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Ogden Johnson III
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"Zerubbabel" <stevea@awesomenet.net> wrote:
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Britney
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Better yet, get a decent news feed that observes spam-cancels and
you'll never see most of this spam crap.
A lesson Zerubbabel hasn't learned, and thus his babble
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Pastor Frank
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Fri Sep 03, 2004 12:21 pm Post subject:
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"Ogden Johnson III" <oj3usmc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | "Zerubbabel" <stevea@awesomenet.net> wrote:
"joan" <r.ybnjca@qywbmjca.com> wrote
Britney
NEVER open any attachments with a .scr file type!
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you'll never see most of this spam crap.
A lesson Zerubbabel hasn't learned, and thus his babble
exacerbating the original spam.
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LASERandDVDfan
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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| Quote: | Betamax lost several years ago when Sony and Philips? stopped making
machines
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Philips never got involved with Beta. One reason: they were busy promoting the
old Video 2000 format with Grundig.
| Quote: | Of course the demise of VT
and Beta in particular suits the studios, since Beta was unaffected by
macrovision and DVD's generally have better copy protection.
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Beta was most certainly affected by MacroVision. In fact, some of the very
first tapes with MacroVision were released on Betamax usually through the MCA
Home Video label and the Walt Disney Home Video label during the mid 1980s and
up.
Contrary to popular belief, many Beta VCRs can and do react with MacroVision
with similar effects to VHS decks. Some decks react moderately, some don't
react very much at all, and some react to a high extreme.
I had a Sony SL-100 SuperBetamax VCR that would react to MacroVision by having
the picture fading in and out constantly.
Contrast this to my Akai VS-525U VHS hi-fi VCR, which doesn't flinch with
MacroVision at all.
| Quote: | The studios
also incorporated the vile region scam into DVD standards.
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Well, if there was no provision for "content protection," the studios wouldn't
even touch DVD, which meant that it would have died long ago if it didn't have
CSS, region coding, and MacroVision options.
These features would be a necessary evil, with exception to Australia. With
them, the consumer is crippled. Without them, the consumer may not be able to
enjoy a favorite movie on DVD as it likely would never have been released on
it.
Australia is a unique exception because region coding in DVD players were
banned there.
But, to cite an example. "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" and "Hero" are movies
that saw a DVD release in Asia during the time that North America was enjoying
a theatrical release of those films. This means that, without region coding,
these films could be bought from Asia and played at home with friends during a
time where people would be paying tickets at the box office to watch it.
Another is that many North American films enjoy a DVD release around the same
time that European markets get the theatrical release. A European tourist
could buy a DVD from the U.S. market and play it with friends in the U.K.
market while others there would normally have to go to the theatre.
This is how the minds of the movie business thinks. They do not trust the
customer and want to milk their product for all it's worth. DVD, without
content protections, is perceived as a direct threat to these people.
To them, without region coding, a movie from one territory could be brought
into another territory where the same filck was running in the theatre circuit
and could potentially threaten the box office earnings of that movie as a
result. This isn't necessarily the case in the real world, but the business
always assumes the worst and takes actions to combat this scenario as a result.
Lloyd Kaufman, of Troma Films fame, had commented that a lot of Hollywood
business people are not very nice, and I tend to agree with that. What they
wanted with DVD is one example. - Reinhart |
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LASERandDVDfan
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Tue Sep 14, 2004 7:45 pm Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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| Quote: | Who the hell still uses *Betamax*? :)
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Me, as I have an extensive collection of Betamax media that I still wish to
use. - Reinhart |
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GMAN
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:16 am Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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In article <ci6epd$7pb$3@titan.btinternet.com>, "R. Mark Clayton" <nospamclayton@btinternet.com> wrote:
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"ric" <nospam@home.com> wrote in message
That isn't what he meant.
Indeed.
Yes, Macrovision could be encoded onto a
commercial Betamax tape. However, if you dubbed a Macrovisioned
tape from one machine (either VHS or Beta) to a Beta deck, the
recording would not be affected by the Macrovision signal. It *would*
be if you were copying to a VHS deck.
On quite a few occasions my BETA to BETA dubs were affected by
Macrovision.
Later, my VHS to BETA dubs were likewise affected. It depended on the BETA
VCR being used. The blanket statement that BETA was unaffected was
incorrect.
VHS has AGC on the record circuit and is normally badly affected by
macrovision (spurious signals in the frame blanking interval).
Beta decks normally didn't have AGC, and were largely immune, although
obviously some material might still cause problems, just as macro-vision
causes problems on some projector TV's etc.
A vcr would not function without a AGC |
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GMAN
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Wed Sep 15, 2004 12:17 am Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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In article <4146DD18.FEEC5371@cam.ac.uk>, Robert Hunt <reh10@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | It's more to do with the 'Betamax' fair use law enshrined in the US in 1984
allowing the use of devices that are whole or part able to infringe
copyrights,
the fact they have non-infringing uses takes precedence hence their legality.
However, they could have picked a better name so when people lobby their
philistine congressman they're not mistaken in believing there's a bizarre
movement to resurrect an obsoleted video format.
They could have picked a MUCH better name. Not only is it nothing to do
with Betamax, but it's only relevant to Americans; people outside
America are unlikely to know of the legal decision so won't realise the
connection, and moreover won't know that the website is not aimed at
them until they've wasted time visiting it.
Yet due to international copywrite treaties etc its only a matter of time that |
it will affect you. |
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Steven V.A.
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Mon Sep 20, 2004 10:48 pm Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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laseranddvdfan@aol.com (LASERandDVDfan) wrote:
| Quote: | Betamax lost several years ago when Sony and Philips? stopped making
machines
Philips never got involved with Beta. One reason: they were busy promoting the
old Video 2000 format with Grundig.
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Beta was less popular in the EU. (If you compare it to the us)
Philips VCR and VCR-LP (a square box casette)
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/mikey/vcrtapes.html
.... were already sold from the mid (and late) seventies.
Greetings
Steven
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LASERandDVDfan
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Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:21 am Post subject:
Re: Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax! Why? |
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| Quote: | Beta was less popular in the EU. (If you compare it to the us)
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And the big reason why Beta and even Video 2000 failed against VHS in Europe
(or at least in GB): Thorn EMI.
Thorn EMI favored JVC. Thorn EMI also owned rental outlets in Europe, or at
least throughtout Great Britain. So, logically, content on VHS was more
abundant than content on Beta and V2000. People went towards a format that had
the content. - Reinhart |
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LASERandDVDfan
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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| Quote: | The RCA model no is VKT425.
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The VKT425 is a Hitachi OEM VCR made for Radio Corporation of America.
Please describe the controls hidden behind the lower right front door. -
Reinhart |
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WA Seattle
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Fri Oct 29, 2004 5:03 pm Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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LASERandDVDfan wrote:
| Quote: | The RCA model no is VKT425.
The VKT425 is a Hitachi OEM VCR made for Radio Corporation of America.
Please describe the controls hidden behind the lower right front door. -
Reinhart
ahhh, the secret door. The controls behind the door are |
Left:
NORMAL/SELECT (switch)
BAND
v ^ TUNING
SKIP
AFT OFF
Middle:
CLOCK
PROG
CHECK SET
ENTER
CLEAR
DIMMER
Right:
SPEED SP/LP/SLP (switch)
TRACKING (dial)
CAMERA/TUNER (switch) |
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LASERandDVDfan
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Tue Nov 02, 2004 10:45 am Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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| Quote: | Middle:
CLOCK
PROG
CHECK SET
ENTER
CLEAR
DIMMER
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Set the clock by pressing CLOCK and using the channel up/down keys to change
the settings.
You may have to set the day, then the hour, then minute. Use the channel
up/down keys to set these options, and press ENTER to confirm each setting.
After the clock is set, press PROG to set a record program on the VCR.
Generally, you have to set the VCR to record on the desired channel, then you
have to set the ON TIME and then the OFF TIME.
Set the channel you want, then press PROG and then set the ON time. This is
similar to setting the clock with the same steps involved. After you set the
ON time, you will then set the OFF time. Same steps here, too.
After programming, insert a cassette that's ready for recording and then press
TIMER on the front panel of the VCR.
I am not completely certain that these instructions will work as I don't have
the VCR. I am just merely going by what would be most likely in setting the
machine up for timer recording.
It would've been much easier, not to mention more accurate, if I had a VKT425
around here.
Ironically, I used to have a VKT425, but I got rid of it since I didn't need
it, having hi-fi VCRs.
Once you use hi-fi, it's hard to go back to a regular VCR. - Reinhart |
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WA Seattle
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Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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I have figured out how to program unattended recording with my
SelectaVision VCR,
based on comments that others posted in this newsgroup. Your help is
much appreciated.
But I can only record from channels 2 to 12. Is that an inherent limitation
of this model (they had only 12 channels in those days?), or is there a way
to get round it?
WAS
WA Seattle wrote:
| Quote: | I have an old RCA SelectaVision VCR but not the users manual.
I am trying to figure out if I can program it to record from TV at a
preset time, unattended.
Any ideas?
WAS
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WA Seattle wrote:
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LASERandDVDfan wrote:
The RCA model no is VKT425.
The VKT425 is a Hitachi OEM VCR made for Radio Corporation of America.
Please describe the controls hidden behind the lower right front
door. -
Reinhart
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LASERandDVDfan
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Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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| Quote: | But I can only record from channels 2 to 12. Is that an inherent limitation
of this model (they had only 12 channels in those days?), or is there a way
to get round it?
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Your VCR was designed with a rather archaic tuner. You have twelve channels to
tune into individual VHF and UHF channels manually for each.
I do not believe that your VCR is even cable-ready. If it was, its support
would be very limited.
One workaround is to use a separate tuner on the deck, like hooking up a
satellite receiver or on some cable boxes directly to the A/V input on the VCR,
or hook it up to the VHF antenna input and tune one of the channel presets to
whatever channel that the cable box or satellite receiver is using.
Another thing would be to relegate the VKT425 for playback duties only and use
a newer VCR with a modern tuner for everyday use. - Reinhart |
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WA Seattle
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Fri Nov 05, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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LASERandDVDfan wrote:
| Quote: | But I can only record from channels 2 to 12. Is that an inherent limitation
of this model (they had only 12 channels in those days?), or is there a way
to get round it?
Your VCR was designed with a rather archaic tuner. You have twelve channels to
tune into individual VHF and UHF channels manually for each.
I do not believe that your VCR is even cable-ready. If it was, its support
would be very limited.
One workaround is to use a separate tuner on the deck, like hooking up a
satellite receiver or on some cable boxes directly to the A/V input on the VCR,
or hook it up to the VHF antenna input and tune one of the channel presets to
whatever channel that the cable box or satellite receiver is using.
Another thing would be to relegate the VKT425 for playback duties only and use
a newer VCR with a modern tuner for everyday use. - Reinhart
OK, that confirms that I will not be able to record from channels beyond |
12,
using the tuner in this VCR.
The VCR is recording more or less fine from channels up to 12.
I have no cable box in the house --- the cable from my provider is
connected
directly to the VHF input on the VCR or on the TV set. I suppose there
is a box
up on the pole outside somewhere, shared by multiple houses on the street.
Thank you for the info. It's been very helpful.
WAS |
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LASERandDVDfan
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Sat Nov 06, 2004 7:31 am Post subject:
Re: RCA SelectaVision VCR instructions |
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| Quote: | I have no cable box in the house --- the cable from my provider is
connected
directly to the VHF input on the VCR or on the TV set. I suppose there
is a box
up on the pole outside somewhere, shared by multiple houses on the street.
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I'm talking about a set-top tuner that allows you to access the cable channels.
You may need to rent one from your cable company for use with your VCR. -
Reinhart |
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