-HF860D (predecessor to the 870d) SuperBeta HiFi
unit for sale. Want $400 shipped.
Also, I have TWO Toshiba SV-F990 SVHS digital vcrs. These units connected
together offer just about anything imaginable for editing (except
timecode). They have every digital effect possible, but in color
corrector, built in titler, and just too much to mention. These were the
only units that I know of that had built in PREROLL and accurate syncro
edit. Also has an optical scanner you can attached to the unit. Would like
$1800 for the pair.
Also have Sony XVC-900 color corrector, RME700 hi8 editor, CCD V801 (brand
new) units for sale. If interested, please leave me e-mail or call 916
991-6457. Reason for sale is that it appears that I was underwitheld on
taxes this year and Uncle SAM likes that he gets paid. All are in
excellant condition.
 
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: hankin@sauron.osf.org (Scott Hankin)
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS code conflicts in TV Guide
Keywords: vcr+
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Distribution: usa
Date:  7 Jan 93 15:00:07 GMT

brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

><>Get a VCR that doesn't lose track of time right after the power goes out.
><>Mine at least lasts for 1/2 hour (or more).
><
><    I see - rather than buy a $50 device which handles my current VCR, I
><    should go out and buy a new VCR instead.  Ah - good plan!

>No, I'm saying that when the VCR was purchased the first time, one should
>have been purchased that had timer/clock backup.

    Ah - even better - change the past.  20-20 hindsight in action.  The
    ever-helpful "You should have done something different" advice.

    Of course, a battery-backed VCR still wouldn't help me change the
    channel on my cable decoder when I want to tape two movies overnight on
    HBO and Cinemax.  (Yes, yes, I know - I should move to another town with
    better cable service or rent movies instead or etc., etc.)

    Face it - the VCR+ is a simple solution to a variety of problems.

- Scott

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Open Software Foundation
11 Cambridge Center
Cambridge, MA 02142
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers
From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
Subject: Re: Tape snapped at beginning of tape
Organization: none
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:21:18 GMT

In article <C0EMsu.Lpy@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps) writes:
-In article <1id2nrINNq9g@shelley.u.washington.edu> roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) writes:
--Is it possible to repair a VHS tape that has
--broken from the take-up (right-side) reel?
--My rewinder broke this tape, and I'd like to
--fix it (the tape). 
-
-   If it is really at the very beginning of the tape, it's probably
-safe to use Scotch tape to repair it.  I'm assuming that since the
-repair would be done at the beginning of the tape, the Scotch tape
-would never pass across the heads.  If there is still too much slack
-(i.e. the splice would pass over the heads), I suppose you could cut
-the slack off the tape if you're sure you wouldn't lose anything.

  The goo from the scotch tape is pretty good at creeping along the side
of tape and getting into the heads eventually.

  If you cut off the transparent leader, the VCR won't know when it is
to go out of rewind, and will probably try to snap the end off again.

  I don't think I would want to try this, unless perhaps to play the
tape once and copy it, then throw away the old tape, without even
rewinding it.

	Alan
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS code conflicts in TV Guide
Keywords: vcr+
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:26:43 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan5.042055.9206@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
<In article <1993Jan04.211801.3124@microsoft.com> gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
<
<>I've been quitely ignoring this thread until know.  
<
<>Would somebody explain to me why you would go to all the trouble 
<>of firing up a PC to create VCR+ codes and then entering them 
<>instead of just programming your damn VCR the regular way?
<
<>It sould like using a chainsaw to cut butter if you ask me.
<
<Well if it were a 500 pound pat of butter a chainsaw might be the
<answer.
<
<But - let me ask you this.   Have you ever put a program into a VCR,
<gone away for a few days, and come back to find nothing recorded, all
<because power went out and wiped out the programming in the VCR.
<
<That's the joy of the VC+.    It's a battery device, and as long as the
<power is on when you want to record the program, it activates your vcrs
<remote control section, and away you go.
<
<The marketing of the VC+ is geared along the lines of "can't figure out
<how to program your VCR - then get VC+ - and no longer have to admit
<you are too stupid to figure out a cheap machine".    The ability to
<save programming through power-outages never seems to be mentioned, but
<it's a good selling point - particularly in areas like I live in where
<'ma nature' will take out the power for seconds to minutes every few
<days for 3 - 4 months on end during thunder bumper summers.

Like I said in a previous posting, get a VCR that doesn't lose time when
the power goes out.  Doing that ahead of time would have saved the expense
of buying another gadget.

If the power is out when the VCR+ tries to make the VCR record, it still
ain't going to record.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: robbo@hprpcd.rose.hp.com (Dave Robinson)
Subject: Re: Looking for 30 and 60 minute VHS tapes
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:59:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: HP - Systems Technology Division
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.8 PL6]

W. David Higgins (wdh@grouper.mkt.csd.harris.com) wrote:
: I'm looking for a supplier of large hub 30 and 60 minute
: VHS tapes.  I don't need that many (10..20 each, max), and
: the quality of the tape is important.


	You could try the following company:

	RVT
	1911 Douglas Boulevard #85
	Roseville
	CA 95661.
	(916) 773-3705

	They can supply small quantities of the the above tapes for around
$2.50 a tape. The tape in the cassette is made by Agfa. The tapes are not in 
sleeves. A plain white cardboard one costs about $0.15 each. You can of course
get plastic library cases which cost more. However, you might be able to get 
these from your local Radio Shack cheaper. RVT can also print custom laser
labels for you.

	Regards

	Dave

:
From: mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael D. Lawler)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Sony SLV696HF
Keywords: information requested
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:32:28 GMT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana


If anyone has information about this vcr please email it to me.  I'm
interrested in the quality of this model.  I'm blind so I don't
usually read this newsgroup so email would be appreciated.  Thanks!
mdlawler@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
00mdlawler@bsuvax1.bitnet
00mdlawler@bsuvc.bsu.edu
From: VYBP1001@SMUVM1.BITNET (Chris Milazzo)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VIDEOTECH Digest V93 #19
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:31:04 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Internet

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but there is a new book out called
"Widescreen Cinema" by John Belton.  It is published by the Harvard Univ. Press
and is available in cloth (ISBN 0-674-95260-x) and paperback (ISBN 0-674-95261-
x).  It is copyright 1992 and is 300 pages.  I have not read the book (we just
now got it in here at the library) but it seems to be more of a history and
discussion of the various processes rather than a list of "what movie was shot
what way" (in other words not like the Carr and Hayes[?] book).  Has anyone
read this new book?  Is it more accurate than the Carr and Hayes book?  I do
not know enough about the processes to be qualified to give any sort of
critique myself.

Chris Milazzo
SMU    Dallas,TX
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: glk9533@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (Greg L. Kimnach)
Subject: Re: For sale video equipment
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Digital Mixer, beta vcr
Organization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio
Distribution: usa
Date: 11 Jan 1993 14:16 EST  

In article <1993Jan8.182924.9245@sactoh0.sac.ca.us>, barb@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Barb D. Hamilton) writes...
>I have a brand new, still in box, never opened (as I bought it for
>a backup unit to my main WJ-AVE5) Panasonic WJAVE5 digital mixer
>unit for sale. I am asking $1200 shipped.
>Also have a Sony SL-HF860D (predecessor to the 870d) SuperBeta HiFi
>unit for sale. Want $400 shipped.
>Also, I have TWO Toshiba SV-F990 SVHS digital vcrs. These units connected
>together offer just about anything imaginable for editing (except
>timecode). They have every digital effect possible, but in color
>corrector, built in titler, and just too much to mention. These were the
>only units that I know of that had built in PREROLL and accurate syncro
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>edit. Also has an optical scanner you can attached to the unit. Would like
>$1800 for the pair.

So did the SL-HF1000s (1986) and do the EDV-9500s.  They are also more accurate
than the 990s.  1000s had a built-in character generator and the B1 shb
recording, as well.

>Also have Sony XVC-900 color corrector, RME700 hi8 editor, CCD V801 (brand
>new) units for sale. If interested, please leave me e-mail or call 916
>991-6457. Reason for sale is that it appears that I was underwitheld on
>taxes this year and Uncle SAM likes that he gets paid. All are in
>excellant condition.
> 
>-- 
>#############################################################
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                         ED-Beta: Simply THE BEST!
"ED Beta is simply the best consumer videotape format available."
                                     --VIDEO Magazime, Nov. 1992, page 30.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: morimoto@irvine.ingr.com (Michael Morimoto - Irv.SA)
Subject: Re: Editing, Inexpensively
Organization: Intergraph - Irvine, CA.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 21:58:48 GMT

In article <72671@cup.portal.com> amigan@cup.portal.com (Mike - Medwid) writes:
>I have a Panasonic camcorder and Amiga computer (for graphics).  I also have
>a Panasonic VCR with flying erase heads.  If I use the pause button on the
>VCR well, I can generally make pretty clean cuts from one scene to the
>next.  Still, once in a while the tape will freak for a fraction of a 
>second in between graphics-video-graphics etc.  What would be the least
>expensive means of getting seamless playback of a number of graphics and
>video scenes?  

Check your tracking.  One of the selling points of flying erase heads is
clean edits.

>Another question..on still framing.  My old roommate had a vcr that had a 
>near perfect freeze frame.  That is, it appeared that the image was loaded
>to a ram chip and displayed from there.  Then he could use his digitizer
>to grab red-green-blue info and capture the image with very little 
>distortion.  Most vcrs I see today still have that annoying horizontal
>bar and other image distorion when the pause button is pressed.  What
>specific feature should one look for in a vcr that would give me the
>nice clear/stable paused image?

A few years back we had 'digital' VCR's but americans didn't go for them in
large numbers so they stopped shipping them here.  Now you can only find the
digital freeze frame in higher end ($$$) machines.  You could get a digital
HI-FI, 4 head VCR for about $450 about 4 years ago.
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Closed Caption
Date: 10 Jan 93 03:36:33 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1993Jan8.045950.20999@worak.kaist.ac.kr> wgcho@cair.kaist.ac.kr (Cho Wongyu) writes:
<Hello.
<Does anyone know if it is possible to view closed caption characters without 
<any caption-capable video playor or laser-disc player? 
<I am not interested in viewing caption characters from network TV. I only want
<it from video and laser discs. I think it may be possible by putting some independent
<caption decoder within the connection of the TV and the video player. 
<Is this right?

Yes and yes.
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: mike%jim.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu (Mike S.)
Subject: Re: Sony LD Players?
Organization: BITS, St. Louis, MO
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 09:09:21 GMT

kst@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Kevin Treu) writes:

>I am considering the purchase of a Sony LD player, and would like to
>call upon the collective net-wisdom to either confirm this notion or
>warn me off.  Specifically, I'm considering the MDP-455 model.  Does
>anyone have any experience with this?

Just hooked mine up a bit over a week ago.  So far, I have been impressed
with it, for both CDs and LDs.

Has full CD and LD track/chapter programmability, including shuffle play.
As with some of the better CD players, you can enter a time interval to
split a CD into (when dubbing to tape, for example, you can have the
player automatically split a CD into 2 45-minute max groups of tracks)

About the only thing missing (besides 2 sided play, full CLV effects,
and multi-CD play, all of which I can live without) is a feature to
pause for x seconds between songs, for dubbing to tape.  Actually,
it may have this--I haven't read all the way through the manual yet.

If you need any more info, let me know!

Mike
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From: rick@rodan.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: VCR PLUS code conflicts in TV Guide
Date: 4 Jan 1993 19:11:53 -0500
Organization: UUNET Communications
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net
Summary: cable boxes
Keywords: vcr+

In article <1993Jan04.211801.3124@microsoft.com>, gregde@microsoft.com (Greg Demichillie) writes:
>
> Would somebody explain to me why you would go to all the trouble 
> of firing up a PC to create VCR+ codes and then entering them 
> instead of just programming your damn VCR the regular way?
> 
> It sould like using a chainsaw to cut butter if you ask me.

I have a very nice, S-VHS, cable ready VCR and monitor.  I am perfectly
capable of programming VCRs (and other things...).

I also have a cable box (Zenith ZTAC) that has TWO co-axs in and ONE
out.  I have nominally 128 channels. 1-63 are on coax-1 and 64-128 are
on coax-2.  The ZTAC has a relay inside to physically switch from one
input cable to the other so I have never to physically switch cables.

I can't plug it into my "cable-ready" VCR, as it only has ONE input.

So, I'm stuck with leaving my VCR on channel 3 and taking input from
the cable box.

I use a VCR+ because it not only turns on and off my VCR, BUT ALSO
switches the cable box.

I find the VCR+ interface incredibly clumsy and badly designed, but I
managed to make it work in my application.

I was delighted to find the program to compute VCR+ codes as my cable
company only prints about half of the ones I want to use. I have used
it four times in the week its been out.

The program is also useful for compressing slots. The VCR+ has a
limited number of time slots (14 I think. I've run out several times).
If you want to tape four half hours shows on the same channel, you have
to use up four valuable slots. However, if you can compute your own
codes, you can just do 1 two hour show and get 3 slots back

Don't presume tools have no value because they aren't useful to you.

---rick

Xref: sparky rec.video:15735 sci.electronics:22414
From: gpyoung@apgea.army.mil (Gerald P. Young <gpyoung>)
Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: An intro to HDTV
Summary: Will HDTV use Digital Audio Broadcasting Methods?
Keywords: Digital Audio Broadcasting
Date: 11 Jan 93 18:15:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: ATE1 S7=255 S11=55 V1 X1 S0=0

Will HDTV use DAB technology?

Where can I find the latest information on digital audio broadcasting?

Thanks,

Gerald Young
From: killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Videonics TU-1 Thumbs Up Editor
Date: 8 Jan 93 20:17:02 GMT
Organization: SPC Community Access System

Does the Videonics TU-1 (Thumbs Up) edit control have timing adjust?

Has anyone used the TU-1 with RC time code?  If so how accurate is it?

Has anyone used the TU-1 with the Videonics Video Titlemaker? The TU-1 has a 
function that lets you build titles from the Titlemaker into your edit list.

For under $200 and RC time code this is an interesting edit controler.  The 
question is how acurate is it.

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From: kamui@byron.u.washington.edu (Aaron Kam)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Airport X-Rays and Video Tapes
Date: 12 Jan 1993 07:20:38 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: byron.u.washington.edu

I've heard that passing floppy disks and hard drives through the
X-Ray machines that they use at the airport can damage the disks.
I was wondering if this also applies to other magnetic medias (I.E.  
video tapes, audio tapes, etc....)

Any info is appreciated.

Aaron
nobunaga@u.washington.edu