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["(ADVERTISEMENT) Consumer Information Series VCR: stereo or hi-fi? You can hear the difference, by Dr. William R. Short Project Engineer The first article in this came when manufacturers divided the mately must reproduce the recorded series discussed the sound track into two channels for stereo sound. importance of audio in recording. While this was an improvement, your video system. As a using the same overall track width to hold Bose\u00ae has spent the last 20 years de\u00ac fellow videophile, I want to twice the amount of program material veloping unique Direct\/Reflecting\u00ae elaborate on that topic, especially since resulted in a noise level that was twice as speakers\u2014components that are capable there seems to be much con- of filling your entire listening room, fusion about the difference between stereo VCR and hi-fi not just a limited section of it, with exciting, lifelike sound. It may be stereo VCR. the \\\"widescreen sound\u201d you When video tape recorders experience at the movies . . . or the rich sonic ambience that were first introduced, the engi\u00ac surrounds you in the concert neering emphasis was on picture reproduction quality. After all, high as before. The inherent limitations of We invite you to experience there was nothing new about the track width demanded further Bose speaker sound at any of recording audio on magnetic research. our authorized dealers. They are tape. In the first VCR tapes, a now playing the Bose Music very narrow track\u2014about half At last, big breakthroughs in VCR sound Video\u2014a hi-fi VCR program the width of a track on a standard were realized with the creation of hi-fi which demonstrates the break\u00ac audio cassette\u2014was allotted for stereo tapes and decks\u2014first Beta Hi-Fi, throughs we\u2019ve discussed. We audio. To make matters worse, then VHS Hi-Fi. Both systems use nearly think you\u2019ll enjoy hi-fi VCR. And VCR recording speed was about the entire width of the tape for audio sig\u00ac we think that Bose speakers will half the 1% ips used in audio nals, without affecting video signals which help you enjoy it the most. cassette recording. Naturally, are recorded across the same area. the sound quality was not very good. For more information on Bose The true significance ofthese technolog\u00ac products, and a list of authorized dealers, When VCR\u2019s became available for ical advances is the dramatic improvement please write: Bose Corporation, Dept. VM, home use, audio quality still was not of they can make in your home entertainment 10 Speen Street, Framingham, MA 01701. major concern. One reason was that peo\u00ac experience. But the full potential of the ple used their VCR\u2019s primarily for \u201ctime technology cannot be realized unless Dr. Shortholds an Sc.D. in Electrical Engi - shifting\u2019\u2019 network programming (frequently every component in your system mea\u00ac neering from MIT. broadcast with poor audio quality) for sub\u00ac sures up to stringent standards. And, sequent viewing. speakers are the components that must meet the highest standards, since they ulti- Today, however, VCR audio quality is playing a larger role. The advent of stereo TV, music videos and a wider selection of prerecorded material provides better lis\u00ac tening options. And, of course, the sound capabilities of VCR hardware have kept pace with developments in software, in both VMS and Beta formats. Actually, the first advance in VCR sound additional information, circle No. 37 on Reader Service Card.","","HOW TO BE THE BEST MAN A WITH A CAMERA guests wedding in the family is a In addition, experienced cameramen are unique event\u2014so if never without a \u201cditty box\\\" containing an you\u2019re taping it, you get assortment of useful connectors, fuses, only one chance. Half\u00ac adapters, and tools that can, on occasion, way through the cere\u00ac be crucial. An example is that inexpensive mony is not the time to adapter that converts three-pronged discover you\u2019ve just run grounded plugs into the more conventional out of tape, your one-and-only battery has two-pronged variety. Since you usually died, or the floodlights have bumed-out won\u2019t know the type, number, or location bulbs. of the electrical outlets in the wedding loca\u00ac The biggest distinction between tion until the wedding day, also carry an amateur and professional photographers arsenal of extension cords, multitaps, (or videographers) is their degree of prep\u00ac power strips, and adapters. aration. Never assume anything. Make an u extensive list of equipment you\u2019ll need long Setting Up s before you arrive for the shoot (and take Arriving a couple of hours before the ^_more equipment than you may end up wedding (at least!) should give you ample using\u2014just in case; see the checklist opportunity to case the place and find out following page). where all the electrical outlets are. You can also use that time to lay down extension cords\u2014but be careful about where you place them. Avoid laying any cables across ODERICKWOODC","peace). It\u2019s especially important that you \u201csecond unit\u201d fiiend make the shot for you. fresh bulbs during the ceremony will usual\u00ac meet this gentleman before the wedding, The second-unit camera can also be invalu\u00ac ly guard against this catastrophe. Most get his permission to tape the ceremony, able in shooting outtakes of the arriving pros keep a small written log of the length and tell him in detail how you will do it. guests. Needless to say, it will make edit\u00ac of time bulbs are lit during each shoot, Another reason to attend the rehears\u00ac ing much easier if your second-unit man is discarding them long before they expire al is technical. Since it\u2019s difficult to obtain using your format of video gear. from old age on their own. good-quality audio of the bride and groom exchanging their vows during the wedding, The Ceremony Regardless of the ceremony\u2019s length, a better procedure is to record the audio at Be ready when the ceremony begins. there is simply no way an extended wed\u00ac the rehearsal instead. Most clergymen will The best location for the camera record\u00ac ding can be successfully shot using a hand\u00ac take the couple through the entire cere\u00ac held camera. A sturdy tripod is essential. mony at the rehearsal, so you can record ing the vows is behind and just to the left or Select a position that gives you the shots that essential audio and dub it onto the right side of the clergyman. The camera you want without being obtrusive. finished tape later. should look over his shoulder at the bride and groom when they reach the altar. Us\u00ac Once the ceremony begins, pre-set the Once you\u2019ve got a good idea of how the ing the zoom, follow them as they move up camera for a focal length that includes both location will look, including any special in\u00ac the aisle to take their positions before the the couple and the minister in a neat, but stallations you\u2019ll need to make, it\u2019s a good holy man. not overly tight, framing. Lock the tripod idea to outline the sequence of shots you head down carefully and without vibration intend to make. If you\u2019re so inclined, you It\u2019s important that you see their faces (a fluid-head tripod helps a lot here\u2014 can even create a \u201cstoryboard\u201d\u2014comic- and observe their expressions during the they\u2019re expensive but can be rented for the book-like pictures that previsualize the ceremony. If there isn\u2019t enough natural occasion) and then crouch or sit down. composition of each shot\u2014so that you and light available to illuminate their faces, pro\u00ac There\u2019s no need to keep your eye glued to your assistants have a clear idea of all the vide supplemental illumination\u2014but not the viewfinder throughout the cere\u00ac essential shots that will give the finished the intimidating beam of a head-on mony\u2014that can be distracting too. A more tape a smoothly flowing continuity. spotlight: one or two floodlights on stands, efficient way to monitor the taping is using aimed at an angle to the ceiling, should get a small color monitor located just below the The Big Day rid of any harsh shadows. Turn these lights tripod, plugged into the video output of the Be sure to arrive early enough to set up on before the procession has started down VCR. It can be operated either by battery the aisle to avoid jarring the congregation or AC, depending on what equipment you the equipment\u2014as well as to capture some or disturbing the ceremony. own and whether there\u2019s a convenient AC pre-wedding vignettes. Many amateurs outlet near the camera position. At an forget that the story of a wedding day in\u00ac Floodlamps have been known to bum appropriate moment during the ceremony, cludes those little events, like the arriv\u00ac out\u2014sometimes with a loud bang. Using it is permissible to pan off of the bride and al of the bride and groom and their en\u00ac groom and shoot a few reaction shots of tourages. The bride usually arrives with their parents sitting immediately behind her maid of honor and flower girls, while them. Pan slowly and smoothly, holding it the groom will be with his best man and just long enough to get the shot, then re\u00ac other friends. turn slowly to your original framing of the bride and groom. Since you\u2019ll be busy with other things, it\u2019s often a good idea to bring in an assistant If you enlist the clergyman\u2019s assistance cameraman to serve as your \u201csecond unit, \u201d beforehand, he may agree to wear a small assigning him to get the minor candid clip-on microphone during the ceremony. shots. Trying to make a complete record of These units, worn by network anchormen, an elaborate wedding with a single camera are small and unobtrusive and are usually just isn\u2019t professional, since it can\u2019t be sensitive enough to pick up his words as everywhere at once. For example, if well as the reaction lines of the bride and you\u2019ve got your one-and-only camera groom. Clip the unit on carefully so the locked onto a tripod near the front of the audio won\u2019t be obscured by the sound of venue, after you\u2019ve shot the procession moving cloth or ruffled vestments. coming down the aisle and taking their Another audio backup: place a good audio\u00ac places at the altar (a mandatory wedding cassette recorder with a built-in omni\u00ac shot), it\u2019s nice to edit in a quick view of the directional microphone on the floor be\u00ac assembled guests as seen from the back of tween clergyman and couple. Carefully the church. To get that shot, you must placed, it shouldn\u2019t get in the way of the either abandon your spot at the front of the ceremony and can provide you with an in\u00ac place and rip down to the back (creating a surance policy against your other audio visible disturbance as you go), or have that sources going bad. Weddings held out\u00ac doors present special audio problems. THE PRO'S GHFXKLIST Make sure your microphones have wind- guards or foam socks to squelch any \u25a1 Camera(s) \u25a1 Assorted AC extension cords annoying interference. \u25a1 Portable VCR(s) \u25a1 AC \u201ccheaters\u201d \u25a1 Batteries \u25a1 Audio extension cords Depending on the denomination of the \u25a1 Battery recharger\/AC adapter \u25a1 Earphones or headset couple, there may be additional cere\u00ac \u25a1 Tripod \u25a1 Small color TV monitor monies (like signing the register) to be \u25a1 Lights (on stands and on video \u25a1 Super High Grade videotape performed\u2014and recorded\u2014which take \u25a1 Gaffer tape place elsewhere in the house of worship. camera) \u25a1 RF cords, video and audio cables Here\u2019s another job for your second-unit \u25a1 Lighting stands \u25a1 AC multitap or power strip man. You can keep your main equipment in \u25a1 Boom microphones \u25a1 Portable audio-cassette recorder place while he shoots this secondary \u25a1 Clip-on microphones (Lavaliers) \u25a1 Mobile equipment cart (optional) footage, leaving you to resume taping the \u25a1 Spare batteries for microphones return of the bride and groom to the altar and their wedding march out of the church. continued on page 144","PERFORMANCE WJCAN TRUST FROMTHENAMETDU Today, there are hun- ^ dreds of video products, \u25a0 tapes and accessories to 1 choose from. All from dif- ferent manufacturers with different quality standards. ^ But there\u2019s still one way to get the best combination of value and performance. Go ''' rii ir hlonU x\/iHon tano tnr with thp namp vni l knnw ,^ , of your video system to any\u00ac Quality and Super High Grade. thing less than the name you Our video accessories put on an equally impressive perfor\u00ac know best? See your RCA mance. Whether you\u2019re a first- dealer today. year rookie or a video veteran, \u25a0\u25a0BmflbB# I Video Acccceessisories","ODDD","Things with asking the floor person for a few tips, keep in mind that he\u2019s there to make sales, your VCR not friends. So it\u2019s best to arm yourself with facts before making your move. salesman Towers of Babble won\u2019t I spent several days hitting Manhattan\u2019s T tellyouhe video store was selling VCRs VCR hot spots and returned with enough like there was no tomorrow. It was information to write a CIA survival guide the week after Christmas in Man\u00ac for search-and-destroy missions in the hattan, and this midtown site was toughest electronics district this side of unloading a variety of RCA, Mitsubishi, Hong Kong. Take the aforementioned Sony, and Sanyo machines without so midtown outlet. I had stood by inconspic\u00ac much as a sales pitch. In a half-hour\u2019s time uously watching how easily others became the store sold four VCRs, each with no VCR owner statistics before I stepped up more than three minutes\u2019 conversation to the counter myself. Here\u2019s what and explanation. ensued: Things weren\u2019t always this frantic. In \u201cI\u2019m looking for a VCR. And I was the days when the VCR buyer was an wondering if you could answer a few ques\u00ac oddball (who was probably the first on the tions. For instance, what\u2019s the difference block with a microwave oven and elec\u00ac between Beta and VHS?\u201d tronic garage-door opener too), there was time for chatting. The price for even a \u201cWe\u2019ve got them both\u2014Beta and VHS, \u2019\u2019 moderately featured VCR back then was the salesclerk said. \u201cWhich one do you also well past the $1000 mark. But now, like?\u201d with VCR prices dropping under $500\u2014 and in some cases under $200\u2014video \u201cI\u2019m not sure.\u201d chitchat isn\u2019t worth the effort for most \u201cWell, some people like Beta, others salesfolk. like VHS.\u201d \u201cWhich do you like?\u201d That can make things rough on today\u2019s \u201cOh, I like them both. One\u2019s just as good VCR buyer. You won\u2019t always get the as the other.\u201d whole story from the salesman. You have \u201cHow do you feel about 8mm?\u201d I to read the magazines, query your friends, \u201cLike it lots. \u201d S and then dive head first into a confrontation The conversation didn\u2019t go much fur\u00ac ther. It didn\u2019t need to. He told me I with some saleshand who was probably to look over their price list while he took care of another customer who didn\u2019t want -j selling shoes before he was manhandling to talk so much. 5 video gear. While there\u2019s nothing wrong This was what he should have told me: that the differences between VHS and Beta run deeper than the faster recording speed of Beta (which according to its mak\u00ac ers allows it to produce a better picture) and the different ways the two formats lace BY MARTIN PORTER","the tape around the tape heads. What real\u00ac 7 LEARNED A due respect to the few good salesmen, the i ly matters is whether your friends are Beta LESSON IN THAT great majority can\u2019t honestly answer ques\u00ac j owners with whom you can swap tapes, or VIDEO BOUTIQUE. tions like: (1) Do I really need a remote : whether your local tape-rental shop stocks NEVER TRUST A control? (2) Do I need LED displays? (3) enough tapes in the Beta format to make VIDEO SALESMAN Do I need 8-event\/2-week programming? ! such a buy worthwhile. If you are buying a WHO LOOKS TOO (4) Do I need front or top loading? (5) Do I i VCR just to record off the air, neither of CLASSY TO BE A need a portable or tabletop VCR? These these will make much difference. But then VIDEO SALESMAN.\u2019 are all options you must consider for I it is important to know that while Beta yourself. And here are some suggested j brings a measurable improvement in pic\u00ac \u201cWhat do you have?\u201d ways to look at them: j ture quality, VHS offers a cost savings with \u201cWe have some real nice two-head units i its longer tape lengths (eight hours with that you might like.\u201d (1) Are you lazy? Do you mind getting the longest tape at the slowest speed, as I learned several lessons in that video out of your seat to change channels? Do , opposed to Beta\u2019s five). 8mm, on the other boutique. (1) Never trust a video salesman you enjoy watching commercials on your l hand, only allows a maximum recording who looks too classy to be a video sales\u00ac home videotapes and thus don\u2019t need , time of 90 minutes and has yet to prove man. (2) Never let someone talk specs to such features as visual search? You need a | itself as a replacement for either of the you unless you can make a visual compari\u00ac remote control only if you expect to do a lot j half-inch formats. son. (3) Find out what a store has in stock of picture shuffling without budging from j first, then start asking questions. And what So what\u2019s a VCR customer to do? You should you know about the number of your seat. i might try more of a boutique atmosphere, heads on a VCR? The more, the better? (2) Do you like the high-tech look? Is it someplace where the sales clerks know a Well, yes and no. | thing or two about video and have the time In general, the more heads you have, important that your VCR clock and counter j to answer questions. Prices tend to be a bit the better your VCR will function with spe\u00ac have digital readouts? That\u2019s about all | higher as a result. Then again, the informa\u00ac cial effects. In other words, two heads are that\u2019s important here. Do make sure the , tion isn\u2019t necessarily that much better\u2014at directed specifically to the chores of re\u00ac tuner\/timer comes with a tape counter of | least, given my experience at another mid\u00ac cording and playback while the additional some kind, though. i town spot. heads are designed for tasks such as still ' frame, visual search, and slow motion. You (3) How many programs do you plan to { This Week's Specialization might not care whether your still-frame tape each week or during a two-week vaca\u00ac , picture has no noise bars sliding through tion? Do you want to forget about watching This store \u201cspecializes\u201d in video. It ca\u00ac the middle; you may be perfectly satisfied if TV altogether and simply let the VCR do ters mainly to the yuppie set that doesn\u2019t the picture looks noisy when you are the time shifting for you? In short, how quite trust paying retail at nearby visually searching for the appropriate much programmability do you need? (Up to Bloomingdales but fears being ripped off at frame. a year\u2019s worth is available. But does any\u00ac a store that specializes in \u201ccash and carry\u201d Don\u2019t believe video salespeople who say one really need it?) transactions. What you pay for attention at you need more heads to satisfactorily re\u00ac boutique video shops you often sacrifice in cord at the faster or slower speeds. And (4) Where are you going to put your selection. This shop had five VCRs to don\u2019t be sold on specs alone. If you are VCR? If it is to be in a rack or cabinet, is choose firom\u2014one under $500, a couple looking at numbers, just make sure your there enough room (at least three inches) around $750 and the other two over $1000. VCR carries at least 40dB in video signal- for a top loader to load and eject tapes? If The salesman looked the part too. With his to-noise ratio and 240 lines of horizontal not, or if you plan to stack something on top stylish suit and helmet-cut hairdo, he could resolution. Then have the salesman demo of it, you need a front-loading unit. have passed for a Wall Street hotshot. But the two units side by side so you can try to what he really knew about VCRs could detect the difference. Try to use your own (5) Are you going to make on-location have fit into the inside pocket of a thin tape and make sure the VCR isn\u2019t attached videos with a camera? Are you going to wallet. to any signal-processing device that would take your VCR around on trips? Portables improve resolution or enrich colors. cost more. Don\u2019t buy one unless you need Right off the bat he tried to sell me on The monitor to which the VCR is it, or don\u2019t have the shelf space for a table- specs. He compared the signal-to-noise attached should preferably be similar to the top model. ratio of one machine against that of one in your home. If possible, recreate another. Ditto for horizontal resolution. I your home viewing environment. That Where the quality salesman can help have to admit that the numbers sounded doesn\u2019t mean move in with your couch, but most is in matching needs to budget. His impressive, although he didn\u2019t happen to at least make sure the overhead lighting is job is to help you consider value versus have the competitive models in the store equivalent and, if you intend to operate the cost. What this means is that he should be for an eyeball comparison. machine from across the room, that the able to quickly add up the number of fea\u00ac remote control will stretch the full length tures and frills a given VCR provides, di\u00ac \u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to figure out is whether (if it\u2019s the wired type). vide it by the price, and figure out if it is or not I need more than two heads, \u201d I said, Ultimately, any VCR buy has to take indeed a better buy than other compatible looking for a straight answer. your way of life into account, and that is machines in stock. He should also be where no VCR salesman can help. With all straight with you about similar machines \u201cTwo heads are better than none,\u201d he sold under different brands with different countered. pricetags. This may be news to you, but just as auto makers and cigarette pur- 1 didn\u2019t laugh. \u201cAre they better than veyors repackage the same products four?\u201d under different brand names, Vf^R manu- facturers do the same thing. \u201cYou really don\u2019t need four heads, to be honest.\u201d Much of this is due to original equipment manufacturing (OEM) practices. Hitachi, \u201cThen why do they make four-head for instance, sells its products to RCA units?\u201d which, in turn, sells it under its own brand name. Matsushita, which manufactures \u201cWell, four heads are better for some under its own Panasonic and Quasar applications.\u201d brands, also manufactures OEM products for GE, Magnavox, Canon, and others\u2014 \u201cSuch as?\u201d although the marketing companies main\u00ac \u201cRecording at slower speeds, things like tain that machines are built to their own that.\u201d specifications. \u201cDo you have any four-head sets that I can check out?\u201d Still, an eagle eye for button placement \u201cSorry, we\u2019re all out.\u201d","HuiKamaniaj THE The Best of the WWF Voh T, \u2605 OFF1CI AL^ WORLD\u2019S MOST Bloopersi Bleeps & Bodyslams! EHTERrAWINO SPORT IS NOW ON VIDEO Now Available at a Video Store Near You! CASSETTE! each SUGGESTED RETAIL ILXXXV EVART ENTERPRISES, INC. All Rights Reserved.","and feature combinations can save you a 8mm cassettes as well as the lack of rental the counter from a dealer you can trust I couple of bucks on the same machine. One titles. Be particularly wary if he says that with your hard-earned cash. | good way to make comparisons is on support is \u201con the way\u201d\u2014never trust a paper\u2014stack the features of one model\u2019s salesman who doubles as a fortune teller. As a result, you have no other choice but | spec sheet against the other; if everything to resort to consumer guerilla tactics: it\u2019s matches, odds are they are the identical Stereo Definitions always best to pay by check or credit card machine. There is no tried-and-true way to Another big choice has nothing to do (though big-city discounters tend to prefer do this, but the salesman has some respon\u00ac cash only). You can cancel an order using sibility to explain that a four-head stereo with the picture but rather with the sound. both. This assures you that, in the event remote-control unit from Quasar is identi\u00ac Quality audio will cost you extra. Although your new VCR doesn\u2019t work, you will be cal to the one he has advertised for $50 the new Hi-Fi models offer near-digital- guaranteed a new box from the dealer in\u00ac more fr^m Panasonic. quality sound, they also carry high stead of the following refrain: \u201cYou\u2019ll have pricetags. to send it to Secaucus.\u201d Ultimately, a lot of this responsibility will fall on your shoulders. You should, for in\u00ac As for VHS split-track stereo VCRs, If you think that sounds a little paranoid, stance, make sure that if the model number there isn\u2019t all that much difference in terms consider this tale from the Naked City: A isn\u2019t current (the only way to verify this is of audio quality between mono and dual\u00ac friend of mine recently bought a brand-new by watching the ads and reading the maga\u00ac channel video sound. In other words\u2014 VHS Hi-Fi deck from a dealer he didn\u2019t zines) you shouldn\u2019t be paying top doUar for don\u2019t confuse VHS stereo with VHS Hi-Fi. know. The price was right and so was the the product. Also, keep an eye out for the The specs on split-track stereo units hard\u00ac dealer\u2019s location. He paid with American new Korean VMS machines that hit the ly approach those of Hi-Fi units, though Express. Upon getting the unit home, he U.S. this spring. The Korean manufactur\u00ac they do at least give you the necessary discovered that the Hi-Fi heads were in\u00ac ers are just jumping into this business after jacks to tap your VCR into your audio operative. When he brought the unit back reaching a licensing agreement with JVC system. You don\u2019t run into this problem to the dealer, he was informed that it was for its VHS technology. The machines are with Beta since there never was such a \u201chis problem\u201d and that he had to \u201creturn it full of frills and cheap, although they have thing as a Beta stereo machine (excepting a to the manufacturer for repairs.\u201d yet to be lab tested. If you are only going to one-shot attempt with Dolby C by play rented tapes, you might also explore Marantz). The Beta folks went straight to Fortunately, my friend remembered how much you can save by buying one of Hi-Fi as soon as they could. If audio is that he had charged the purchase on his the new V()P (P for play-only) units being important to you, Hi-Fi is your best bet\u2014 credit card and, being the crafty sort he is, introduced. although you may want to wait until the he informed \u201cMr. Goodbuy\u201d that if he price premium on this feature comes fur\u00ac didn\u2019t exchange the defective unit then and And what about the new 8mm format? ther down. there, he would cancel the charge and keep Get assertive with this one when you talk the unit too. It didn\u2019t take more than a few to your salesman. Don\u2019t let him sell you on Speaking of price, if you are buying from minutes fcM: him to get another box up from \u201cnewness\u201d alone. If he is up-front with an established dealer, you should have no the storeroom. you, he should tell you about the limited problem. 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And that makes it an More than 900 up-to-the-minute, game descriptions, must-have ratings and reference for other important gung-ho gamers and points of passionate players! Yesy Vm game to check it out! Send me EG's 1984 SOFTWARE ENCYCLOPEDIA (at $3.95 + $1.00 postage and handling for each copy ordered) right away! Name_____ Address_!_ City_State_Zip. Number of copies ordered:- Payment (at $4.95 per copy) enclosed:- All orders must be prepaid. Please make check or money order payable to Reese Communications Inc. MAIL TO: ELECTRONIC GAMES SOFTWARE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 460 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001","T_M_his seems to be the sea\u00ac now seemingly forever trapped in that Disney, always a perfectionist, put in seven-year theatrical re-release schedule long hours on the new project, driving son for putting theatrical gems into video that introduces Disney classics to each workers as hard as he drove himself. He settings. Hot on the heels of MGMTiJA\u2019s new generation\u2014is a story in itself. was willing to spend a fortune on the finest release of Gone with the Wind, Disney That\u2019s because it is a landmark in the equipment and allow animators weeks, Home Video has done something pro\u00ac animator\u2019s art as well as the product of a even months simply to experiment with gram-conscious observers have hoped for genuine American visionary: Walt Disney. new techniques. It was exhilarating to since its announcement of a \u201cClassics\u201d line work for someone who valued creativity, starting with the not-so-major release of Snows of Yesteryear but it was also exhausting. After ex\u00ac Robin Hood some months back. Disney After agonizing over Smom; White and the periencing all those late-night sessions, it\u2019s has gone into the vault and come out with a no wonder Disney\u2019s animators planned to video version of Pinocchio\u2014rated with Seven Dwarfs and stumbling through all the unionize\u2014and actually struck the studio | Fantasia and Snow White as one of old pitfalls of full-length animation for the first the following year. Walt\u2019s trio of great feature-length master\u00ac time, Disney and his animators were re\u00ac pieces. warded with rave reviews. But Disney Describing Disney\u2019s pursuit of excel- \u201cg vowed to make his next project even bet\u00ac lence, animator Ward Kimball recalls that For the moment, the Disney people ter, with more liquid and lifelike animation, six months into the Pinocchio project Dis- emphatically state that no other feature- more drama, and an even more dazzling ney came up with \u201ca different approach for g length cartoons are slated for video, array of characters, backgrounds, and ac\u00ac the story\u2014so all the work we had done for * although they will unleash another seven tion sequences. the first sk months was thrown out and we ^ \u201cLimited Edition\u201d collections of cartoon had to start over again. And this was typical shorts this summer. But Pinocchio\u2014until by Ron Smith of Walt, compared to present-day produc- -\u00a7 ers whose bottom line is money. Walt al- \u00a3","ways said, \u2018I can\u2019t take it with me, the only eyed gaze. He takes in everything Get Happy fun I\u2019m ever gonna have is right here, with a child\u2019s sense of amazement, his making these pictures, and I\u2019m gonna make mouth hanging open in surprise. Like most But along with real or imagined terrors, \u2019em right!\u2019 \u201d children he is awkward, laughed at for his clumsiness, and prey to the adults around joys are an important part of childhood\u2014 For the right Pinocchio voice Disney him. chose child actor Dick Jones. Jones had and of Pinocchio. In fact, viewed on cas\u00ac amassed an impressive collection of \u201cas a One reason why this film makes such an boy\u201d credits. In films starring Fredric impression on kids is that they can identify sette instead of in a theater, Pinoc- March, Tyrone Power, Cary Grant, and with the hero, and with so many vivid, others he was the one who, in flashbacks, often frightening moments. There\u2019s Mon\u00ac chio's happy scenes will stand out and its played the characters \u201cas a boy.\u201d For a stro, of course, splashing through a bril\u00ac boy, the Disney studio was a dreamland. liant Disney sea of purple and blue, the darker ones will seem just a bit less But it was a workplace too, and Jones re\u00ac never-ending lacework of foam splashing in members the Disney penchant for perfec\u00ac the air, drool cascading around each fear\u00ac intense. tion. In an ocean sequence, the crew tried some tooth. There\u2019s also Stromboli, every all kinds of techniques to get Pinocchio to child\u2019s image of a frighteningly large adult Animator Eric Larsen, now teaching sound as if he were speaking underwater. whose hand can cover a boy\u2019s head and \u201cThey almost drowned me on that. They whose huge lips and teeth can gobble a animation techniques at the Disney studio, put me on my back and poured water in my child up. And there are the vivid scenes at mouth and almost drowned me. \u201d Pleasure Island. recalls, \u201cWe still look back at it as one of To get an authentic happy feel for the Disney animator Ollie Johnston: \u201cI think the most technically perfect pictures we songs, young Jones had to act the role of Pleasure Island is one of the scariest se\u00ac Pinocchio, not just read dialogue; \u201cWhen quences\u2014these kids turning into donkeys, ever made.\u201d Walt Disney once compared we did \u2018Hi diddle dee dee, an actor\u2019s life for you know. I think it\u2019s a terrific sequence me\u2019 they built this set with a rolling road, and I\u2019m sure it scared a lot of kids. But I Pinocchio and Snow White, feeling that put us in costume, and we had to go danc\u00ac think the pictures have to have strength ing down the road singing \u2018Hi diddle dee like that to be lasting. It\u2019s not a matter of Pinocchio \u201ctechnically and artistically was dee\u2019.\u201d trying to be cruel\u2014it\u2019s just telling a story that has more intensity. \u201d superior.\u201d And evidently Disney Home Jones is now a real-estate agent. Cliff Edwards, the voice of Jiminy Cricket, is Quite intense is the moment when Video feels that of the first three, the \u201cbig now dead. But were he alive, he\u2019d have a Pinocchio sees a boy transformed into a different story to tell of Disney\u2019s feelings donkey, sprouting long ears, the hands three\u201d {Snow White, Pinocchio, Fanta\u00ac about perfection. Edwards was once a changing to hooves, the boy crying out in well-known singer, the man who intro\u00ac horror, \u201cMother! Mother!\u201d But through\u00ac sia), Pinocchio is the one to be presented duced hits like \u201cToot Toot Tootsie Good\u00ac out the film young viewers react to scenes bye\u201d and \u201cSingin\u2019 in the Rain.\u201d He made of potential danger that hold special im\u00ac first. Of course, another reason might be millions. But in the \u201930s his career was in portance to them. There\u2019s kindly old decline. Making risqm records like \u201cI\u2019m Gepetto\u2014with a clock on the wall that that Pinocchio was in the theaters in 1984 Going to Give It to Mary with Love\u201d and shows a child with his pants down, spanked \u201cTake Out that Thing,\u201d he was an unlikely every hour on the hour simply for having and would be ineligible for re-release for choice for a wholesome Disney movie. But his hand in the cookie jar. The child Disney wanted that distinctive voice. Even squeaks out \u201cMa! Ma!\u201d up to 12 times. another generation. decades later, when Edwards\u2019 career was again on the downside, Disney didn\u2019t forget And there\u2019s the fairy who turns Pinoc\u00ac But when you wish upon a video to be him. The company contracted him for a chio into a real boy\u2014making sure to first record of Disney hits. load up the poor kid with a conscience and released, it makes no difference why it was the kind of lectures that most children The Beast Masters accept with bewilderment and resentment. released. Pinocchio is here, and not in a During the creation oiPinocchio the stu\u00ac Every kid can identify with Pinocchio after they watch him being gently, firmly limited edition, either. He\u2019s back, no dio looked like a natural-history museum. scolded by the fairy with \u201cI\u2019ll forgive you There were detailed studies of crickets this once, but remember a boy who won\u2019t be strings attached. And in the film is the (Walt\u2019s animators went through two- and good might just as well be made of wood! \u201d four-legged models till he found one that Even Jiminy Cricket gets into the act. theme song for all of Disney\u2019s work, the was \u201ccute enough\u201d) and there were clay \u201cMake a fool of yourself,\u201d he complains, figures of foxes and other cartoon animals. \u201cthen maybe you\u2019ll listen to your con\u00ac music that symbolizes the fantasy and im\u00ac Most impressive of all was the five-foot science!\u201d Pinocchio can only stare with whale skeleton with moving parts. Inside those big baby-blue eyes and skip through agination and magic in so much of the Dis\u00ac were working inflatable lungs so that ani\u00ac each new adventure on the way toward mators could study the animal\u2019s movement growing up into a real boy. ney movies. It\u2019s Jiminy Cricket singing and breathing. Like scientists, they stud\u00ac ied the iridescent glow of the sea mam\u00ac \u201cWhen you wish upon a star...your mal\u2019s skin, and when they found they couldn\u2019t duplicate all the changing hues of dreams come true.\u201d O the living breathing whale, they devised special photographic dye processes to turn the trick. The result, Monstro the Whale, was the \u201cJaws\u201d of his day, an awesome behemoth. Mystery and wonder are as plentiful in Pinocchio as moments of merriment and song. Wandering through it all is the child- hero, a blank-faced boy with a glassy wide\u00ac","THE IDEAL HOLIDAY GIFT VIDEO TAPE & DISC GUIDE TO HOME ENTERTAINMENT^** PiHhEdi,ion ARE YOU A VCR OWNER? \u25a0ANDDISCGUIOeTO THE] VIDEO The completely revised 1985 Video Tape & Disc Guide to Home Entertainment, Fifth Edition, pub\u00ac lished October 1,1984, is the per\u00ac SOURCE' fect addition to your video library. 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If that assump\u00ac last, for two nels you tuned in. tion\u2019s false in your case, you may find your\u00ac reasons: First, this self (as I did) wishing that the power, set\u2019s quality and I began by admiring the MR20\u2019s clean volume, channel-select, and perhaps in- value earn NAD a look and complete control setup. My put-select controls\u2014the ones you will use place in the video world. Second, a few admiration paled as I first began to use the in day-to-day operation\u2014were accessible annoyances among its features leave room set, on human-engineering grounds. Then with the door shut. The controls are deeply for improvement in subsequent models. it recovered due to the excellent perfor\u00ac recessed too\u2014hard to see when the set is Description. As the model number mance. But let\u2019s get my gripes\u2014and some mounted below eye level, as it usually will vaguely implies, this is a monitor\/receiver praise\u2014out of the way first. be. (NAD will fix that in future production with a 20-inch flat-square tube screen. runs by silk-screening a control map onto That screen, a few indicator lights, and a Operation. Assuming you will operate the inside of the door.) However, I did swing-down door make up the entire front the set fi-om its remote control, the design soon learn the locations of the day-to-day panel. All controls are behind that door in makes a lot of sense. Most of the fi-ont- controls, so this became less of a problem. recognition of the fact that most large- panel controls and features that aren\u2019t screen TVs are operated by remote con\u00ac duplicated on the remote control won\u2019t be video 115 trol most of the time. Flip down the door, though, and the sleek black monolithic look gives way to a toystore of 32 well-chosen controls and jacks intelligently arranged in sbc functional groups: input selection, tun\u00ac ing and volume, audio controls, video con\u00ac trols, automatic picture controls, and mis\u00ac cellaneous. On the rear panel are additional controls and jacks. These include RF, audio, and video inputs and outputs, connectors for external speakers, two unswitched AC convenience outlets, and user-accessible servicing controls. The remote-control transmitter\u2019s controls are mostly conven\u00ac tional (up\/down channel select and direct- access numeric keypad, mute, power, and up\/down volume adjust). But there is also an \u201cRF\u201d switch which steps through the Editor\u2019s note: This test report was ex\u00ac ecuted solely by Contributing Editor Ivan Berger because Technical Editor Lancelot Braithwaite was involved in designing the NAD MR20.","HYBRID-8...the one basic VCR accessory that gives you I \u2022 Switcher Switches between A and B inputs. \u2022Video Enhancer 3 controls: Enhance Sharpens apparent ;\u2022 Fade to Bk Fades picture to soft gray (see 4, E). resolution up to 10%! Neg. Noise Amp Filters out video \u2022'snow\\\". \u2022 Fade Duration Regulates time of fade\/out. Color Balance Balances all colors. \u2022 New Video Breakaway Switches video to Camera 2, keeps \u2022 Special Effects Generator Fantastic 16 pattern S.E.G. \u201e audio from Camera 1. Film a singer with an audience. Switch \u2022 New Dissolve Audio Mix one video soundtrack into the.next video to an audience shot, without losing your singer's audio. -like disc jockeys mix one record into the next. 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IR remotes acceptably by pointing them in eration too. (My problem with the shape the general direction of the set, even may be my own idiosyncrasy, but my fian\u00ac The MR20\u2019s input-switching setup is un\u00ac bouncing their beams off the ceiling\u2014not cee, vnth smaller hands, had the same mis\u00ac usual and, in many ways, exceptionally so the NAD\u2019s, which must be pointed givings.) And I would have preferred to well-thought-out. There are three audio\/ directly at the set. (This too will be fixed in have remote selection of audio\/video as video input-jack sets: VCR and Disc on the rear panel, Aux (with a video input-level IMew! Top Quality Video Accessories at Affordable Prices. Our engineers have developed a line of accessories that offer you top performance that\u2019s easy on your pocket, too! Trust the Val-U group... Rely on Ambico Quality. .. 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RF 3-4 selects channel on . .li:.ll VSM's two RF modulators TO buttons are '' ' \u2014 8 destinations | Button labels changeable WaaodlO\u00ae gygg\u00aeoiiii IM]gnji)ag)\u00aeij\u2019 -o- [MF Special Mode Buttons: Memory Cells 1-4 1 Back Panel View Shows 3 Matrix instantly recall up to four specific hook-ups. 1 Video Matrix 7 input, 8 output Memory Learn stores your special hook-ups f Stereo Matrix 7 input, 8 output in memory. Lights adjust LED brightness. New Lock Code you change three digit L. Matrix 3 input, 6 output code if learned by unauthorized persons. Unlock, Lock prevents tampering. 1 Totat: 10 in 8 out -1- 2 RF Mods Figure 1: Build A Four Camera Studio Use vsM as a Figure 3; A Super, Home Set-Up Over 3 million switch isusrouting switcher, and Hybrid-8 as an S.E.G. Get great results. combinations. Integrates all A, V and RF components. C\u00b13 -- VSM Gives You 3 Switcheirs - ; \u2022 - Figure 2: Same as 1, but shows a production in progress. 1, Video. 2, Audio. 3, RF. 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In a clever de\u00ac a betrayal of the MR20\u2019s performance) to system, that means flicking through 35 sig\u00ac sign move, selecting either cable input sets watch your VCR or videodisc on Channel nals to find the 15 channels that have any the tuner to cable reception (which worked 3, via the antenna or cable, inputs\u2014 interest for me. It also means marking time fine on New York\u2019s Manhattan Cable sys\u00ac whichever you didn\u2019t normally use for its as the MR20 scans past my highest cable tem), while selecting the antenna input intended purpose. But otherwise, the channel (36) through Channel 64 before sets up the tuner for the normal VHF and Channel-3 default makes little sense to me. jumping Channels 95 through 99 and cy\u00ac UHF frequencies. If you have a premium In most areas no TV station is on the air on cling back to 2. (Solution: push the cable system that requires a decoder box, Channel 3 (or any other specific channel). Channel-2 button.) On the other hand, not you needn\u2019t bother with external splitters Cable viewers won\u2019t normally watch everyone is as restless a channel scanner and switches to use the decoder while re\u00ac through their decoder boxes as the as I; and that long wait above Channel 36 taining full remote control of the MR20. A MR20\u2019s tuner picks up cable channels very shows that the MR20 is ready to receive a rear-panel output feeds the incoming cable well. So the only input for which you need a lot of cable channels\u201469 of them. signal to the cable box, whose output is Channel-3 default is the premium-cable then fed back to the premium-cable input. one, which will always be used with a de\u00ac Without cable, though, the MR20\u2019s un- coder box; and that\u2019s the only RF input limitable channel scan would be no prob\u00ac Great thinking so far, but it gets murky which does not default to Channel 3! If all lem. In Manhattan, for instance, one can beyond this point. Research showed NAD you watch is nonpremium cable you\u2019ll nev\u00ac reasonably hope to get seven VHF chan\u00ac that most users ofmonitor\/receivers in this er notice this. But to me, it\u2019s as out of place nels and about four UHF ones. Of those 11 price and quality class will watch cable pri\u00ac as grammatical errors in a great essay. channels, there are only two I\u2019d never marily, so the MR20 is always in cable- watch (both foreign-language stations), input mode when you first turn it on\u2014a The tuning scan is unusual too. It stops leaving little reason to censor the set\u2019s pleasure if you do watch this way, a pain if only at channels carrying a signal. As you scan. Under those circumstances, the only you do not. If you were premously watch\u00ac scan, the stations slide into tune instead of real annoyance would be the several long ing a cable channel, the set comes on tuned popping in as they commonly do: in a frac\u00ac waits (ranging from 2 to 13 seconds) as the to that; if you were watching anything else, tion of a second the picture appears in noisy set scanned through the relatively under\u00ac the set will tune itself to cable Channel 3. black & white, stabilizes, and colors and populated UHF band. Whenever you switch to the cable or TV sound come on. If you like to scan channels antenna input, the MR20 retunes to Chan\u00ac in silence, you must judge from the first Every other control function worked nel 3. second or so of picture whether or not you beautifully. The manual fine-tuning provi\u00ac want to watch; if you linger longer, the sion worked fine but may not be necessary According to the manual, \u201cThis is done sound comes on\u2014switching channels de\u00ac for most viewers. 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Dimensions: 19-1\/4 x 21 x 19-1\/8 inches VCR and the second set has audio level Stereo and SAP (Second Audio Program) (h\/w\/d) controlled by the volume control signals came in reasonably well, even when Power requirements: 120 VAC. 60Hz, Note: an 8-pin connector is provided my antenna could not pull in a good picture 132W which combines the 6 RCA jacks for VCR (a function of its location, sandwiched be\u00ac Screen size; 20-inch FST, measured di\u00ac inputs and outputs, as used on industrial tween two buildings). There was a bit of agonally VCRs noise when listening to broadcast stereo, Speaker size: .single internal 4-inch Auxiliary stereo audio output: yes but it was usually far from intolerable; and speaker for left channel with stereo ampli\u00ac Headphone jack: 1\/4-inch stereo when it did become annoying, pressing the fier and provision for external stereo External speaker connectors: yes Mono button cleared it up. speakers internal audio amplifier power: Type of tuning: frequency synthesis stereo, 5 watts per channel The automatic color control worked Method of tuning: up\/down scan on set, well, bringing in natural fleshtones on all both scan and random access on remote RESULTS & RATINGS but a handful of programs and commer\u00ac Multichannel TV Sound (MTS): yes. Picture sharpness: excellent, 1.8dB cials, whose transmitted color (viewed stereo or SAP (Second Audio Program) down at 4.2 MHz equivalent to over ,370 with Auto Color off) proved extremely switch selectable lines odd. When Auto Color is on, the manual Cable readiness: 139 channels\u20142 to Snowiness; S\/N, luminance: more picture controls\u2019 action is restricted but not 13, 14 to 83, A to I, J to W, .AA to to than 56dB completely shut out\u2014^just as I prefer it. W -t 28, plus A-5 to A1 (will operate with Accuracy of colors: excellent (chroma The Optimum Picture Quality (OPC) con\u00ac HRC cable system according to manufac- S\/N better than 48dB) trol, which varies picture brightness Convergence: excellent according to ambient light, worked very Remote control: IR wireless with con\u00ac Overall picture quality: excellent well. Unlike some other sets I\u2019ve tried, it trols for Power, volume Up\/Down, Mute, Overall audio performance: excel\u00ac neither under- nor over-compensated. channel Up\/Down, 10-key channel random lent The clickstops on the manual picture con\u00ac access, Q.V. (Quick View\u2014last-channel Ease of operation: good (see text) trols were at just the right places too. recall), RF switching Overall performance: exceUent There was no clickstop on the Detail con\u00ac trol but I didn\u2019t need one; I kept it most of side of the set (the apparent speaker grille The picture was very sharp and clear. the way up most of the time. on the right side seems to be for ventila\u00ac Video response was only l.SdB down at tion). 4.2 MHz, which is extremely good. At that Intelligently, NAD gave the MR20 a rate response would not fall 3dB till the quarter-inch headphone jack like those on Performance. Nitpicking notwith\u00ac 370-line resolution mark. Signal-to-noise home audio systems, instead of the small standing, the MR20\u2019s performance is top- 3.5-mm ones found on most small-screen notch. ratios were over 54dB for luminance TVs and portable sound systems. Head\u00ac (matched by only one or two other sets phones that use the larger plug usually The sound system\u2019s power level of five tested) find 48dB for chrominance (a new have longer cords, more appropriate for watts per channel is a good compromise measurement on receivers, so no compari\u00ac sitting a decent distance from this 20-inch between the usual miniscule TV sound sons as yet). screen; the larger plugs are more durable systems and the extra bulk and cost that a too. When a headphone is plugged in, the larger amplifier would entail. How much Both brightness and contrast were the internal speakers and external-speaker power you need depends on how efficient highest we have yet measured. This terminals are silenced, but the line-level your speakers are, how large your room is, allowed the picture to be set for rich deep feeds to external amplifiers and VCRs are and how loud you like to listen. For my own blacks and bright whites without compro\u00ac not disturbed. video listening (and Berger listens louder mising middle tones. This is a set on which than Braithwaite does), I find my regular you see not only detail but fine shadings. More intelligence showed up on the rear video system amplifier\u2019s meters reading Differences in contrast and lighting be\u00ac panel. For starters, there are two AC con\u00ac one watt or less most of the time, though tween programs stood out. Color movies venience outlets, so you can plug in VCRs, they do occasionally flick up to the 10-watt had the almost tactile richness, and black & disc players, cable boxes, and the like with\u00ac level when I\u2019m listening attentively to white films the pearly look, that I expect out a jungle of extension cords. Unlike energetic music. Using Infinity RSll from good prints in a moviehouse. some monitor\/receivers, the MR20 has speakers\u2014less efficient than my regular two sets of outputs in addition to its input ones\u2014I found the MR20\u2019s amp just begin\u00ac Conclusion. The MR20\u2019s features jacks. The VCR outputs, with fixed audio ning to distort perceptibly when its volume show a lot of intelligent thought, but their level, can be used for convenient dubbing was turned full up, with no sign of distor\u00ac implementation is annoyingly just off the firom disc to cassette, or to feed stereo or tion at normal listening levels. Bigger, mark in some cases. That\u2019s even more cable signals from the MR20\u2019s tuner to a more efficient speakers\u2014if you have room annoying in a set whose performance is as for them\u2014would make better use of the good as this one\u2019s. VCR not equipped to pick them up directly. MR20\u2019s five-watt amps. Of course, the The Second Monitor outputs have variable better the sound system, the more mer\u00ac Sitting right next to the MR20 in my audio level, controlled by the MR20\u2019s cilessly it exposes any defects in the origi\u00ac home is my own video component system, volume control, to feed an external ampli\u00ac nal signal\u2019s sound. My reference video sys\u00ac with a bigger 25-inch screen and none of fier or self-amplified speakers. There\u2019s the control problems that I complain of in also an eight-pin input\/output plug for con\u00ac tem, with limited high-frequency re\u00ac the NAD set. And which one am I watch\u00ac nection to commercial VCRs. There is no sponse, masks most of the distortion ing? The MR20. Quality counts (especially RGB video input. which occasionally comes through my at NAD\u2019s less-than-astronomical prices). cable system. With the MR20, however, But I still wish the fine points of the control A rear-panel switch either feeds the out\u00ac the distortion is glaringly evident unless I setup could have been just a bit more in put of the MR20\u2019s stereo amplifier to the turn down the treble\u2014even using only the keeping with this set\u2019s overall excellence. easy-connect external-speaker terminals NAD\u2019s internal speaker. And in future models, NAD assures us, on the rear panel, or feeds the amp\u2019s left they will be. channel to the speaker built into the left","GIVES YOU... 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During three revolutions of the chine that would The Panasonic Omnimovie offers a good head drum each of the four heads gets a combine the cam\u00ac mix of what\u2019s available on a standard chance to lay down one track; then the era and recorder in camera and a portable VCR, but has no process gets repeated. Control and audio one unit. Back then provision for recording from a tuner or an tracks, plus the erase function, are handled portable VCRs weighed more than 20 external video source. Among the bells and by stationary heads that maintain the same pounds and cameras pretty close to 10 whistles on the camera section are con\u00ac relative positions as on standard VHS pounds. Such a combination wasn\u2019t practi\u00ac tinuous or one-shot auto focus, built-in machines so that the tapes are compatible. cal. Slowly VCRs and cameras were made dater, auto or manual white balance, 6X The diameter of the head drum of this smaller and lighter, and manufacturers power zoom with macro range, and an machine is two-thirds of the size on stan\u00ac raced to deliver a \u201ccamcorder. \u201d The Beta electronic viewfinder with most indicators dard machines. camp got there first in 1983 with a 6-1\/2 on-screen. The recorder offers recording pound unit\u2014but though it could record, it and playback at SP (Standard Play) speed Description. Omnimovie is relatively didn\u2019t play back. That meant using another only, backspace editing, and the basic heavy. It weighs 7-1\/2 pounds with battery VCR. VHS was (and is) the more popular transport controls plus 3X forward and re\u00ac and is reminiscent of early consumer video format and few wanted to switch to Beta. verse scan. It may be powered by the sup\u00ac cameras, but a little taller. Styled in black Then in 1984 came the VHS-compatible plied battery for up to two hours, con\u00ac and silver with a blue shoulder rest, its (with an adapter) JVC VideoMovie, based tinuously by the supplied AC adapter, or by dimensions (not counting the detachable on the VHSC compact cassette, and in a car-battery adapter which plugs into a handle) are 7-1\/2 inches high by 6-1\/8 \\\\vide late \u201984 the 8mm camcorder. Now, in mid- standard cigarette-lighter socket. That last by 13-1\/4 deep. The main portion of the 1985, there will be a VHS camcorder using power source makes Omnimovie ideal for body is only slightly larger than that of a full-size (and full-length) VHS cassette. use in a vehicle because it can double for Betamovie. The battery slides onto Many of the VHS brands will have these playing prerecorded tapes. grooves at the back; the handle and lens camcorders\u2014but they\u2019ll all be built by Mat\u00ac bulge out slightly on the right side (viewed sushita. Panasonic, one of Matsushita\u2019s In short, the Panasonic can serve multi\u00ac from behind), and the electronic viewfinder companies, will be among the first. We ple functions but is not a complete replace\u00ac (EVE) projects to the left although it can be consider the first VHS camcorder so im\u00ac ment for a standard portable VCR with swung down for carrying and stowage. The portant that we\u2019re bending our rule about tuner. We\u2019ve been using the term \u201ccam\u00ac microphone is on a rigid stalk projecting reviewing only production models. The lat\u00ac corder\u201d out of habit, but Panasonic prefers forward over the lens. ter won\u2019t be here for another few months. the description \u201ccamera recorder\/player\u201d We are reviewing a working prototype at to emphasize the unit\u2019s playback capability. At the back below the battery is a jack presstime (in early March). Panasonic We\u2019ll stick to the camcorder description for the power and output connections, and knows what the final version will be and because it is so much easier. next to it is a sub-mini jack for the wired supplied both a list of planned changes and remote pause. On its left side is just the a mockup of it, whose picture appears with We\u2019d normally spend a long time de\u00ac cassette hatch, and on its right there are no the review. What we reviewed looks like scribing how the new machine works, but controls except for those on the handgrip, the GE camcorder, on the April cover. The though the tape wrap is new, the head which we\u2019ll get to later. On top are the changes are all in control placement and drum is similar to the one used in VHSC handgrip, an eyelet for the carrying strap, labeling\u2014except that the rotary control machines. It has four heads instead of and buttons for Eject and Battery release. three and the tape is wrapped three-quar\u00ac Closer examination also reveals a hidden ters of the way around the drum instead of compartment that runs from front to back half way as in standard machines. Each along the top outer edge. In there are the transport controls; Record\/Play select. Fast Forward (Search), Play, Rewind (Search), Stop, and Pause\/Still. For re\u00ac cording there is no need to enter the com\u00ac partment, though, because when the machine is first turned on it is always in recording mode and in pause until you touch the run button. Also in this compart\u00ac ment are the Tracking control. Counter Reset, and Memory buttons plus three more for setting the date and turning it on. The date is recorded when it is on. The counter-memory button turns the other displays on and off. On the front of the camera is the lens, of course, with its manual focusing and zoom rings. As usual, the release that lets you into its macro focus range is on the stubby lever on the zoom ring. Below the lens is a window for the auto-focus mechanism. The other image used in auto focusing is taken from the main lens. On the side, away from the grip is the auto\/manual switch for auto focus plus a separate one- shot button for auto focusing in the manual","SKC CASSETTES GIVE YOU EVERYTHING YOUR EQUIPMENT'S GOT. INCLUDING GREAT STEREO. To get great results from the new generation very difficult to produce.. .a matter of incredible of stereo video cassette recorders (and, for quality control. We solved the problem by manu\u00ac that matter, your present monaural system), facturing every single component ourselves, you need a very good video cassette tape in\u00ac from the polyester film to the label. It\u2019s taken deed. A tape designed to capture every signal, Sunkyong, one of the world\u2019s largest companies, every shade and nuance of the original stereo years to perfect. 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On its underside are screw- but on the front of the body are the Power Test Report: Panasonic Omnimovie date if activated; LED in KVF window j Video dub: no Auto rewind: no VHS Camcorder\/Player indicates record,pause Stereo: no Hi-Fi; no DATA Viewfinder controls: screwdriver-t>T5e Output; picture in EVF; audio and ndeo Date of test; March 1985 focus and brightness out with supplied adapter; or audio, video and RF (Channel 3'4) tlu-ough .AC adapter Suggested retail price: li.a. Auto fade; no Accessories: wired remote control, handle, audio'video adapter, battery, au\u00ac Weight: 7.5 pounds with battery; battery VCR controls; all dio\/video cable, AC adapterbattery charger, earphone 1.32 lbs. Microphone: electret condenser built- RESULTS & RATINGS Dimensions: 7-1\/2 x 6-1,'8 x 13-3\/4 in, accepts external microphone Horizontal resolution: 270 lines rated and measured inches (E w\/d) not including removable Cable length: not applicable S\/N, video luminance: 37dB. unweighted; 42.5dB, weighted (see text) carrying handle Plug: not needed for camera but for out\u00ac S\/N, chroma AM; 38dB \u25a0 Power requirements: 12VDC from put or AC adapter S\/N, chroma PM: 3.5dB Audio frequency response: 100- battery, AC adapter, or optional car Tape format: VHS 8000Hz. -3dB S\/N, audio: 40dB. external microphone adapter cord Tope speeds: SP input Audio distortion: 3.2% Image sensor: 1 2-inch Newvicon Play speed select: not applicable Overall picture quality: excellent ' average Lens; fl.4, 6X (9-.54mm) power\/manual Still frame: yes Audio quality: average Ease of operation: very good except zoom with macro range Frame advance: no size and weight Overall performance: average Filter diameter: 49mm Slow motion: no INTIMATE ACTION Minimum illumination: 20 lux Speed play: no VOLUME I Optimum illumination: 1400 lux Rapid search; see Cue & retiew X\u25a1X\u25a1X \u25a1UN\u25a1D\u25a1ER\u25a1GR\u25a1O\u25a1UN\u25a1D\u25a1C\u25a1m\u25a1SS\u25a1IC Auto focus: yes, switchable to manual Cue & review: 3X approx. 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Too far forward for easy reach is the Record\/ Review button, which lets you see the last few seconds of the previous take. The handgrip may be a little large for a small hand. The lens cap is secured to the secu\u00ac rity strap by a cord. The bottom of the camcorder is bare but for the tripod screw which we think is too far forward. Operation. Cameras have been get\u00ac ting smaller and lighter over the last few years, so the first thing that you notice when you pick up Omnimovie is its size and weight. It is a bit bigger and heavier than Betamovie\u2014but it plays back, unlike Be- tamovie. All its operation procedures are standard except that all the controls are on the same machine. For recording you don\u2019t have to trouble yourself with anything but the external controls. The controls are all those you\u2019d expect to find on a camera: focus, zoom, white balance, BLC, review, and run\/ pause. The only time you have to enter the control compartment is if you want to set and use the date imprinter. In playback mode, all the controls you\u2019ll want to use are in the compartment except the power switch. If you want to view a recorded tape on any TV you must use the AC adapter plugged into the rear socket. The RF mod\u00ac ulator is in that adapter, not the camcorder itself. To view a picture on a monitor you may use the unpowered adapter, the car cord, or the AC adapter. The AC adapter is also used for battery charging and charges a single battery in 1 hour and 20 minutes. Battery life is 2 hours. You will miss a few things. There is no provision for recording from a source other than the camera section; the scan speed is a slow 3X; rewind time for a T-120 cas\u00ac sette is about 10 minutes; and the only other special effect is Still. You may also miss the slower recording speeds, but we didn\u2019t. If something is worth recording with a camera, you\u2019ll want the best quality. That means using the SP speed with the best tape you can afford. It is nice that if you\u2019re not into recording from air or cable you can still play prerecorded tapes. Performance. First rest assured that Omnimovie is compatible with standard","Videotests VHS VCRs. We played tapes made on However, the pictures recorded through in 3dB and to 10,000 Hertz at -lOdB. other machines through Omnimovie and the camera were a bit noisy, 27dB at best. Results using the external microphone jack vice versa with good results. In fact, our Since the sample we measured is one of were in the same range and those through best S\/N measurements were achieved two prototypes that have been kicking the mic, while covering the same range, with tapes recorded on other machines\u2014 around the country since January, we were not as smooth. 37dB unweighted, 42.5dB weighted. That won\u2019t swear Omnimovie can\u2019t perform bet\u00ac is almost on a par with other Panasonic ter. The tested unit had traveled so much Conclusion. There is no question that VCRs. We were surprised, though, to re\u00ac and been through so many hands and situa\u00ac Omnimovie does a respectable job of re\u00ac cord clean signals with a horizontal resolu\u00ac tions that we were surprised it worked at cording and playing on standard-size VHS tion of 270-plus lines through the camera. all. tapes. It offers a modest number of useful Other than on the soon-to-be-available Su\u00ac features and is fairly easy to use. per Beta machines, we\u2019ve never measured On audio Omnimovie reproduced tapes However, its size and weight are detrac\u00ac a consumer VCR with resolution that high. made on other machines with a frequency tions. What we missed most was a way to response of 100 to 8000 Hertz, flat to with- record external video signals. (You can re\u00ac cord external audio signals through the ex\u00ac \u00a9KINVO. ly\u2122 \u00a9KEVYD. VIDEO VIDEO SONY ternal microphone jack.) We\u2019re enthusias\u00ac VHS or BETA HEAD CLEANER CONTROL CONTROL TAPE tic about its performance\u2014but we\u2019d like to CENTER^ see more features. REWINDER CENTER for\\\" Sharp VHS ^*995 CONTROL SWITCHER! LOWEST PRICES Hi-Fi VCR '^^3495 L-- 1 VHS Hi-Fi was in\u00ac AUTOMATIC WET SYSTEM $2495\u201c\\\"\\\" \u00a9TDK troduced by RCA SHUT-OFFA EJECT VHS or BETA TWO TV OUTPUTS maxell with a midpriced machine, but many LOWEST VID-LID 4-WAY DELUXE VINYL Hi-Fi models since SMOKED HARD PLASTIC then have been top- PRICES DUST COVER of-the-line units. ON VIDEO 49GINGA Sharp has a high- priced model too, but the VC-487U is its REWINDER midpriced entry. WITH FAST FORWARD Though this is a step-down model. Sharp AMPLIFIER VCR includes its APSS (Automatic Program Search System), which uses quiet spots on RECORDERS $^ ^^ DUST the audio track to stop the VCR at those points. Other features include manual au\u00ac RCilc SptcHy mak\u00bbandmodalof OPERATED i C$O4V9E5RS dio-level control, stereo linear track with I .. SONY Dolby NR, and controls concealed in a drawer. More surprising is what the de\u00ac , GoldSfcar ONE YEAR WARRANTY signers left out. Search is recommended I SHARR for EP (SLP) speed only. (It works at the | CALL FOR PRICES. ON ALL PRODUCTS! other speeds but with large noise bars.) ; Microphone jacks, audio dub, and video Video Factory 2558DELAWAREAVE. 1-800-336-6843 insert edit are sacrificed along with slow | BUFFALO. N.Y. 14216 and speed play, but what experienced us\u00ac ers probably will miss most after search DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED SAMEDAYSHIPPING! (N.Y. STATE 716-874-0390) will be random-access tuning. Instead there is a 12-preset varactor tuner. Yet \u2014 VtDEO DEALERS: there is Hi-Fi sound, and for $300 less (at $1100) than the Sharp VC-489U\/US If you\u2019re not buying from us, then you\u2019re (\u201cVideotests, \u2019\u2019 January 1985). paying too much! Description. The VC'^487U is a char\u00ac coal-brown unit that measures 3-3\/4 inches Excalibur Films, the largest distributor of adult films high by 16-15\/16 wide by 15-1\/2 deep. It in America, now has over 20,000 square feet of ware\u00ac immediately impresses you with its unclut\u00ac house\/office space to serve you better. We are your one- tered appearance. On the left side of the stop source for every single adult video company in the front panel are the Power and Eject but\u00ac United States \u2014 both large and small. tons. Next to them is the cassette hatch, above most of the few exposed controls. In What this means to you is that now you can pick up the row nearest the hatch are large buttons the phone and dial a single number, 1-800-BETA-VHS, for Play, Stop, Pause\/Still, and Record, and fill all of your adult needs, simply and economically. along with the window for the IR wireless remote and indicators for Hi-Fi, Dolby NR, Remember, if you\u2019re not buying from us, then you\u2019re and Timer. Below those buttons are paying too much! And if you\u2019re opening a new store, let small ones for Fast Forward (Search), Re\u00ac us help. We guarantee lowest prices overall! wind (Search), Frame Advance, and timed Call today for your Free Dealer Package: one-touch recording. On what looks like a pedestal are the headphone jack and its ^XiCALIBUR FILMS volume control. The right half is occupied 424 W. 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A fall over the side of a cliff causes her to be in a permanent coma. Her \u25a1 VISA \u25a1 Master Charge \u25a1 Money Order \u25a1 Check husband, played by Eric Edwards, agrees to, as a last Card #_ resort, an experimental brainwave transfer procedure. What he doesn\u2019t realize is that the brainwaves come from a EJ|j:ALIBUR FILMS nymphomaniac! Once Tracy Lords awakens from the coma she\u2019s to hot to handle. This lavishly produced Arthur 424 W. Commonwealth, Fullerton, CA 92632 King film is superbly scored and edited. The plot is quite exciting, the acting is outstanding, the dialogue is easily the most sophisticated ever to have been penned for an adult film, and the erotic scenes contain special effects that will knock your socks off! Sex Waves is one film you\u2019ll be sure to see! 1-800-BETA-VHS li Califiriii: I-800-VIDE0-CA ir (714) 773-5855 7 Days Offer void after midnight June 30, 1985. VIDEO DEALERS: If you\u2019re not buying from us, then you\u2019re paying too much! We guarantee lower prices overall. Call today for your Free Dealer Package.","Videotests mostly by a large display plus channel up trol at far left, plus switches for recording and adding or deleting channels from the and down buttons. However, pushing the speed, APSS, clock\/timer setting, and timer memory. Sharp logo in the lower left comer causes a Timer on\/off. In the forward area are ro\u00ac drawer to pop out in which most of the tary tracking controls for play and still The bottom and sides are bare except other controls are hidden. modes plus a lot of buttons arranged in two for airholes, but on the top is a compart\u00ac rows with some set off by a gold back\u00ac ment with the controls for the preset In that drawer are two switches for au\u00ac ground. Outside the background are the tuner. For each preset there is a rotary dio-input selection, Dolby on\/off, two more TV\/VTR (VCR), counter Reset and bandswitch, a thumbwheel, and a rotating switches for audio-output selection, and Memory, and Cue buttons. That lets you pointer. You must turn the bandswitches the automatic audio-level on\/off switch in add cues that can be read by the APSS, and with a tool that resides in the compart\u00ac the row closest to the inside. At the far it actually creates small blank patches in ment, and you may use the same tool to right of this compartment are the sliders the linear audio track. Within the gold back\u00ac adjust the vertical lock for EP special for left and right manual audio control. In ground are the buttons for setting the clock effects. Though the tuner is a preset type, the middle row is a rotary Sharpness con\u00ac the channel display is electronic, and but\u00ac tons provided make the display show the LASER LASER correct number and select the broadcast or cable channel sequence. There is also a IPlJlIJ button to clear all of the unit\u2019s memory\u2014 time, channel, and timer information. dicital dioilal dicital dioitol dieitol There\u2019s also an AFT switch. SOUND SOUND SOUND SOUND SOUND The back of the unit is quite simple with Import Import Import Import Import its line cord and AC outlet, plus audio, video, and RF inputs and outputs. There is CiD niONEER one switch back there for Channel 3\/4 RF output selection plus a submini jack for CED\/LASER DISCPLAYER TRADE-IN camera remote pause. The controls on the THE ORIGINAL LASERDISC^ TOTE BAG IR wireless remote mirror the ones for the tape transport, adding Power, TV\/VTR, FREE! and tuning Up and Down. FREE when you Operation. If you don\u2019t open the draw\u00ac purchase any 2 er with the special controls, using this imported laser video\u00ac Sharp would be little harder than using a discs iisted here. common audio-cassette recorder. The only unusual external control lets you re\u00ac ;ini \/ Kate Bush \/ XTC \/ UB40 \/ Cult cord the selected channel for 15, 30, 60, ' Doobie Brothers \/ Kool & The Gar 90, 120, 180, or 240 minutes, and one of d \/ Kajagoogoo \/ OMD \/ Ventures \/ T the displays tells you exactly what you SCHUBERT #8\/The Ba selected. The only hard part would be set\u00ac Atard Jones\/Mike Oldfie ting the tuning presets. [night & P?ps $43\u00b095'^Judas Pr If you do open the drawer, setting the ' Led Zeppelin \/ Sheena Eastc clock, timer, tracking, and sharpness is easy. So too are the counter reset and the 617-890-5384 (mail orde memory, TV\/VTR, recording speed. 617-890-9262 (retail) Timer, clock function, and Dolby. Select\u00ac -jHI 800-VHS-BETA (MA) ing the audio source is just a matter of replav 8oo-vhs-disc (us) ^ 800-THE-INST (Canada choosing between tuner, simulcast, or both audio and video from aux inputs. The 1-800-VHS-DISC other source switch lets you record audio without accompanying video. Similarly, you may choose to listen to either the linear or Hi-Fi audio. The other output selector lets you choose whether to listen to either the left channel alone, the right channel alone, or both at the same time (stereo). The ALC lets you decide whether you\u2019ll let the machine detennine its own audio recording level or whether you\u2019ll take that responsibility yourself. The APSS operates if it is on, and if there is no cue where you want it to stop, you can add one with the Cue button. Taken one step at a time, the setup entails a minimum of confusion\u2014so the VCR gets a high mark on ease of operation. Performance. Here the Sharp falters a little. Its picture quality was just average with barely 240 lines of horizontal resolu\u00ac tion and a weighted signal-to-noise ratio of under 42dB. On audio, the Hi-Fi track did quite well\u2014but the linear tracks are just low-average. Hi-Fi frequency response covered the range of hearing at better than","VAtU-LINE ELECTRONICS L. T. D. VIDEO VALUES FOR THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE AND ADVICE! TOLL FREE 7227778 ItCil tXu^sar* JVC ^ HITACHI MAGNAVOX SONY SEC SANYO FULL LINE OF ACCESSORIES VIDEO EXPERTS \u2022 ALL MAJOR BRANDS I IT-120 $3.99 FREE! \u00ab25.<x> BONUS WITH , \u201cEXTRA VAL-U-UNE\u201d CAIALOG _ IKl W IHG $4.99 I VISA \\\\ I I Address. GUARANTEED DELIVERY POLICY. W Enclose $2.00 for Mailing and Handling. 260 Park Ave, South, New York, NY 10010 f No. 54 on Reader Service Card.","Videotests %K ^^iIpDiREOECT -3dB. Its dynamic range was 81dB and switching to a two-head system it has com\u00ac total harmonic distortion was 0.4 percent. promised video performance, and audio is WDISTRIBUTORS The linear tracks reached a frequency re\u00ac Just average. Wish as we might, VCR capa\u00ac sponse of 70-10, OOOHz, but only within bility costs money. Sharp is offering a mod\u00ac \u2022 NO SHIPPING CHARGES on surface lOdB, and distortion was a lackluster 3.1 erate level of performance, features, and UPS orders over $200.00 prepaid by cashiers percent with S\/N of just 39dB. Overall, ease of operation. Base your buying deci\u00ac check, money order or wire. linear audio is average. sion on your pocketbook and on whether the VC-487U makes its compromises \u2022 COMPLETE LINE of RCA cameras & Conclusion. For this midpriced model where you are willing to accept them. recorders as well as lights, tripods, battery Sharp sacrificed mostly features, but in packs, and other video accessories. Test Report: Hi-Fi; yes \u2022 FAST SHIPPING 24 hrs (in most cases) Sharp VC-487U VHS Hi-Fi VCR Noise reduction: Dolby NR on linear DATA tracks \u2022 NO TAX ADDED (except in Virginia) Date of test: March 1984 Tuning method: varactor preset Suggested retail price; $1099.95 Channei selectors: Up and down scan on \u2022 FREE NATIONWIDE SERVICE Weight: 22 lbs. both VCR and remote Preset method: rotary bandswitch and \u2022 MAIL-OUT SPECIALS for previous Dimensions: 3-3\/4 x 15-15\/16 x 15-1\/2 thumbwheels for each of 12 presets; elec\u00ac customers only! inches (h\/w\/d) tronic channel indicator set separately Power requirements: 120VAC, 60Hz, Cable readiness: 2-6, .A-VV, 7-14, 14-83 \u2022 VIDEO SPECIALISTS - We help before 45W not including load on convenience outlet AFT: switchable and AFTER the sale. Tape format: VHS Channel lock; yes Tape speeds: SP, LP, SLP (EP) Timer: 5-event\/14-day 1986 RCA Models Now Available! Play speed select: automatic Auto channel-change: yes Still frame: yes Accessories: remote control with bat\u00ac VKT375 VKT650 CAMERAS teries, audio cable, tuning tool, antenna VKT385 VLP800 CKC019 Frame advance: yes cables and transformers VLT450 VKP900 CLC020 Slow motion: no VLT600HF VKP950 CKC021 Speed play: no RESULTS & RATINGS Rapid search: see Cue & review Horizontal resolution: 240 tines To place your order with a company who offers Cue & review: 5X, EP only (see text) S\/N, video luminance: 38dB, un\u00ac CUSTOMER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE before Visible FF and Rew: no weighted: 41 dB, weighted and AFTER the sale, ACCESSORY SUPPORT Fast forward\/rewind time: approx. 4 S\/N, chroma MA: 45.5dB for their products and who specializes in. . . minutes for T-120 S\/N, chroma PM: 38.7dB Audio frequency response: 20- EXCLUSIVELY Remote pause: yes 20,()00Hz, 4-0.3dB. -2.1dB, Hi-Fi; 70- Remote: 14-function IR wireless with con\u00ac 90()0Hz, -3dB, SP, 70-6000Hz, -3dB. LP, RCil trols for Power. TV\/VTR (VCR), channel 62-5000HZ, -3dB, EP, linear Up and Down, Record, Pause\/Still, Stop, Dynamic range; 81dB, Hi-Fi CALL^ 1-800-368-5020 Play, Rewind, Fast P'orward, Frame S\/N, audio: 39dB Advance Audio distortion: 0.49c, Hi-Fi: 3.1% In Virginia 1-804-595-2572 Separate efect: yes linear Counter digits: four Overall picture quality: average MON-FRI9AM-9PM(EST) Counter memory: yes Audio quality; very good, Hi-Fi; average, SATURDAYS 9 AM-6 PM (EST) Program start locator\/index\/cue: yes, linear APSS (Automatic Program Search System) Ease of operation: very good Audio dub: no Overall performance: average.'good Video dub: no Auto rewind: yes Stereo: yes on both Hi-Fi and linear tracks SCI-coustics Stereo Enhancer circle No. 55 on Reader Service Card. Progress in video Then, with the introduction of the VCR 134 video image reproduction there came both wider frequency response has not been hap- and stereo. Next came the laser videodisc with wider frequency response, stereo, panied by a reawak\u00ac and a dynamic range wider than that on LP ening of interest in records. Triggered by Dolby Surround natural reproduc\u00ac Sound in the movies, the latest race has tion of sound. First came a desire for wider been for sound reproduction that recreates frequency response in broadcast TV. a feeling of aural three-dimensionality. One of the latest devices attempting to recreate","LOUISIANA FLORIDA SOUTH CAROLINA MINNESOTA NEW MEXICO MARYLAND","JUST Videotests ACCESSORIES OUR ONLY BUSINESS! VIDEO \u2022 COMPUTER ACCESSORIES BEFORE YOU BUY: Head Cleaners Film, Slide Converlers Tripods Custom Designed Cases Camera Lenses Lights, Battery Packs Blank Tape Detailers, Stabilizers COMPLETE SELECTION ALL MAJOR BRANDS r^AI I 800-828-0808 that feeling is the SCI-coustics IMX audio system. You must add your own im\u00ac Dimensional Enhancer Model 100. pressions, listening to the IMX system WMkk DAILY SPECIALS compared with others firsthand. Its effect The IMX Enhancer departs from the is subtle and quite realistic\u2014but that may In NY 914-699-4141 trend of using additional audio channels to not be what you are looking for. recreate sound dimensionality. Requiring I JATEK, Corp. P.O. Box 175 Pelham, N.Y. 10803 only the two speakers normally associated Description. The Model 100 IMX I SATISFACTION GUARANTEED with stereo reproduction, it uses continual\u00ac Dimensional Enhancer is a silverish or ly variable phase manipulation, frequency black anodized box that is 3 inches high by JATEK Cocp. 1984 tailoring, and selective amplitude changes 14 wide and 9-1\/2 deep. It weighs just 2-1\/2 to localize sound sources. (Most other sys\u00ac pounds. Its front panel has a black inset tems attempt to recreate dimensionality by occupying more than half of its right side. deriving one or two rear channels from the To the left of the inset are a power button stereo information, and they increase the and a rotary control that determines the effect of the rear information by delaying degree of enhancement. Within the black the sound from the rear speakers. Those inset are two buttons one above the other. systems require additional amplifiers and The top one selects the Enhance mode or speakers for the rear-channel informa\u00ac lets you Bypass the enhance circuitry. To tion. ) its right are lighted legends for those modes. The lower button selects whether Psychoacoustics is the science that the sound source will be taken from the studies how the brain perceives and inter\u00ac receiver or tape input jacks at the rear of prets sound. The Dimensional Enhancer is the unit. To the right of the front panel based on these principles, which show that inset is a display that tells the approximate the signals received by the ears use the degree of stereo separation present in the relative amplitude, ratio of direct to re\u00ac enhancer\u2019s output. flected sound, and frequency response to pinpoint the location of sound. Your brain The top, bottom, and sides are bare, and can estimate the exact location of a sound at the back are a power cord and four pairs even with your eyes closed. of audio jacks strung out in a single row. The stereo pair nearest the left side of the Conventional stereo systems use only unit is for the Input from your stereo re\u00ac the relative amplitude of sounds from the ceiver (or amplifier). It should be con\u00ac left and right to help you determine direc\u00ac nected to one of the tape loops on the tion. If the stereo speakers are not set up receiver labeled Record. The pair to its correctly, you can have a pingpong effect, right, labeled Output, should be connected with little sound appearing to come from to the Play connection of the same tape directly in front of you. Most modem sys\u00ac loop on the receiver. Since this connection tems do not show this weakness if they are uses a tape loop on the receiver and many set up correctly. Ambience-extraction receivers have only one, the remaining systems use the difference between the jacks on the enhancer allow VCR connec\u00ac tion, so you still can play tapes. The two left and right channels, fed to a rear remaining pairs of jacks connect to the re\u00ac speaker, to enhance the \u201cspaciousness\u201d of corder\u2019s inputs and outputs. The output the sound. Some go a step further and use connected to the Record input of the re\u00ac the sum of the left and right channels (mon\u00ac corder feeds unprocessed sound so that aural), fed to a speaker in the center the tapes you make are not enhanced. front, to disguise the \u201chole in the middle\u201d The enhancement occurs when you play effect. One system goes even further and tapes through the enhancer. These con\u00ac synthesizes two rear-channel signals. nections are also appropriate for video if your video system plays audio through With all these ways of creating a multi\u00ac your stereo receiver. It is fairly common to dimensional sound \u201cimage,\u201d there are feed TV (video) sound into a receiver\u2019s many opinions about which is best. Some Aux input to get the benefit of an audio listeners seek the most realistic sound; system\u2019s superior amplifier and speakers. others look for the most entertaining. These choices are a matter of taste rather Operation. If you connect the IMX than scientific accuracy. What we will de\u00ac Enhancer as the instruction manual sug\u00ac scribe from here on are the measurements gests, you can play audio material unen\u00ac we made and our impressions of the IMX hanced by just selecting the appropriate system. There is no easy way to compro\u00ac mise all the things each listener seeks in an","t; do you like the result? We eelings. Yes, the result is IMX and select receiver by touching the ver, with from the appropriate dire lower button, if it is not already in that we made most sound effects are a position. The receiver indicator should be some of the normal measurements. Fre\u00ac judging \u201ccorrectness\u201d is arbitrary. The lit. If the Bypass indicator is lit, touch the quency response is 20 to 20,000Hz -I- 0.3, IMX system can eliminate the \u201chole in the top button so that the Enhance indicator is -2.1dB and signal-to-noise ratio was middle\u201d at the expense of narrowing the lit. Then adjust the Enhancement control 81dB. But remember that as soon as a sound stage, but it doesn\u2019t wow you. It is for a pleasing effect. The channel-separa\u00ac stereo signal is introduced, its internal cir\u00ac tame for video reproduction. For audio- tion indicator will show how widely the cuitry starts modifying frequency response only reproduction it is very pleasing and a channels will appear to be spaced. and other characteristics. So measure\u00ac worthy competitor among ambience-re\u00ac ment or no, the effect gets boiled down to a covery systems\u2014less artificial. Like every audio-reproduction system, this one has optimum listening positions. NEW YOFIICUCAMERA Assuming you are using forward-facing speakers, the best position is with your (212) 695-0697 head centered between the two speakers, ACCESSORIES and far enough away from an imaginary line joining the two speakers so that the dis\u00ac iiii tance between your head and either speak\u00ac er is about the same as the distance be\u00ac s'slk*s tween the speakers. Another way of de\u00ac scribing the \u201csweet spot\u201d is that your head NEW YORK CAMERA iHii and the two speakers should form a trian\u00ac gle, with each side of the triangle being .vs.. about equal length. The tone the receiver should be set flat or natural tonal balance. Too much tre too little bass tends to overempl stereo separation. Too little treble i much bass tends to reduce channel ration. If you touch the bypass control ( listening, volume drops noti( this is not a good way to compare versus unenhanced sound. You stereo audio tapes through the system with enhancement by selecting the tape input with the lower button. Input Selec\u00ac tor. For all types of enhanced listening the speakers should face straight forward, not angled in, and they should be of the direct- radiating type, not the reflecting type that bounces some or all of the sound off a wall. Performance. As we hinted in our in\u00ac troduction, judging the effect of enhance\u00ac ment is subjective. Let's say that the effect achieved with the IMX Dimensional En\u00ac hancer is quite pleasing\u2014but it should be described as subtle rather than spectacu\u00ac lar. Where other systems strive for the most emphasis between sound sources, the IMX tries to create' a coherent whole. An analogy is that the sound image seems more like a hologram than a 3-D movie. This might sound like music to the designers\u2019 ears because it means they achieved their goal of realism, but to many of the people we talked to about the effect, it lacked the pizzazz of decoders like the Surround Sound M-360 (\u201cVideotests,\u201d October 1983) or the Tate II by Fosgate (August 1984). On the basis of bench tests, it is not possible to measure even simple things like stereo separation because the Enhance\u00ac ment control acts a bit like a stereo blend control that lets you fill the \u201chole in the","CONFUSED? Beta Male Strippers in \\\"Front Row At LoBore\\\" Featuring First and Secand Place Winners of Playboy's \\\"Great American Strip Off\\\" The Blue Hawaiian and The Mighty Cougar 17 Male Dancers - Playing to a packed House . . .and YOU have a front row seat - So sit back, relax and let these studs strut their stuff for you. One Hour and Fifty-Five Minutes Running Time 39\u2019* plus 3.00 P&H Video Recall - P.O. 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The IMX Dimensional VIDEO CASSETTES AT ' Enhancer strives for accurate realism. To HOMEVIDEO dS) LOW PRICES some listeners this is the highest ENTERTAINMENT, INC. achievement. To others it is everyday and mundane: they prefer fireworks in the au\u00ac dio even if they sacrifice accuracy. You may not know which you prefer. We sug\u00ac gest you listen to this and other systems before making a purchase. You may even VIDEO CASSETTES find that you prefer the IMX for recorded SEND S3.00 FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG DEDUCTIBLE WITH FIRST PURCHASE TO: music and a different type for spectacular HOME VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT. INC. movies like Star Wars. The suggested re\u00ac P.O. BOX 32277 tail price of the IMX Model 100 is $199, CLEVELAND. OHIO 44132 about half that of the other processors ^(216) 486-0012 we\u2019ve reviewed. a Test Report: IMX Dimensional Enhancer Model 100 by SCI-coustics DATA Date of test: March 1985 Moke and model: IMX model 100; other models available Manufacturer: Sci-coustics, 10th fl.. 1275 K St. NW, Wasliington, D.C. 20005; 202-628-2923 Function: to enhance the dimensional effect of stereo audio material by simulating depth and reducing the \u201chole in the middle\u201d Suggested retail price: .$199 Dimensions; 3 x 14 x 9-1\/2 inches (h\/w\/d) Power requirements; 105-130VAC, 60Hf. 5W Case: metal with brushed aluminum (silver) or black anodized finish Controls: Power, Input selector. Enhance\/ Bypass switches plus rotary Enhancement control Inputs: 2 stereo pairs from receiver and tape deck Input impedance: 50k ohms nominal Outputs: 2 stereo pairs to receiver and tape deck Output impedance: 600 ohms nominal Rated load impedance: 10k ohms Input to output voltage ratio: 1 Typical; lower in Bypass mode Maximum output; 6 VRMS RESULTS & RATINGS Frequency response: 2O-2O,0OOHz -!-0.3, -2. IdB with mono source to both channels (see text) S\/N ratio: 81dB, measured Totai Harmonic Distortion: 0.4%, rated; 0.3%, measured, mono input to both channels Intermodulation Distortion: less than 0.04% SMPTE, rated Dimensional effect: subtle but accurate Overall performance: no comparison possible, patented process\u2014subtle but very good Retailer: Reese Communications, Inc. is pleased to For additional information, circle No. 64 on Reader Service Card. 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Hitchcock attributed the public\u2019s 20,000 VCRs are being unfavorable reaction to the heroes\u2019 \u201cnega\u00ac sold each day? proved sound quality also applies to other tive purpose, \u201d but that doesn\u2019t explain why Are you aware that the what worked in Blackmail didn\u2019t work industry needs qualified recordings, even at the slowest speed. again. Perhaps the element of premedita\u00ac technicians to repair tion does; not until the dark masterpieces and maintain video VHS Hi-Fi recordings, however, are not as of later years, such as Rope (1948) and equipment? Psycho (1960), would Hitchcock get away Are you aware that good flexible when it comes to editing camera with making his protagonists premeditated paying careers are killers. Notwithstanding this, Lorre is de\u00ac available in video tapes. Since the Hi-Fi audio signals are lightful as the lunatic Spanish assassin and equipment repair? 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This movie marked the start of the director\u2019s replace parts of your original tapes with most sophisticated use both of theater and bird imagery. titles or other effects to enhance the Young and Innocent (1938) is a minor appearance of the finished tape. One film\u2014but one littered with signposts point\u00ac ing to Hitchcock\u2019s past and foture. The machine, Toshiba\u2019s V-X34 Beta portable, offers the ability to insert a new segment of video over an earlier one either with or without the addition of new audio. That\u2019s the closest thing to a true \u201cinsert edit\u201d on any consumer machine thus far, and it would be nice to see this versatility extend to other brands and models. Despite the rising popularity of single\u00ac piece camcorders (especially those using full-size VHS cassettes), it\u2019s a safe bet that these more specialized (and more expen\u00ac sive) all-in-one units aren\u2019t about to swamp the demand for portables just yet. 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Date_ Card No. _ DEALER INQUIRIES WELCOME S3.98 VALUE LOW AS $1.56","plotline about a young man fleeing an unjust scription of the theatrical re-release\u2014 But with Rear Window (1954) Hitchcock beyond criticism.) regained his footing with the help of script\u00ac murder charge is more or less The 39 Steps writer John Michael Hayes (in the first of Alfred and Alma Hitchcock wrote most his four films with the director) and James (1935) revisited, minus that film\u2019s espio\u00ac of the dialogue for Stage Fright (1950) Stewart, who in his second role for Hitch\u00ac themselves. The story follows a young ac\u00ac cock emerged as the actor who would nage angle (just as The 39 Steps is itself a tress Gane Wyman) as she and her father come closer than anyone to becoming the (Alastair Sim) try to clear her friend director\u2019s on-screen representative. In dress rehearsal for North by Northwest). (Richard Todd) from a murder charge. To Rope Stewart played the Nietzsche-influ\u00ac do this she must trick the victim\u2019s widow enced professor who unwittingly provides The hero is a screenwriter and the victim (Marlene Dietrich) into betraying herself. the philosophical underpinnings for the This much-underrated film is Hitchcock\u2019s ghastly deeds of his two students\u2014like an actress\u2014presaging Fright, where most straightforward meditation on theat\u00ac Hitchcock himself, a manipulator whose ricality, with most characters playing dou\u00ac manipulations have macabre results. In an actress heroine tries to save someone ble roles. A cinematic curtain actually rises Rear Window Stewart is a photographer\u2014 on the action, and the finale takes place on a a visual artist\u2014grounded in his Greenwich else from a murder charge. And water im\u00ac stage\u2014where a heavy \u201csafety curtain\u201d Village apartment with a broken leg. His comes down on the killer\u2019s head. boredom and insatiable curiosity lead him agery bulks large, both in an early scene into window-waitching voyeurism and' he All this symbolism to the contrary, the sniffs out a murder that takes place across where the real killer argues with his wife movie is shot through with whimsical the alley from his rear-window apartment, humor, which is neatly balanced with sus\u00ac using a telephoto lens as binoculars. Like and later, when her body is found on the pense in the unforgettable carnival the director, the Stewart character is mis\u00ac scene. And Truffaut to the contrary, Sim\u2019s anthropic and distrustful of relationships\u2014 beach; Hitchcock would make thematic use droll humor is one of the film\u2019s highlights even with the stunning Grace Kelly. Hitch\u00ac \u2014though he\u2019s no match for the sophisti\u00ac cock would continue to subvert Stewart\u2019s of water in more than a half-dozen later cated charm of Marlene Dietrich, who does likable nice-guy screen persona (exempli\u00ac a few musical numbers. Hitchcock observ\u00ac fied in Frank Capra\u2019s It's a Wonderful Life) movies. ers were amazed at the leeway he gave in the remade Man Who Knew Too Much, her in forming her image for the film as she where Stewart plays the cranky, In The Art of Alfred Hitchcock Donald insisted on, and got, the Josef von Stem- domineering doctor and husband to Doris berg-style lighting that accents her Day who \u201cknows too much\u201d but gets his Spoto points to other recurrent images: a timeless, luminous beauty. Apart fi'om a comeuppance. few missing frames, Warner\u2019s tape trans\u00ac scene in the woods recalls scenes in Vertigo fer makes this the best looking black & But with Hayes in his stable\u2014arguably white Hitchcock video. the best screenwriter he ever had, a warm Sind North by Northwest, the solicitor wears counterpoint to the image-driven intellec- Less successful is I Confess (1953), in tualism of his method\u2014Hitchcock waxed eyeglasses, a device later used by the which a script devoid of warmth and humor iconoclastic and decided to take a break and and an alcohol-addled, stonefaced Mont\u00ac tackle the first straightforward comedy he visually obsessive Hitchcock to indicate gomery Clift produce monotonously leaden had undertaken since Mr. and Mrs. Smith results. The familiar story of a man wrong\u00ac with Carole Lombard in 1941. The Trouble both moral blindness and, in time-honored ly accused of murder casts Clift as a priest, with Harry (1955) stars 79-year-old but beyond using the Catholic confession\u00ac Edmund Gwenn and a host of other charac\u00ac Potemkin fashion, fragility; a \u201ccliffhanging al as a plot device that prevents Clift from ter actors\u2014along with a young John P'or- exposing the true murderer, the movie sythe and a winningly perky 20-year-old scene in the darkness of a subterranean never explores the religious overtones Shirley MacLaine, in her film debut. involved; they just further weigh down the Gwenn stumbles across dead Harry while mine,\u201d Spoto says, \u201cprovides another proceedings. However, Warner\u2019s black & out for a shoot in the woods of rural New white transfer is nearly as good as its treat\u00ac parallel to North by Northwest, where an ment of Stage Fright. almost identical sequence occurs. It may also be compared to the clinging to roof\u00ac tops in Vertigo and to the Statue of Liberty in Saboteur\u201d\u2014a later film not to be con\u00ac fused with Sabotage, and yet unavailable on video. Finally, the crane shot that swoops in on the eyes of the guilty drummer prefig\u00ac ures a similar (and similarly famous) one in Notorious when the camera\u2019s eye de\u00ac scends to rest on the key in Ingrid Berg\u00ac man\u2019s hand. The Mature Hitchcock Double up^ America. The five Kartes releases show a young Two can ride cheaper than one.^ Hitchcock developing the devices that would be his stock in trade forever after in a surprisingly consistent body of work. But while the mature Hitchcock\u2014represented by another five releases from MCA and two firom Warner\u2014would stumble occa\u00ac sionally, it was in the latter three decades of his career that he produced his most enduringly profound work. Rope (1948) was the director\u2019s first inde\u00ac pendent production following his break with producer David 0. Selznick, to whom he had been contracted since coming to America in 1940. It is also his first color film and his most daring experiment in cine\u00ac matic technique, composed in 10-minute takes that completely eliminate the cross\u00ac cutting that dominates nearly all other movies ever made in favor of the moving camera. The story concerns two implicitly homosexual men who kill for thrills\u2014they strangle an old school friend, stuff his body in a trunk, and serve a buffet supper to his friends and family from atop the same trunk. The shocking story, and the mega\u00ac doses of misanthropic humor Hitchcock pumped into it, were so wiltingly repulsive to audiences and critics that the director had it withdrawn from circulation. I think it\u2019s a masterpiece, but only when I\u2019m in a bad mood. (Like the other four MCA re\u00ac leases, this one is an optimum video tran\u00ac","England, and what to do, what to do? In a ages of spirals underscore the vertiginous doors. That gives you time to strike your comedy of errors and indecision, Harry is affliction of obsession: in the graphics camera position inside the church and buried, dug up, buried again, dug up again; accompanying the head titles, in Novak\u2019s move your equipment to the reception and while there is a plot here somewhere, hairstyle (Hitchcock was obsessed with site. whimsy is the main point. women\u2019s hairstyles and had been caressing them with his camera since the \u201930s), in the When you arrive at the reception, one of Truffaut and Hitchcock himself said it winding staircase of the belltower where your first tasks will be to make the rounds best. Truffaut: \u201cThe whole humor of the the woman\u2019s death occurs, in the circular of the bride\u2019s and groom\u2019s fnends and rela\u00ac picture hinges on a single device: an atti\u00ac camera movements that accompany more tives and get their comments on tape. tude of disconcerting nonchalance. The than one scene\u2014especially the trancelike Occasionally you may find some of these characters discuss the corpse as casually kissing sequence with Stewart and Novak. folks are intimidated by the camera and\/or as if they were talking about a pack of Novak\u2019s wooden performance is the sub\u00ac reluctant to be taped at all. Be persistent cigarettes.\u201d Hitchcock: \u201cThat\u2019s the idea. ject of much disagreement, but about but polite, since their videotaped images Nothing amuses me so much as under\u00ac Stewart\u2019s there can be no doubt. His ago\u00ac will be of immense sentimental value to the statement. \u201d Spoto has a somewhat labored nized looks are cinematic acting art at its bride and groom (and other relatives) later suggestion about the film balancing \u201ca best\u2014straight out of D.W. Griffith. on, perhaps even after some of the older Gnostic-Puritan ethic\u201d and \u201ca Judeo- great aunts and uncles you tape have Christian optimism\u201d in its lighthearted Looking at Vertigo back to back with passed on. And there are many other oblig\u00ac juggling of sex and death. But it is Spoto Rope, a novice viewer might be forgiven for atory reception scenes to capture: cut\u00ac himself who wisely quotes Forsythe\u2019s re\u00ac wondering how they could have been made ting the wedding cake, the groom\u2019s brid\u00ac sponse to a prospective buyer of one his by the same director: one serious, com\u00ac al toast, the bride throwing her bridal paintings: \u201cDon\u2019t think I\u2019m rude, but it passionate, vulnerable: the other heart\u00ac bouquet. Try to get as much as you can on doesn\u2019t matter to me what a critic says. \u201d lessly comic and cold. With the publication tape: you can edit out the bad stuff later. If of Spoto\u2019s The Dark Side of Genius, the there\u2019s dancing, get a record of the bride Comedy was the furthest thing from Victorian gentleman who made both of and groom having their first round as a Hitchcock\u2019s mind when he made Vertigo them is finally pinned under the merciless married couple. 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