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From: riyadth@boi.hp.com (Riyadth Al-Kazily)
Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:49:05 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company / Boise, Idaho

In article <4439@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In another of Sony's blunders, they used the name BetaCam more than once.  The
>first product was a home consumer camcorder, that recorded in the Beta format.
>It never did good and died.  In Sony's wisdom, the name got used again for a
>professional product that used Beta-like tape, but wasn't in the home Beta
>format.  The tape only lasted 20 minutes, was a different formulation, and
>separated the luminance and chrominance & recorded them on separate video
>tracks.

Wasn't the consumer camcorder line called BetaMovie?  I'm pretty sure that
I remember it that way, but I could be wrong.  I certainly don't remember
BetaCam associated with any consumer model equipment.


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From: kfsmith@vnet.ibm.com (Kirk Smith)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 10:27:45 EST
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Disc Quality?
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <1992Nov18.084536.14670@berlioz.nsc.com> Michael Werstlein writes:
>I just bought a laser disc player and am wanting to start
>a collection of movies.  As everyone knows, most discs
>average between $30 and $50.  I was just wondering if the
>discs that Columbia House sells are the same quality (video
>and sound) as the discs that are sold in stores?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mike Werstlein
>Go Portland Trail Blazers!!!
>

Mike:

The disks from Columbia House are the same ones available everywhere
else. It's not like that old record club days where there was fine print
about the record being exclusively manufactured for the Acme Record
Club. Kirk
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From: ccofjg@dct.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Horizontal Resolution
Date: 19 Nov 92 17:19:06 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Hi There

Can any one give me approximate values of horizontal resolution for the
following: -

NTSC
PAL
D2MAC
Future DIGITAL
LASERDISC
SVHS
BETA
CD-I
VHS
FMV CD-I

Thanks in advance
From: kfriedman@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Panasonic Gaoo vs SuperFlat
Date: 22 Nov 92 16:49:39 EST
Followup-To: rec.video
Organization:  Wright State University 

In article <1992Nov22.003540.22059@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>, earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earl
> 
> Interesting; I have yet to see a Panasonic 33" model down here in Los Angeles
> amongst the 6 stores I have been to while looking at TV sets in the last month
> or so.  I've only seen the 31" models ...
> 
>There is no 33" Panasonic in the U.S.,...well, really there is, but we just
measure the tube differently.  In the U.S. only that portion of the CRT that
contanins picture is allowed to be used in screen size specs.  In Canada and
many other countries the entire horizontal length of the tube (including the
"blank" or "black" area around the perimeter of the picture area) can be
included.  So, the 31" here is the 33" there.

	Jay 
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Subject: is there an 8mm standard
Reply-To: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:33:54 EST

-> My fiance' and I are wanting to send some video to her family in
-> Australia.  I know that there are different VHS standards between the
-> USA and OZ, but is the same true about 8mm?  I happen to own a Sony
-> 8mm video camcorder that is the same model that her brother has over
-> seas.  Would his camcorder be able to play back a tape made in my
-> camcorder?  If not, how much should I expect to have to spend to get
-> an 8mm tape transfered to a VHS tape of the correct format?


Ok so you're friends camera you said it's the same model as you'rs are
you sure ? If not it's probably not in the same system not sure what
system is being used in australia but it shouldn't be to expensive to do
a two hour tape should go for about thirty dollars canadian. I would do
it for you but i think you're in the states somewhere i'm in
mississauga. Remember first find out what system the camerea is working
under then if you have to do the transfer . Incase you don't know you
are ntsc .
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video,rec.video.production
Subject: Re: Computing Surround Sound; adding surround to home videos
Keywords: An odd question, but...
Date: 17 Nov 92 19:52:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.4443
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Nov16.051211.4024@foretune.co.jp> trebor@foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead) writes:
<fontana@iguana.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark Fontana) writes:
<
<>>It is a lot easier than you think.  You only really have to worry about
<>>two audio channels - left and right.  To output the center channel, you make
<>>the left and right channels equal.  To make the surround channel you change
<>>the phase (180 degrees) of the left or right channel.
<
<>Right.  This works, more or less.  I haven't got a real Dolby processor
<>yet, just the poor man's setup described here every few days.
<
<This is helpful, but being a computer (graphics) weenie, I'm a little
<confused by the meaning of "changing phase."  Can someone elucidate?
<What I'm really looking for is the mixing algorithms (eg: various'
<digital datastreams in, mixed datastreams out.)

As a teaching tool, we'll use a pure sine wave at 1 kHz.  As a reference point,
we'll use the positive peak of the sine wave to be 0 degrees.  If this sine
wave is sent to both the left and right channels, the left and right channels
are considered in phase (which also equals the center channel in this case).

For a 180 degree out-of-phase sine wave, take the positive peak of the sine
wave and now make it it negative peak.  The negative peak now becomes the
positive peak.  If you were to look at these waveforms on an oscilloscope,
the 180 degree sine wave is exactly upside-down from the reference sinewave.
That is the meaning of 180 degrees out-of-phase.  If you put the two signals
into the left and right channels, you now have the surround channel.  In a
perfect system, if you were to change the stereo amp to mono mode, you would
hear nothing, since the two signals cancel each other out.

Now, for the purpose of digital audio, if your audio is represented as signed
data, just invert the sign bit.  That will get you the required 180 phase
shift.  Keep in mind that you have to keep a copy of the original, send it
to one of the audio channels and the inverted data is sent to the other audio
channel.

If your audio is represented as unsigned data, then it is a tiny bit tougher.
You need to mathematically flip the represented audio around the mean center.
Working with signed audio is much better, and easier.

Hope this helps, a little bit.
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From: glen@Cayman.COM (Glen B. Glater)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Question about LUX rating
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:11:07 GMT
Distribution: rec.video
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge, MA

I know that this may be a FAQ, but I don't usually read this newsgroup.  

I've decided that I want to purchase a Sony 8mm camcorder, but I'm confused
about the lux rating.

What is a lux rating, and is it better for that value to be high or low?

Does anyone have any opinion, for or against, about the Sony equipment?

Please email responses to glen@cayman.com.

Thanks.

Glen
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From: GNICK@RCHVMP3.VNET.IBM.COM
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Playing S-VHS videotape on VHS equipment
Date: 20 Nov 92 14:48:29 GMT
Organization: The Internet

If I have a source videotape that was recorded in S-VHS format, and I
play it back on various combinations of equipment, what will be the
resulting quality (relative or absolute) of the image on the monitor?
Could someone fill in the right-hand column of the chart below giving
combinations of playback equipment (remember:  the source videotape is
S-VHS).  Are there any combinations that will not work with a S-VHS tape?
(Assume cabling is correct and not a detractor.)

+==========+==========+=================================================
| Playback | Playback | Resulting Image Quality, Compatibility, Etc.
| VCR      | Monitor  |
+==========+==========+=================================================
|S-VHS     |S-Video   | Super!  (this combination is what the high price
|          |          |          really pays for)
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
|S-VHS     |Standard  |
|          |newer TV  |
|          |using RCA |
|          |Video In  |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
|S-VHS     |Standard  |
|          |older TV  |
|          |using An- |
|          |tenna In  |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
|VHS       |Standard  |
|          |newer TV  |
|          |using RCA |
|          |Video In  |
+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
|VHS       |Standard  |
|          |older TV  |
|          |using An- |
|          |tenna In  |
+==========+==========+=================================================









Newsgroups: rec.video
From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
Subject: Re: My Pioneer CLD-3090 just died
Organization: none
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:25:40 GMT

In article <92322.001150SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET> Steve W Hill <SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET> writes:
>Well, not completely.  I've had it for 6 weeks.  The box is labeled
>CLD-3090/B, I'm pretty sure it's reconditioned.  Anyway,  three days
>ago I popped in my new copy of King Kong just to see how it looked
>before I went to bed.  Looks great, I thought, and the commentary audio
>track sounded interesting.  The next day I put the disc back in and
>the audio was fuzzy, crackling, with almost nothing registering on the
>VU on my mixer.  Audio from the TV speaker was the same.  I put in a CD,
>and I get NOTHING.  No sound at all.  BUT!  If I play a CD, there is
>no sound coming out, but when I press DISPLAY on the remote, the
>on-screen VU display is normal.  So I know that the player itself is
>READING the audio, just not putting it out.
>Any self-help advice or similar situations out there for me?  Obviously
>I'm taking the unit back.  But someone give me a shoulder to cry on
>about it.  :)

  Well, my 3070/B randomly failed to switch from side A to side B,
and (less often) wedged and would not give back the disc.  (It
gave it back just fine the next morning in the shop.)

  Also, when freezing something with the digital memory, the picture
is often quite a bit lighter and very low quality -- much worse than
my VHS freeze-field.

  It has been in the shop more than I have had it at home.  I suspect
it will be worn out before they figure out what is wrong with it.  It
feels like it was a big waste of money.

  The /B models probably were returned to Pioneer because they were
lemons the first time around, and re-sent to the field when Pioneer
couldn't discover the intermittent problems.

	Alan
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Subject: the little mermaid laserd
Reply-To: "tony camara" <tony.camara@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: rec
Date: 17 Nov 92 08:33:55 EST

-> -- Jeff Greenfield, ABC News
-> ---

Just trying to figure out what that's all about ? If you're really
interested in that little mermaid i can find out from my suppliers if
anything is available . I'm pretty sure the video tape version is no
longer available though . But if you like just leave a message and i'll
find out the disturbuter is just down the street . ..




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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: Stephen Jonke <jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Video on standard CD's?
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A732BDCF39015C5D@joe.gsfc.nasa.gov>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:07:43 GMT
Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:07:46 GMT

In article <Bxz2LB.n44@fc.hp.com> Bob Niland, rjn@FC.HP.COM writes:
>> Speaking of this, I noticed in the latest Radio Shack flyer that they're
>> touting something called "VES" (for Video Entertainment System)...
>
>Which sounds like yet-another-video-on-CD format.
>And I forgot CDTV in my list.
>What a mess.

VIS (I for "information")

It's a competitor to CD-I and from the bit that I played with it, I'm almost
certain it will be ignored by the populace just as CD-I has been -- there is
no market for "multimedia on your TV".  At best it will slow multimedia
development to a crawl (because the failure of both CD-I and VIS will make
companies pull out of the market) and at worst will completely kill it.

Steve
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From: dhs@cs.utexas.edu (Douglas H. Steves)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: XBR^2
Date: 18 Nov 1992 17:22:52 -0600
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: abyssinian.cs.utexas.edu

In article <71921114153917.0004861036NA2EM@mcimail.com> 0004861036@MCIMAIL.COM (James Millick) writes:
>
>  I asked about when we would be seeing a review of an XBR^2 model
>Sony. It turns out we have had one for review, but they were 
>completely unsucessful in setting it to 6500K and getting it to 
>track a grey scale. In my opinion, (not TPVs), Sony has a terrific
>CRT, but insists in mucking things up with their insistence on
>unswitchable Auto Tint, unswitchable Auto Color Correction [which
>it isn't], and not being switchable to 6500K.

When will this review appear in TPV? You imply that it will be favorable,
but with poor gray-scale tracking and an improper color temperature,
this would appear to go against the "party line".
(With regard to color temperature(s) on Sony products, the new 41 inch 
rear projection set is switchable from 10500 degrees to 8500 degrees.
You might say that they're getting warmer ... .)

Does TPV even have a reference direct view monitor these days?
They did, at one time, recommend the Toshiba IDTV (3299), but this
monitor is no longer sold by Toshiba.

Doug
From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: Does Macrovision cause brightness fluctuations?
Keywords: Macrovision
Date: 18 Nov 92 05:26:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: vidiot.4448
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: na
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Nov16.141052.11026@cs.wisc.edu> brianp@ssec.wisc.edu (Brian Paul) writes:
<
<I have a Mitsubishi U53 VCR.  I've noticed that many prerecorded tapes that I
<rent and buy don't maintain a constant brightness as they play; the picture
<will go dim or brighten every 20-30 seconds.  I suspect this is due to being
<copy protected with Macrovision.  Am I right?  If so, is there anything I can
<do to fix the problem?
<
<I just bought the special lbx collector's edition of the Star Wars trilogy and
<while watching TESB and ROTJ the fluctuating brightness really annoyed me.
<Also, the Star Wars (ANH) tape has a lot of glitches, which for some reason
<appear whenever there is a bright flash or loud noise such as an explosion
<or laser blast.  I think I'm going to exchange my copy for a new one.

It isn't the VCR, but the TV that is having trouble with the bright Macrovision
pulses.  Welcome to the world of Macrovision NOT causing problems (that's what
the Macrovision people claim).
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From: kho@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kelvin.ho)
Newsgroups: rec.video,misc.consumers
Subject: Toshiba CF3272? Information/Features?
Date: 23 Nov 92 21:15:41 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: na
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories


Do you know what features are with the Toshiba CF3272A TV?
I've only seen 3262 and 3266 on the showroom. The major difference
between these two is that 3266 has PIP but 3262 doesn't.
Does 3272 also have PIP or not?

How do I get a feature list on Toshiba TVs?
Is that a 800 number I can call for sales brochures ?

Thanks.

Kelvin
Newsgroups: rec.video
From: bladin@wam.umd.edu (Ilana J. Getz)
Subject: Looking for shoe adapter
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 00:15:37 GMT

Hey there...

I have a portable light that I bought originally to use with a consumer
grade camcorder (a V5000) that I now want to use with a pro-grade
camcorder (EVW-300). My question is...

Does anyone know of an adapter for the different mounting shoes?

Thanks!!!

Dave Bittner
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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: gre253@mis.csiro.au (Steven Green (+61 6 276 6813))
Subject: Re: YAMAHA DSP-E300: Help Me Enjoy It!
Organization: CSIRO ITS
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 04:30:27 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.101407.7491@hparc0.aus.hp.com> doug@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Doug Parsons) writes:
>
>Can someone tell me how to reset the DSP's parameters back to default, or
>if not, how can I set them up for my room (20'x14', with the center speaker
>in the middle of the longest wall)?
>
>ta 
>douginoz

I'm not sure you could do this to ALL the settings. But on the DSP-A1000
individual setting stop on the factory defaults. E.g. if you change the
front effect level to -6db then press ( and hold down ) the increase front
effect button on the remote control - the setting increases in jumps of 1db
until it hits 0db ( the factory settting ) and stops. To increase it from
there you have to release the button and press it again.

All settings on the A1000 seem to do the same. Hope this helps.

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Newsgroups: rec.video
From: dave@88open.org (Dave Cline)
Subject: Direct view 35" TVs
Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd.
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 23:23:53 GMT

I'm looking for opinions on various models and makers of 35"
direct view TVs.  Also, I'd be interested in mail-order experiences
on items this large and fragile.

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From: dewey@centerline.com (Devan F. dewey)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LBX Raiders quality?
Followup-To: rec.video
Date: 17 Nov 1992 16:30:45 GMT
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 140.239.3.212

In article <howarth.721977518@proto>, howarth@med.uth.tmc.edu (Jack W.
Howarth) wrote:
> 
> 
>   I just picked up the new LBX version of Raiders of the Lost Ark on LaserDisk
> and was a bit let down by the quality. It seems there is some color noise in
> the black bands and the over picture is a bit washed out compared to The
> Last Crusade. Anyone have any opinion on there copies? 

My letterbox version of Raiders is stunning. Maybe you should exchange
yours as defective.

-Devan
                             
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          CenterLine Software | dewey@centerline.com
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: Re: LD-101: A Pornographic Standardy
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:37:11 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <17464@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley) writes:
<Anshu Prasad has written about his problems with the Video Standard disc
<getting classified as porno by Canada Customs...
<
<Anshu, since you live in Ottawa, why don't you phone up your friendly MP and
<tell them about this? Perhaps s/he can stir up a bit of shit. The whole
<episode is totally absurd. If I was you, I would also phone my friendly local
<"tabloid" newspaper. I'm sure this would be a very choice tidbit, it might
<even gain you national attention!

Excellent ideas, all of them.  Make fools of the government.  I'd sure like
to be able to do that to U.S. Customs.
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From: guest@voyager3.sdsu.edu (Guest User)
Newsgroups: rec.video
Subject: WANTED : CABLE BOX *****
Date: 20 Nov 1992 07:07:00 GMT
Organization: San Diego State University, College of Sciences
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Any cable box in working condition. Preferably with remote.
Any suggestion on finding a used one will be appreciated.

Thanks

S

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