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["Videotests- both sets of numbers for awhile until you ease of operation, but using the subsidiary get accustomed to our new measure\u00ac controls requires reading the manual thor\u00ac perimenting can achieve the same goal. ments. Chroma AM noise was 47.8dB and oughly to understand them and a little ex\u00ac Setting the input and output switches is a chroma PM noise was 41.4dB, both un\u00ac perimentation to become thoroughly famil\u00ac weighted. Horizontal resolution was 250 iar with them. But that\u2019s the price you pay little more tricky, but even that can be lines. That is excellent performance. for a sophisticated machine with all the learned by trial and error. The areas where bells and whistles. So we reduce the ease- we recommend you go by the book are On Hi-Fi audio the results were no less of-operation reading to very good because audio dubbing and insert editing (video outstanding. Frequency response was 20 of complexity. dub). There, if you\u2019re not careful you can to 20,000 Hertz, +.2\/-2.1dB with a total ruin valuable recordings. We recommend harmonic distortion (THD) of less than 0.4 Conclusion. Overall the SV-R9900HF that you follow the book and do trial runs on percent, and wow and flutter was below is an excellent machine with attractive unimportant tapes before inserting new the 0.005 percent rated. On the linear looks and wide flexibility. It is a great pictures into important material. Again, tracks audio frequency response was 70 to choice for the sophisticated video buff who even the beginner need not be scared of 10,000 Hertz, +\/-3dB at SP, and 70 to wants the best. If you just want a great simple recording and playback operation. 6,000 Hertz, +\/-3dB at EP. THD on the picture and excellent sound, you may still linear tracks was less than 2.3 percent and want it\u2014but avoid the more exotic Performance. The SV-R9900HF worst-case wow and flutter was 3.8 per\u00ac controls at the beginning and learn them gives an excellent picture with very little cent. as the need arises. We recommend it high\u00ac noise. Video luminance noise was 43.4dB ly. At $1299, it\u2019s a bargain. unweighted and 48.3dB weighted using The basic controls rate an \u201cexcellent\u201d on our new noisemeter, and 46dB using our older equipment. We will continue to give Canon Portable 8mm VCR We\u2019ve been taking Because we remember how inconvenient And Canon is first to get that dream into a wait-and-see atti\u00ac seven-pound cameras are. That was a our hands. tude on 8mm from typical camera weight in December 1978, the time it was an\u00ac when we started doing these reviews. Actually Canon offers a complete 8mm nounced. Now, Then, we put the 22-pound recorders on system. The VCR and battery are 4 to Canon offers an the ground or broke the other shoulder 4-1\/2 pounds depending on what battery is 8mm system that carrying them. If you ask us, 4-1\/2 connected, the camera (reviewed else\u00ac has us excited. It pounds of recorder on our belts and 2 or 3 where in this issue) is a bit over 3 pounds, consists of 8mm \u201cseparates\u201d\u2014VCR, pounds of camera in our hands is a pleasant and the tuner\/timer or AC adapter stays camera, tuner\/timer, and AC adapter. Why combination. So it looks like the man\u00ac home. That\u2019s all the flexibility we could does that excite us more than camcorders? ufacturers are catching up with our dream. hope for. The real news is that the 8mm format is starting to grow up. (Tfewem\u00a9 viDeo action pac The VIDEO ACTION PAC is the only All of the materials used in a LowePro bag are carefully system available that serves as 3 carrying chosen and represent the highest quality available: Nylon systems in one for your VCR, CAMERA zippers and Delrin buckles will not scratch or chip video and ACCESSORIES: gear; high density \u201cclosed\u201d cell foam protects from shock with minimum weight; strong 11 ounce Waterblock Cordura\u00ae nylon shell ensures a lifetime of protection. (1) A supremely comfortable strap. (2) Can be used as a Action Pac into a convenient See this and the full LowePro line of high quality video backpack with a unique camera shoulder bag when accessing and trim carrying or storage bags. Compare quality, then get a LOWEPRO - it\u2019s guar\u00ac sling that removes the camera the VCR controls. (3) All straps case. (Fits under an airline anteed for life. 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Deluxe kit includes one TDK standard T-120 video tape, one TDK ties. A must for all enthusiasts on the go, this great stand carries yc high grade video tape, a wet system head cleaner and durable VCR VCR and battery pack, and folds into a functional luggage cart as we dust cover. #D240007-Camera Stand $66 ($5) #D170021-The Starter System VHS $49.95 (S3) #D170022-The Starter System Beta $49.95 ($3)","YOUR VIDEO STORE IN PRINT iimill in Anywhere Else! Oear Customer:","Videotests \u2014 The VCR is a full-feature machine that is remaining\/counter switching. Farther right Advance, Pause\/Still, Index, Auto Search, are the tape-transport controls in two and Repeat. Most of those controls are so much like familiar half-inchers that rows. Across the top row are Rewind, familiar, but the last three\u2014though their we\u2019ve found ourselves blinking to reas\u00ac Stop, Play, Fast Forward, and Record. names are descriptive enough\u2014are un\u00ac sure ourselves that we were not look\u00ac The Record button is red, but all the other usual and deserve further explanation. ing at a half-inch machine through the buttons (except Eject) are black. The Fast From play or stop mode, pressing index wrong side of our glasses. Canon\u2019s VR- Forward and Rewind buttons double as search causes the tape to rewind to the last E10 is a perfect miniature. Features like search controls. index mark on the tape. The VR-E10 puts search, Index search, and Auto search all an index mark on the tape every time you go to heighten the image\u2014and we like In the lower row are buttons for Frame what we see. Description. The recorder in Canon\u2019s 8mm system weighs a scant 3.2 pounds and measures 2-7\/16 inches high by 6-5\/16 wide by 7-5\/16 deep without battery. The BP-E10 battery pack supplied with the VCR adds about 1-1\/2 inches to its depth and 20 ounces to its weight, making a com\u00ac pact, light package. The AC adapter\u2014if used to power the VCR\u2014adds about three inches to its depth and charges batteries as well as powering the recorder. It\u2019s a mix\u00ac ture of dark and light blue-grey,with a black base and accessories. The VR-E10 has all the controls and features you\u2019d expect on a portable, plus a few niceties. The top is bare but for the cassette hatch. The front has a big blue Eject button at the top left comer. Next to it is the counter\/time-remaining indicator with an abbreviation for minutes, M for Memory, S for standby, and a battery- condition indicator. 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THE initiates a similar search, but in the forward SEARCH TEAM JAMES EARL JONES direction, and the VCR looks for the blanks between recorded segments. Repeat does .EAVES BEHIND just that\u2014repeat a selected segment five :lues for you to times. You go to the end of the segment, \u25a0IND $50,000 IN push in Repeat and hold it down, reverse fREASURE BURIED search to the start of the segment, then N SEVERAL release the Repeat button. The segment repeats five times. .OCATIONS On the black base from left to right are VCROSS THE U S. the camera jack, remote-control jack, tracking control, and at far right the power \u201cTHE MISSING YEARS\\\"TREASURE \\\"MICHIGAN RESIDENTS button. The supplied remote control offers c\/o COMMUNIQUE, INC. ADD 4% SALES TAX the same 10 transport controls on a 20- 404 LORAINE BLDG. foot cord. Just around the comer on the 124 E. FULTON right side of the VCR, and also on the black GRAND RAPIDS, MI 49503 base, are the video, audio, and RF outputs, 616-456-8936 followed by the adapter jack. At the top back is the Channel 3\/4 RF output selector NAME under a protective cover. The only other point of interest is the hole for the supplied ADDRESS _STATE_ZIP_ carrying strap. On the left side is a match\u00ac VHS \u25a1 BETA \u25a1 (ALLOW 4 TO 6 WEEKS FOR DEUVERY) ing strap hole and the release for the bat\u00ac tery. The back is bare but for grooves CHARGE TO MY \u25a1 VISA CARD \u25a1 MASTERCARD and contacts for the battery. MY CARD NUMBER IS _EXP. DATE--\u2014 The BP-E10 battery supplied is feature\u00ac less except for its grooves, contacts, and VOID WHERE PROHIBITED B CALL OR WRITE FOR QUANTITY PRICING INFORMATION an instruction label. It weighs about 20 ounces and powers the VCR for 85 min\u00ac utes. A smaller, lighter battery, the BP- Ell, is available. That 14 ounce battery powers the recorder for 40 minutes. The battery may be charged by either the matching tuner\/timer or the VP-E10 AC adapter. In either case, charging is complete when the charge indicator goes out. The battery should then be dis\u00ac connected. Attempting to charge a fully charged battery shortens its life. The AC adapter connects through the adapter ter\u00ac minal and provides for audio and video in\u00ac puts, not directly available on the machine. A separate jack on the other side is used for battery charging through an adapter. The tuner\/timer\u2014which we had a chance to use but not test\u2014offers the same facilities as the AC adapter plus its tuner and timer facilities. The tuner pro\u00ac vides for receiving cable Channels A to I and J to W in addition to the broadcast channels. The timer segment provides for taping up to four programs over two weeks. AFC is switch-selectable. It has the usual RF inputs and outputs plus video and audio inputs and outputs. Operation. Operation of the VCR is as simple as for a standard audio-cassette deck except for Index, Auto Search, and repeat, with those last two available on some of the more esoteric audio machines. (Of course Still and Frame Advance are not applicable for audio.) Just insert a cassette, attach a camera or tuner, and press Record and Play together for recording. For play\u00ac back attach a TV or monitor and press Play. Editing is possible but is not glitch- free unless the VCR remains in Record, 106 Video","AVAILABLE ON VIDEOCASSETTE World class, beautiful women, plus porno greats Harry Reems and Jamie Gillis make this flick a winner. RATED X Starring Angel, Ginger Lynn, v i] - ^ Harry Reems and Jam. > If you can\u2019t find this sizzler at your video store, send $89.95 to VMC, (Video Mailorder Company), 21540 Blythe Street, Canoga Park, CA 91304-4991. 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Whatever 1985 RCA Models Now Available! 90-minute cassette limit is not a bother\u2014 noise the instruments were measuring was but for taping off the air, be careful not to not obtrusive to the eye. On chroma AM CAMERAS run out of tape. The instruction manual is noise our instruments measured 46.9dB\u2014 thorough and answers most common prob\u00ac commendable in any format, and on chro\u00ac VKT275 VKP 170 CKC 021 lems. ma PM noise the result was a respectable 40.8dB. Performance. The picture is a little less sharp than on half-inch VCRs, with The 8mm format uses the AFM (audio horizontal resolution of 230 lines. Its frequency modulation) technique, similar VKT 385 VKP 900 CKC 031 VKT550 VKP 950 Test Report: Canon VR-EIO Portable 8mm Video Recorder VKT 650 DATA Counter digits: 4\/tape remaining in\u00ac dicator in minutes (5-minute increments) RCA Date of test: January 1985 Counter memory: yes Suggested retail price: $900, VCR; Program start locator\/index\/cue: In\u00ac To place your order with a company who offers $300, tuner\/timer (TT); $135, VP-E10 AC dex or Auto Search CUSTOMER TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE before power adapter; $55, BP-E10 85-min. bat\u00ac Audio dub: no and AFTER the sale, ACCESSORY SUPPORT tery (one supplied); $46, BP-E11 40-min. Video dub: no for their products and who specializes in. . . battery Auto rewind: in play mode only Weight: 3.2 lbs. without battery, VCR; Stereo: no EXCLUSIVELY RCil 4.2 lbs., TT; 1.5 lbs., AC adapter; 1.25 Hi-Fi: see text lbs., BP-E10; 14 oz\u201e BP-E11 Tuning method: varactor CALLS 1-800-368-5020 Dimensions: 2-7\/16 x 6-5\/16 x 7-5\/16 Channel selectors: 14 push-buttons inches (h\/w\/d), VCR without battery, 1-9\/ Preset method: 14 rotary band switches In Virginia 1-804-595-2572 16 inches deeper with BP-E10; 2-7\/16 x and rotary station selectors 10-1\/4 x 10-1\/4 inches (h\/w\/d), TT Cable readiness: 105 channels\u20142-6, 7- MON - FRI 9 AM - 9 PM(EST) Power requirements: 12VDC, 6.5W 13, A-I, J-W, 14-83 SATURDAYS 9 AM -6 PM (EST) (playback), 13.5W (record with matching AFT: switchable camera); 120VAC, 60Hz, 40W, TT Channel lock: yes VIDEO DIRECT DISTRIBUTORS Tape format: 8mm Timer: 4 programs, 2 weeks 116 Production Drive Tape speeds: 9.565 in\/sec (14.345 mm\/ Auto channel-change: yes Tabb, VA 23602 sec) Accessories: remote control, BP-E10 Play speed select: single speed battery, antenna cable and transformer, Still frame: yes shoulder strap, earphone Frame advance: yes Slow motion: by holding down Frame RESULTS & RATINGS Advance button Horizontal resolution: 230 lines Speed play: no S\/N, video luminance: 43.5dB Rapid search: see Cue & review weighted, measured; 46dB, rated Cue & review: 9X forward and reverse S\/N, chroma AM: 46.9dB, measured Visible FF and Rew: no S\/N, chroma PM: 40.8dB, measured Fast forward\/rewind time: 4 minutes Audio frequency response: 30- for P6-90 cassette 14,000Hz, -3dB Remote pause: on camera connector S\/N, audio: 69dB, measured; 70dB, rated Remote: wired with 20-foot cable and Audio distortion: 0.15% buttons for Play, Record, Stop, Frame Overall picture quality: good (see Advance, Pause\/Still, Rewind (Search), text) Fast Forward (Search), Index (Search), Audio quality: very good Auto Search, Repeat Ease of operation: excellent Separate eject: yes Overall performance: very good","Now, sciTech adds another dimension to special effects: Portable. 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MAGNAVOX","FREE Videotests VIDEO STORAGE CASE TO BEAUTIFY AND PROTECT YOUR VALUABLE TAPE 4 Vines or 1\u00ab\u00ab Soft ^ Vinyl MalUW**'1\\\" ofWU'OUl Construction imptii\\\" Gold Foil Imprints @ 35C Per Line Per Case Additional Min. Order 6 Cases @ 35C Price. Less Than 6 Case Min. $2.00 Per Line. The big news is that the little format is growing up. Just the sight of an 8mm cassette (perched atop the VHS cassette) is exciting. NEWEST SUPER DELUXE VIDEO CASES to that used in Beta and VHS Hi-Fi. The a component system with two speeds and VR-E10 delivers its rated 30 to 14,000 TDK showing a tape that achieves near Made ol attractive leatherlike 100% soft vinyl. The Hertz within 3dB, but we have measured half-inch quality from a Kodak camcorder, ultimate in quality, design, workmanship. These up to 15,000 Hz with the same tolerance on we\u2019re surer that the format will be cases are not to be contused with hard plastic, less other 8mm machines. We measured audio accepted. The first prerecorded 8mm soft\u00ac expensive cases on the market today. \u2018Free Case S\/N at 69dB, quite close to the rated 70dB, ware has also been announced. Just as with given with every order placed Irom this magazine. and harmonic distortion was less than 0.15 half-inch tapes, it\u2019s X-rated material, percent. of course. CUSTOM MADE FOR VMS OR BETAMAX Color Code Your Titles. Five exciting decorator Conclusion. When the 8mm format So if history is to repeat itself, all the colors. Brown Leatherette. Light Blue. Bed. Black was bom last year, we declined to make a pieces are in place. If you\u2019ve been eyeing prediction about its acceptance because of 8mm, the Canon system may be the place ORDER TODAY! OFFER LIMITED the limited appeal of camcorders. Now that to start: a familiar, logical set of separates SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR FULL REFUND Canon has broken the format down to a that you can update a piece at a time as the VCR, tuner\/timer, and camera we feel format progresses. The price is right, too, SAVE \u2022 S3.95 Retail Value \u2022 SAVE more positive. With Sanyo ready to market at $900. 6@$1.98EA. \u2022 12@$1.88EA. \u2022 24@$1.78 EA. \u2022 46 @ $1.73 EA. \u2022 96 @$1.68 EA \u2022 192 @ $1.63 EA. \u2022 240 @ $1.60 EA. \u2022 300 @$1.56 EA p irs 01 Deluxe Video Cases ~ Canon Color Camera \u25a1 VHS \u25a1 BETA k Red F\/_ k_Black #_Brown k_White Place imprint instructions on separate sheet Qty_Cases @-Each_= S- Canon is the first to However, it has so many features of the \u25a0*- release an 8mm largest consumer video cameras that it Qty_Foil Stamp @ component video compares favorably with the best of them. system, and it is not Heading the list of features is auto-focus, Shipping Charge Only $2.00 * *- surprising that a but following closely are a built-in one-line noted camera titler and stopwatch function, auto white Handling Charge C O D S2 00 - manufacturer balance, electronic viewfinder (EVF) with would make the on-screen display in words, and respect\u00ac IL Res. Only add 7% Sales Tax **- camera component of that system such an able light sensitivity of 20 lux. It is also no exciting competitor. Because it is intended slouch in the weight competition. At 3.3 0utsideCont.USAadd20cper\/cs.\u2018 *- for a system in which size is important, size pounds it is at the low end of midrange, and and weight are at the low end of traditional it is amazing how many features the de\u00ac TOTAL $- camera sizes. However, since it is divided signers crammed into such a small camera. :ome \u2014Very Competin' into separate units rather than crammed into a camcorder there is room for some of Description. The VC-200A has a nar\u00ac \u00bb OAKTON BOX 1937GR Oes Plainas. II 60018 the features typically left off camcorders. row body just 2-1\/2 inches wide, but with a So, in a sense, it is a small VHS-compatible handgrip on one side and an electronic 04 Hr CALL TOLL FREE 7Davs camera with a titler. viewfinder mounted like an outrigger That camera is the Canon VC-200A, and across the top, its overall dimensions are ADav '800-752-7777 . k for all practical purposes it looks like a 5-3\/4 inches high by 5-5\/16 wide by 9-13\/16 Huay In III. (\u25a13121O9r6d5e-0r 044DMoreH weeK slightly scaled-down standard camera. deep. On the right side is a comfortable Please Rush Informatioi handgrip with a depression on its top for Address . City_ State _ Payment \u25a1 Check \u25a1 C.O.D. $2.00 Extra \u25a1 Mst.Cd.\/Visa \u25a1 Am. Expr. Exp.Dt- Card No. _ $3.98 VALUE LOW AS $1.56","your fingers and an adjustable strap goes IF YOU OWN A VIDEO CAMERA, around the outside of your hand for extra THESE LENSES ARE A MUST! support and security. The only control on the grip is the VCR run\/pause button at the Make Your Camera a back, where it falls under your thumb. The Complete Video System jack for the detachable cable is on the front, and a clip on the security strap insures that PH! the cable will not stray in front of the lens. Also at the front is another jack that you 1.5XTELEPHOTO LENS CLOSE-UP\/WIDE-VIEW might miss because it is covered. It\u2019s for an optional remote control that gives you con\u00ac This is a double-element attach\u00ac trol over zooming and run\/pause. There are no other controls on the right side of ment. As a close-up, lets you move the camera. in tightly on small objects. Good On the back is a standby switch which offers positions for normal operation, and a for detailed shots, for example, a Gain Up high-sensitivity position. That is standard. Also on the back is a switch for enough to get the whole picture etc. with your camera. Or, take a wedding invitation. As a wide- BLC (back light control), and a jack for an external microphone. In a way, that back you want. Use it close up and you close-up of a near subject view, lets you get the entire shot panel may be viewed as the exposure- control panel. The camera may not be you want, even when you can\u2019t switched to manual iris control. move back any further. On the left side of the camera the con\u00ac trols fall into three distinct groups. Far\u00ac Each lens attachment comes complete with a carrying case thest forward are the zoom and focus rings and adapter rings to fit most video cameras. on the lens. Since you can control both functions from elsewhere, you\u2019ll hardly LENS OPTICAL SYSTEM MAGNIFICATION have to reach that far forward except to FISHEYE High Quality Coated - 3 element .42 X enter the macro focus range. Then you must pull out the stubby zoom lever to TELEPHOTO Multi-coated 1.5 X enter the macro range. However, you may CLOSE-UP\/WIDE-VIEW High Quality Coated. Maximum closeup: 13 cm. +1.7 diopter. .67 X power-zoom out of the macro range. SPECIAL FREE TOMORROW TODAY, INC., Dept V4 On what may be called the lens mount is OFFER! 4 New Hyde Park Rd. 800-231-0031 the second set of controls. In a direct line Franklin Square, NY 11010 (516)596-1211 with the center of the lens is the indoor\/ CLEAR OPTOHiNS CAP outdoor filter switch. A bit farther back is This protective lens cap covers Please send me the items checked below. I understand that if I am not the button to engage the auto white bal\u00ac your lens while in use. Wards off completely satisfied, I may return them for a full refund (exclusive of ance (AWB) circuitry, which you hold shipping) within 10 days. down only until the white balance is com\u00ac flying dust, sand, spray, etc. \u25a1 while you shoot, it's yours at \u25a1\u25a1\u25a1 FISHEYE Only $74.95 free cap. only $279.95 plete. Between these two is an in\/out no extra charge when you buy all TELEPHOTO Only $175.00 switch for a white filter. Under standard Close-Up\/Wide-View Only $69.95 procedure you point the camera at a white three lens attachments. SAVE $39.95! All three lenses, with object in the scene, zoom in on it until it fills the frame, and press the AWB button. If no Please add $3.00 shipping per order. Send check or m\u25a1onMevasotredreCra(rndo \u25a1C.OV.DIS.)A such object can be found you may balance payable to: tomorrow today, iNC.or charge it: the camera by switching in the white filter. Using a white object seems to give better results. A little below the AWB button is the auto-focus switch. It offers three choices: automatic, manual, and one-shot. The first two are obvious. In the one-shot position the automatic circuitry and motor are normally off, but pressing in on the switch engages the mechanism momen\u00ac tarily. It goes back to manual mode as soon as you release the pressure. The third group of controls is on the body just below the viewfinder. There are she buttons arranged in two rows of three. The two outer buttons in the top row con\u00ac trol the power zoom. The one in between them switches the zoom speed from low, its normal setting, to high. At the low set\u00ac ting, zooming from wide to tele takes about 10 seconds; at high it takes about 7 seconds. At neither setting is zooming so fast as to cause discomfort in your audience. Of course, you can always zoom faster manually, but be careful\u2014 zooming too fast can unsettle your audi- >n Reader Service Card.","Videotests ence. And that\u2019s bad. stopwatch. Of these, you may record title letters, numerals, and some punctuation The three buttons in the lower row per\u00ac and stopwatch onto your tape. In title marks. In title mode the two forward but\u00ac mode you may record one line of up to 12 tons let you select the letter position and form multiple functions. 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At Dimensions: 5-3\/4 x 5-5\/16 x 9-13\/16 the left of the screen is a pointer that tells inches (h\/w\/d) All the displays in the finder window are the approximate iris opening. If the pointer Power requirements: 12VDC, 6W on-screen, and most\u2019 are in words. The is too near the bottom you should select approx., 1.5W standby words are: W(hite) BAL(ance) OK, the Gain Up position or add more light. If it Image sensor: 1\/2-inch high-band Sat- BATTERY OK, ZOOM H or L, INDOORS is too near the top you should make sure or OUTDOORS, GAIN UP, and BLC. If you\u2019re in normal exposure mode and use a Lens: fl.2, 6X (8.5-51mm) two-speed power zoom with macro capability rwhite balance needs adjustment, the OK Filter diameter: 46mm AMBICO Minimum focusing distance: 1 meter Field at closest focus: 3 x 4 inches, VIDEO TRIPODS tele; 21 x 28 inches, wide angle QUALITY Minimum illumination: 20 lux in Gain STANDS ALONE Up position Auto Focus: yes, switchable to manual piRST N or one-shot focusing White balance: indoor\/outdoor switch plus automatic white balance at the touch of a button Iris: automatic with a BLC (back light control) Sensitivity: switchable with normal and Gain Up positions Viewfinder: 1-inch B&W electronic with all indicators on screen\u2014Gain Up, BLC, White Balance, low Battery, Indoors, Zoom Low (speed), auto focus target area and Record; built-in microphone and VCR running externally on both front and back Viewfinder controls: focusing magnifier Auto fade: no VCR controls: run\/pausc Microphone: built into EVF or external ' optional accessory Cable length: 5.9 feet, detachable Plug: miniature 10-pin type with one pin unused On-screen stopwatch: yes Titler: 1 line, 12 character (all caps) posi\u00ac tioned at the bottom of the frame Accessories: lens cap, lens hood, remote control cap, camera cable, supplied; 1.4X tele-converter, filter, super-directional mic (DM-100), chest pod (CP-3), zoom re\u00ac mote control (ZR-20), camera extension cable (C-10R, optional) RESULTS & RATINGS Horizontal resolution: 270 lines, rated and measured S\/N, video luminance: 45dB, rated; 44.6dB, measured Color: very good under daylight, under incandescent light blues and purples are a little weak Overall picture quality: very good Audio frequency response: 100 to 13,000 Hz, -3dB Audio quality: average\/good Ease of operation: excellent Overall performance: very good Call for the name of your neutral-density filter if the scene is still too bright. ^ nearest dealer, or send $1.00 The EVF is permanently attached but for complete catalog to: AMBICO, 101 Horton Avenue, may be twisted so it runs in the same direc\u00ac tion as the camera body for transport and Lynbrook, NY 11563 516-887-3434 storage. Its single control is a focus wheel for its flip-up magnifier. On top it sports an accessory shoe, and on its front is a per-","","Videotests manent microphone which is disconnected instruction manual is clear and informative. close to its 45dB rating. Color rendition in if you plug in an external microphone. On And the RF mechanism does relieve you daylight is excellent, but under low artificial both the front and back are LEDs that blink light the blues and magentas are a little when the VCR is running, and the legend of the worst nuisance in making tapes: out- weak. There is no color fringing and very REC appears on the EVF screen. The of-focus pictures. You still may have to little comet tailing when you pan across viewing hood may be turned from straight resort to manual focus for dark or shiny bright objects. Overall the picture is very downward to straight up for convenient objects and subjects with Strong horizontal good. viewing at any shooting angle. or vertical patterns. Otherwise shooting is a breeze. On audio, with the built-in mic, perfor\u00ac Operation. The only complex opera\u00ac mance is average\/good with a frequency tion in using the camera is selecting be\u00ac Performance. Despite its small size, response of 100 to 13,000 Hertz at the tween display stopwatch and title modes, the VC-200A produces very good pictures -3dB points. We did not test the optional and they are best learned by trying them. thanks to its high-band half-inch Saticon. It super-directionai mic, but Using one is Otherwise the 200A is easy to use and the offers a horizontal resolution of 270 lines usually a good idea. with a signal-to-noise ratio of 44.6dB, very Conclusion. The VC-200A is very good as an overall performer and is quite competitive with half-inchers. You might even want to mate it with a standard VHS VCR or with a Beta using an adapter. Of course, it is a perfect mate for Canon\u2019s 8mm system, for which it is intended. Either way it is a good Value at $1000 list. (For comparison, reread the review of the Minolta K-520S AF reviewed in December 1984 and the Sanyo VSC800 in October 1984. The Sanyo camera was designed to be used with its 8mm system, to be released soon.) C.O.D. Mon-Thurs 8-8 Bib Video Alarm Friday 9-8 Saturday 10-5 We hope neither you nor any of your For additional information, circle No. 54 Reader Service Card. friends have lost a VCR \u2014but we have, and in addi\u00ac tion to the mone\u00ac tary loss, we felt our right to privacy had been invaded by the burglars. Now, with Bib\u2019s introduction of a burglar alarm for VHS VCRs, you can have a deterrent that will most likely scare a burglar into leaving your VCR and other possessions behind. The alarm emits a loud, piercing noise likely to make the burglar forget about anything other than being someplace else. Description. The Bib Video Alafm looks a lot like a standard VHS videocas\u00ac sette without the protective flap that cov\u00ac ers the tape. However, on the top surface, in the middle of where the label would be, is a hole that is a smidgen smaller than a dime. Beneath it is a loud buzzer-like noisemaker. Along its back edge is a key switch at the extreme right, and near the center are a pushbutton and red LED for battery testing. The sides appear normal, but on the bottom the tape reels are miss\u00ac ing. Instead, opposite the key there is a battery compartment for a single nine-volt battery, and extending forward from the blank hole near the key end is a narrow slot. When the key is turned, a projection pokes through that slot\u2014but it is spring- loaded like a door latch. It lets you insert the alarm cassette into a VCft, but pre\u00ac vents you from removing it without the correct key. The alarm is supplied in a","THE SOPER GAMES SUPERMARKET It\u2019s all here. interest you should know The newest, best, before you buy! most challenging games for the It\u2019s the 1984 Atari, Commodore, SOFTWARE Apple and IBM ENCYCLOPEDIA . . . computers . . . and produced, directed the Colecovision, and brought to you Atari, Vectrex by the Editors of and Intellivision ELECTRONIC GAMES videogame systems! Magazine. 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! ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! Yes, I\u2019m game to check it out! Send me EG\u2019s 1984 SOFTWARE ENCYCLOPEDIA (at $3.95 + $1.00 postage and handling for each copy ordered) right away! Name---;-(lea-\u2014--- Address__ -*-\u2014-*-\u25ba- City_____State---Zip. Number of copies ordered:--\u2014--\u2014-- 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","Videotests DATA Date of test: December 1984 Brand and model: Bib, Video Alarm, VE-39 Manufacturer: Bib, Division of Kelsey Industries, Inc.; in U.S., Bib Audio Video Products, 3595 S. Teller\u2014Suite 402, Lakewood, Colorado 80235 Function: motion-detector alarm to deter theft or unauthorized use of VHS VCRs Suggested retail price: $39.95 Dimensions: standard VHS cassette, 1 x jbw ^AAAnftA CALL TOLL FREE ORDERS ONLY Illi \/MU CAMERA 1-800-221-1926 160 Broadway New York N.Y. 10038 RCA w\/Rebate PANASONIC HITACHI NEC CANON COPIER VKT 275 $339.95 VT88A . 599.95 VKT300 369.95 PV 5400 $549.95 VT8P 740.95 CT 1901 A. 47 PC-10 . 489.95 PV 5800 599.95 VT34A. . 379.95 CT 2501 A 62 PC-20.. 659.95 PV 6600 VT89A. . 869.95 VC20N . 32 PC-25 . 899.95 PV 8500 OLYMPUS CALL FOR VC40N . 39 SONY PV 8600 VC 105 . 649.95 SONY TV\u2019S VC 739E 64 HI FI 9600.979.95 VC 106 . IN STOCK SL 2300 $339.95 PK 558 . 549.95 VR 208 . 209.95 833EU 52 SL 2400 349.95 VX 304. CALL 895 Ell . 82 SL 30 . . 379.95 MINOLTA VC 70N . 69 SL 60 . . 799.95 V 770S. CALL SL 2710 659.95 T770S . 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Then press the battery Test button and press the Eject button\u2014but be ready to loaded with this cassette, and trying the make sure the red LED lights before going insert the key to turn it off because that any further. The projection will come out, movement will trigger it. You will have to cassette by itself to measure how much and you have 15 seconds to load the cas\u00ac insert the key and turn it before you can sette into the VCR. The cassette can be remove the cassette from the VCR. Be\u00ac movement it took to set off the alarm. We removed only by inserting the key and cause it can\u2019t be removed without a key, turning it to the \u201coff\u2019 position. After 15 and because it makes so much noise, it also measured the level of the noise it seconds, the alarm is armed. Almost any prevents unauthorized use of the VCR. movement will set off a piercing noise\u2014 The instructions for use are on a printed made. Outside the VCR it does deliver the and few burglars want to be caught with a label on the top side of the cassette. 98dB that Bib says. The measurable noise while it is inside the VCR depends on the construction of the VCR, and was over 85dB on all VCRs we tried. If you\u2019re very careful it is possible to lift the VCR straight up without triggering the alarm, but it must be held perfectly flat and moved slowly. However, if you attempt to walk with it the alarm goes off almost im\u00ac mediately. In fact, the cassette can be tilted as much as 20 degrees without triggering the alarm, but none of us could move it horizontally for more than a foot or two without triggering it. We did not attempt to check battery life, and Bib doesn\u2019t say how long a battery will last, but the test button assures you that there is enough power left in the battery to sound the alarm. On a fresh battery we let the alarm run for several periods of 10 seconds with no noticeable loss in vol\u00ac ume. Ouch! Conclusion. Burglars don\u2019t usually take much time when removing your posses\u00ac sions, so they will most likely trigger the alarm and the surprise will help convince them to leave in a hurry. Bib gives a sug\u00ac gested retail price of $39.95 for the Video Alarm, and that seems a fair price for a product that could save you hundreds of dollars. We recommend it highly. Ci For additional information, circle No. 56 on Reader Service Card. Greatest Stories continued from page 69 famed chariot race. The movie is episodic: Ben-Hur is im\u00ac prisoned, meets Jesus, spends three years as a galley slave, fights in a sea battle, becomes a Roman citizen, battles Messala, rescues his family from a leper colony, wit\u00ac nesses the events leading up to the crucifi\u00ac xion of Christ. Jesus is a figure in the film (it opens with his birth), but He is subtly used, crossing Ben-Hur\u2019s path at key plot points (He gives Ben-Hur water; the favor is re\u00ac turned on Calvary). The religious events are trimmings that help focus the story on its theme: the dan\u00ac ger of becoming what you hate. The movie holds your interest because it keeps its attention centered on this idea\u2014on the transforming effect of Ben-Hur\u2019s hatred of Messala\u2014and on its converse, the forgiv\u00ac ing power of love as epitomized by Christ. Heston justly won an Academy Award for his complex picture of a flawed, driven man. As for the transfer: the print\u2019s colors are washed out, with reds once again predomi\u00ac nating. The end of Tape I is abrupt, but the pans and scans are fairly well-done and","ML-U-UNE ELECTRONICS L. T. D. VIDEO VALUES FOR THE LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE AND ADVICE! TOLL FREE 722-7778 0ItCJI Quasar. JVC Panasonic NECHITACHI MAGNAVOX SONY SANYO FULL LINE OF ACCESSORIES r FREE! *25.\u00b0\u00b0 BONUS WITH ~! 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When he Alfonzo, A1 Kadir, Don Diego, and other starred in this 12th-century adventure doesn\u2019t get it, he kills Loren\u2019s father in a unknown notables. And Heston\u2019s El Cid story about Spain\u2019s nearly legendary hero sword fight. Loren\u2019s father, with his dying character is a concept, not a person: so El Cid (The Lord), who successfully led the breath, then asks Loren to avenge him. noble, so perfect that he becomes dull after Spanish against an invasion by the Moors. She does so by marrying Heston but hating about 30 minutes, making the movie a him. This goes on for a good hour before series of meaningless battles. This movie was the beginning of the end the two make up. It\u2019s typical of the convo\u00ac of the epic form, taking the idea of honor luted storyline that cripples the film. The film is not helped by the transfer. El and virtue to a ridiculous extreme. Get Cid was shot in widescreen and characters this: Heston is engaged to Sophia Loren El Cid tries to be a big epic like Ben- are constantly cropped out during conver\u00ac sations. The poorest moments occur dur\u00ac LASER LASER ing a dramatic joust: most of the tension is dissipated by confusing panning-and-scan- dicital dicital dicital dicital ning which makes it unclear who is who or what is going on. There also seem to be SOUND SOUND SOUND SOUND some registration problems: image and col\u00ac Import Import Import or fluctuate badly at the opening. Once Import again the colors are washed out or too bright, with reds predominating. NEW RELEASES (5) Cleopatra (1963). El Cid may have been bad, but it made money. This turkey Once upon a Time in America (35 98). The Woman in Red (26.95). Bo Derek's Bolero killed the epic form more or less per\u00ac (Uncut) (31.45). Star Trek III DIGITAL SOUND (26.95). Firestarter (31.45). Conan the manently and nearly closed its chief inves\u00ac Destroyer (31.48). Another Country (31.45). Star Wars CAV (44.98). Empire Strikes Back tor, Twentieth Century-Fox, as well. CAV (44.98). Mary Hartman II (31.45). Carlin on Campus (26.95). Kool & the Gang DIGITAL SOUND (22.45). Randy Newman (22.45). Streets of Fire (31.48). Attack Force Z The story behind the screen is actually (26.95) more interesting than the one on it. Begun in 1958, the film was started and stopped Above Prices 10% Off List. Call for up-to-date Release Information. four times. It had two different directors, two Caesars, two Antonys\u2014blit only one VIDEODISCS UNDER $10 VIDEODISCS Cleopatra. She was, of course; Elizabeth Taylor, and she demanded $125,000 for 16 Duran Duran, Kim Carnes. Missing Persons. Stray Cats, Phil Collins, Iron Maiden. Sheena weeks\u2019 work, $50,000 for every Week of Easton, Kajagoogoo, Minor Detail, David Bowie. Motels work that went over schedule (that even\u00ac tually amounted to about 104 weeks), Call for more bargains! $3000 a week for expenses, and 10 percent of the gross. She got it all\u2014and not only LASER VIDEODISCS WITH fl!) pioneer that: her third husband, Eddie Fisher, re\u00ac portedly was paid $1500 a day to see that WE CARRY: LD-660's she turned up for work. LD-700\u2019s All this is reflected on the screen. The CLD-900's movie is an opulent, irresponsible bore dominated by Taylor\u2019s Cleopatra, a spoiled CALL FOR PRICE bitch fashion plate who wears about 15 WE ALSO ACCEPT CED TRADE-INS different hairstyles in the course of the story. The film\u2019s only saving grace is Rex 1-800-VHS-DISC Harrison (who called the movie a \u201cbizarre\u201d experience) as Caesar. He is witty and _ the 617-890-9262 (retail) Shipping Charge: charming, an oasis of sanity among the \u2022mutant 617-890-5384 (mail order) goings-on. When he disappears at the end 800-VHS-BETA (MA) UPS $3.00 for First Disc. $.50 fc of Part I, Burton\u2019s Marc Antony takes replay each additional\u2014call for prices over, just as sour and self-pitying a charac\u00ac 800-VHS-DISC (US) other carrier preferred. ter as his Marcellus in The Robe. It\u2019s hard 800-THE-INST (Canada) to believe that Taylor and Burton began their off-screen romance here, since their 479 Winter Street, Waltham. A 02154-1216 on-screen affair is tepid. Rt. 128 - Exit 48W - Adjacent to Twin Cinema Open 10-7 M-F Sat. till 5 Cleopatra is a pointless movie with no message except don\u2019t fall in love, and it is a For additional information, circle No. 60 on Reader Service Card. near-total failure except in the transfer. The colors are rich and vivid and the pan\u00ac ning and scanning done skillfully, usually corresponding well with the on-screen action. The widescreen ratio is well-han\u00ac dled, with actors only occasionally cropped out of a scene noticeably. Too bad the film is not worth the extra effort that apparently went into the tape. (6) The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964). This one suffered from the Cleopa-","tra backlash and its failure destroyed the living skeletons (the \u201cChildren of the Hy\u00ac queen and thus sows the seeds of destruc\u00ac company that produced it. The Fall of the dra\u2019s Teeth,\u201d to be more precise). tion for the Round Table. Roman Empire is a series of battles and intrigues only worth watching for some As with DeMille, the story and dialogue None of the mythic qualities of the nice turns by Alec Guinness and James are pretty hokey\u2014but the special effects Arthurian legend are captured, and the Mason as two thoughtful Romans. Stephen are wonderful, skillfully achieved through whole movie has the dried-out prepack\u00ac Boyd, in a role rejected by Charlton Hes\u00ac the painstaking stop-motion process (the aged look of a bad Broadway musical. It is ton, is dull as the hero, though Sophia frame-by-frame animation of three-dimen\u00ac justifiably one of the 40 biggest flops of all Loren is as beautiful as ever. The movie sional figures). The skeleton fight, for in\u00ac time, though the transfer is fine, with rich details Guinness' and Boyd\u2019s attempts to stance, is a frenetic, brilliantly chor\u00ac color and fairly smooth scanning (in some deal with the barbarian hordes. They fail, eographed (and tongue-in-cheek) battle scenes, however, a simple crop would naturally, but take nearly three hours that becomes even more wonderful when have been better\u2014and clearer). to do it. you realize that it is staged between six- (9) Excalibur (1981). John (Deliverance) foot men and six-inch miniatures. Boorman\u2019s retelling of the Arthurian story The transfer crops people out in conver\u00ac certainly has more meat than the tepid sations, scans obtrusively, and offers Jason and the Argonauts is the stuff of 1967 musical, but also has its own failings. murky color. Overall, The Fall is one dreams, cleverly tapping into a childhood The film is a sometimes mystical, mostly to avoid. love of fairytales and an adult longing for gory rendition of what Mallory tells us hap\u00ac the simplicity of myth. It is complemented pened to the king and his cohorts in his The Myth as Epic by Bernard Herrmann\u2019s throbbing score Morte dArthur. Those familiar with the (7) Jason and the Argonauts (1963). and colorful Greek locations. poem or the history might have better luck After Cleopatra, the successful epic was understanding some of the events. Others forced to take a new form, drawing its The transfer is excellent with fine color will at times find themselves wondering inspiration from classical antiquity and re\u00ac reproduction and only occasional problems who is who, and why they are fighting so lying more on special effects than ever be\u00ac with scratches and splices on the print. fiercely. fore. Jasoti, the best example of this new Scanning and panning are unobtrusive. form, is the work of special-effects wizard (8) Camelot (1967). Lemer & Loew\u2019s last Nonetheless the movie, which tries to Ray Harryhausen (The Seventh Voyage of Broadway musical, an adaptation of T.H. cover too much, has its moments, most of Sinbad, Clash ofthe Titans). Following the White\u2019s The Once and Future King, be\u00ac them taken by Nicol Williamson\u2019s Merlin. adventures of Jason and his men in search came this overblown film, directed by He plays the character as a figure out of of the magical golden fleece that will make Joshua Logan as though he were doing a nightmare\u2014sometimes friendly, some\u00ac him ruler of ancient Greece, the movie TV variety show. Richard Harris is Arthur, times creepy, but always there at the right offers the 50-foot bronze giant Talos, the given to long speeches to himself, theoriz\u00ac time. His is the most vivid performance; flying Harpies, the seven-headed Hydra, ing about the issues facing the world; everyone else is more or less a cipher, lost the gigantic Olympian gods (and Olympus Vanessa Redgrave is Guinevere (\u201cJenny\u201d in the battles, spells, and speeches. (The itself), Poseidon holding apart the to her friends), a fairly no-nonsense sort worst comes from Arthur, when he de\u00ac \u201cclashing rocks,\u201d and the sword-wielding who has a good voice; and Franco Nero is cides how he will form the Round Table in a an Italian-accented Lancelot (\u201cLance\u201d), kind of You Are There monologue.) The who of course betrays Arthur by loving the WE'VE GOT IT Ml TOGETHER WITH. THE 1985 VIDEO TEST ANNUAL AND BUYER\u2019S GUIDE The convenient all-in-one resource every video hobbyist should have within reach The VIDEO Test Annual and Buyer\u2019s Guide is filled with complete and compre\u00ac hensive test results on products that range from VCRs to batteries . . . Tests performed by Berger-Braithwaite Labs are in-depth reviews and evaluations of the operation, performance and overall quality of selected video equipment and accessories. Plus practical tips that will help you get the most use and enjoyment from your video purchases. Ifyou\u2019ve missed any issues of VIDEO or are tired of searching for information you need quickly... invest only $3.95 in the VIDEO Test Annual and Buyer\u2019s Guide. It could be your most valuable video accessory. Please send me_copies of Name-- the 1985 VIDEO Buyer\u2019s Address_ Guide at $3.95 + $1.00 for City-State-i postage and handling per copy. I am enclosing $_ Payment must accompany all orders. MAIL TO: VIDEO Buyer\u2019s Guide, 460 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001","transfer is fine, with no noticeable tracking with three wise men following a star\u2014but The Pythons\u2019 earlier Holy Grail mined or scanning problems. to the wrong baby.) Brian is constantly the Arthurian vein, though less successful\u00ac being mistaken for the Messiah in the ly. It is episodic, like Excqlibur, featuring The Epic Parodied movie and in the process becomes involved the quest, a pompous Arthur, and some (10) Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian with an inept Jewish rebel group (the Peo\u00ac hilarious sequences involving the Holy (1979)\/Monty Python and the Holy ple\u2019s Liberation Front of Judea, bitterly Hand Grenade, the killer rabbit, a knight Grail (1975). With the epic dead (reborn opposed to a rival group, the Judean Peo\u00ac who wants to keep fighting even after all as the mini-series on TV), the British Mon\u00ac ple\u2019s Front), a lisping Pontius Pilate (who his limbs have been cut off, and a balladeer ty Python troupe resurrected the form and sounds like Porky Pig and has a friend, who sings nobly about his master\u2019s cow\u00ac parodied it in these two films. Bigus Dickus, who \u201ccame all the way from ardice. There\u2019s also a bouncy song-and- Wome\u201d), and a man who keeps getting dance number called \u201cKnights of the Round Brian is the better of the two, if only crucified for a lark. The climax finds the Table.\u201d because it sticks more closely to a coher\u00ac cast on crosses singing a Camelot-style ent plot, neatly spoofing conventions of the number called \u201cAlways Look on the Bright Both films are adequately transferred, genre. (In fact, the pre-credits sequence is Side.\u201d though some of the colors are washed out. a direct takeoff of the opening oiBen-Hur. Nonetheless, both bring welcome relief from the weight and virtue of sqme of the epics, recalling the greatnesses\u2014and the absurdities\u2014of a once-proud form. Q What's New continued, from page 74 For additional information, f No. 62 on Reader Service Card. $300-$350 range\u2014by saying it will have \u201cmainly industrial and\/or commercial appli\u00ac cations\u201d (it\u2019s just to the trade, don\u2019t y\u2019know). Quasar spokesmen say the deck is \u201cideal for sales forces as a presentation tool,\u201d and also perfect for sale to deck- rental shops. But they admit we\u2019ll be seeing it in retail stores too. It will be fascinating to see exactly how deeply we come to love these VCPs. Will we become a nation of prerecorded tape watchers\u2014boob tubers redux\u2014or will we continue to want our taping and time shifting? Tune in next year. ...And Everything Nice Video accessory makers have to eat too, and they want us to help them. Here\u2019s a random sampling of some products you may be inclined to support. The VCR Rabbit by Envision Systems is a two-piece system (one module for transmitting, the other for receiving) which you can use to send a video signal from your VCR or disc player to any TV in your home. Clever little rabbit: it bumps down the signal, sends it through your house wiring, then bumps it back up to RF level at the plugged-in TV of your choice. To send to more TVs, simply add more solid-state receiver modules. (Suggested list price, for the Rabbit T100 is $99.95; additional receivers are $39.95 apiece.) The VideoCaster from Quantec In\u00ac ternational achieves a similar effect through the airwaves, making any man\u2019s home his own LP (low power) broadcasting station. The VideoCaster sends a low pow\u00ac er signal up to 40 feet, to any antenna. It works best with rabbit ears. (Sug\u00ac gested list price for the VideoCaster is $119.95.) Both Fosgate and SSI have new rear- channel Surround Sound decoders. Fos- gate\u2019s 360\u00b0 Space Matrix 3601 Direc\u00ac tional Processor ($624.95 with remote) claims to provide \u201ccleaner and more trans\u00ac parent\u201d sound than previous surround re-","Heart disease Put your and stroke money where will cause half your Heart is. of all deaths ^^ American thisyear. \u25a0 \u25a0Heart Association WE'RE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE FOR INFO, PRICES AND CUSTOMER SERVICE 1-718-438-3007 SUN: 11am - 5pm \/ MON\u2014THUR: 9am - 9pm \/ FRI: 9am - 4pm JUST ACCESSORIES OUR ONLY BUSINESS! 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Using another amplifier, make con\u00ac is much greater. And if you have noise the networks will broadcast many Holly\u00ac nections to a \u201ctape output\u201d instead of the reduction on your recorder or disc player wood films in stereo. speakers. (Dolby for VHS machines, CX for LV play\u00ac ers), use it. It will greatly improve the Not every stereo movie has a surround In either case, be careful making these sound. track, however. Some films were decoded connections. A wrong wire can short the before transfer to tape, which ruins the output of your amplifier and cause prob\u00ac If you don\u2019t have a stereo recorder or surround information. Two examples of lems. And don\u2019t tfy this scheme on old disc player, you can also hear surround this are the early videodisc versions of high-powered or tube-type amplifiers. sound from a stereo film soundtrack deliv\u00ac Alien and The Elephant Man. (Both have Though Dynaco (which itself made high- ered via cable TV. At the time of this since been remastered to correct this quality audio gear) recommended this sys\u00ac writing, the Movie Channel was the only error.) The Black Stallion, which critics tem, some audio engineers were skeptical pay-TV network playing films in stereo, of the strain it could put on an old amp. When you fire up the system and play a stereo videodisc or videocassette, you\u2019ll probably be astounded by what you hear. There, in all its glory, is that Dolby Sur\u00ac round track. For best results, sit between the front and rear speakers. If you can, turn off the front speakers and listen just to the back. There, you\u2019ll notice, are environ\u00ac mental sound effects and music. Dialogue, though, will be suppressed, and most will be almost unintelligible in a well-mixed Dol\u00ac by Surround track. How do the results of this \u201cbrute force\u201d decoding method differ from what you\u2019ll hear coming from a more expensive de\u00ac coder? Well, when using any decoder which has a delay line, the dialogue that accidentally makes it through the back speaker\u2014called \u201cleakage\u201d by I takes on an ec active logic circ and lower the level of the surround track. You\u2019re also like in the back c ror,\u201d using this Experiment and try listening to a con\u00ac ventional stereo record or audio tape. You\u2019ll hear some interesting things in the back speaker, but not because they\u2019re sup\u00ac posed to be there. It\u2019s more error that\u2019s just inherent in most stereo recordings. The surround channel may also be clut\u00ac tered with high-frequency sounds in cer\u00ac tain scenes. The sounds of glass shatter\u00ac ing, steam hissing, or paper rustling, for instance, resist phase encoding. In live concert recc rustling and applause\u2014may appear at the back of the n was mastered fc cause those noises, coupled with the natu\u00ac ral acoustics of the hall and front-to-back delay time, yield phase information. Still, Tim Prouty, who oversees video for Dolby Labs, confirms that this s nected properly, that comes out' tation\u2014minus, i noise reduction a; Beyond that, you will be pleased y the results qf this inexpensive experime In fact, i sound with\u2019s response than in a Dolby Stereo film 35mm film which, even with Dolby\u2019s im\u00ac","cited for its excellent sound, has no sur\u00ac the last concert by the Who. It was mixed, studios may not indicate which films use round track either, according to Prouty. live, through a DS-4 encoder. surround, and some are more concerned with maintaining the integrity of the origi\u00ac Yet some video versions of movies Dolby notes that only certain video pro\u00ac nal stereo track than others. Tim Prouty which you would not expect to use sur\u00ac grams carry its trademark. VHS linear- cites MGM\/UA and Warner Home Video round have been specially re-recorded. track stereo tapes can use it to indicate as being particularly careful with their Twentieth Century-Fox mastered The that Dolby-B noise reduction was used, but soundtrack mastering, and says that Dolby Sound of Music and other older stereo this doesn\u2019t necessarily indicate that the was especially impressed with RCA\/Co\u00ac films for video using Dolby\u2019s DS-4 en\u00ac surround track was mastered intact. Laser lumbia\u2019s video version of The Right Stuff. coder, and Warner Brothers completely videodiscs, since they use CX noise reduc\u00ac remixed the 1954 Judy Garland version of tion instead of Dolby, do not carry the After listening to Dolby surround sound, A StarIs Bom for Dolby. RCA\/Columbia\u2019s trademark. MCA now indicates which of its you may be hooked enough to purchase disc of Lawrence ofArabia has a very good films have surround information encoded. one of the consumer rear-channel de\u00ac surround track too. One example of a (Even so, at least one release, D. C. Cab, coders. The results are almost sure to be made-for-video presentation that uses does not have a legitimate surround chan\u00ac more pleasing, especially to hardcore audio Dolby Surround is CBS\/Fox\u2019s recording of nel though it was marked that it did.) Other buffs. Yet our \u201ccheap surround\u201d will be all that many video fans need to bring home the most impressive sound in movies. Q I.R.S. SALE Heard Any Movies? (INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE) continued from page 81 OVERSTOCK SPECIALS! on video release. Francis Coppola, for instance, isn\u2019t NOT rental tapes, or distress dealer stock. 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Jung says few r Good Girls of Godiva of his film projects warrant the added ex\u00ac \u2605 Blondes Have More Fun r Hard Soap, Hard Soap y Randy the Electric Lady pense of digital soundtracks. Still, he r Pizza Girls emphasizes that high-quality audio-for- \u2605 Bordello r Hot Rackets y Reflections video is already pressuring changes in how r Health Spa film sound is done. \u201cIf theater owners don\u2019t \u2605 r Inside Desiree Cousteau y Ring of DeStfe^d-^ watch out, people aren\u2019t going to go to the \u2605 r Inside Jennifer Wells movies anymore,\u201d Jung says. \u201cMovies will Blo\u00a9tft\u00abfiB6&#Lace y Rocking with Seka be consumed in the home, not in the movie Candy Goes to theater. Beta Hi-Fi and VHS Hi-Fi, with y Satisfiers of Alpha Blue virtually [but not quite] digital sound, will Hollywood make the difference. If theater owners y Scent of Heather don\u2019t figure out a way to provide digital sound in their theaters, it\u2019s going to be a \u2605 Candy Stripes y Seduction of Lynn Carter dying industry. \u201d \u2605 Champagne for Breakfast y Sensations Some film producers also feel that the added expense of digital soundtracks for \u2605 Cherry Truckers y Sex Boat their films (about 10 to 20 percent more) isn\u2019t warranted by current theatrical audio\u00ac \u2605 The China Cat y Sex Wish playback capabilities. For example, while the soundtrack to Milos Forman\u2019s \u2605 China Lust y Sexworld Amadeus was digitally recorded for its re\u00ac lease on Compact Disc last fall, the film \u2605 China Sisters y Small Town Girls sound itself was a lower-grade analog ver\u00ac sion. Still, others feel that digital theater \u2605 y Star Virgin sound will be a reality in a few years, and it\u2019s time to get ready now. 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While some film producers can explain There is still no theatrical digital \u201cdeliv\u00ac Jung\u2019s digital sound efforts as the result of a ery system\u201d though numerous experi\u00ac director who has bottomless pockets, ments are underway. The renowned Glen other recent movie soundtracks feature Glenn television sound company (which high-end audio with the visuals on a shoe\u00ac began the '50s with thelLove Lucy series) string. Rock group Talking Heads\u2019 concert is working with Sony to produce a film film Stop MakingSense was produced with playback system that can synchronize a digital soundtrack, and is most certainly 70mm film with an industrial-grade Com\u00ac slated for home-video release. The movie pact Disc player. 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Total Moorer, director of digital audio research budget: less than $1 million\u2014a mere pit\u00ac at Lucasfilm, \u201cYou have two problems: tance in strict Hollywood terms. One is theater owner inertia. The other is Art vs. Technology that distributors want the sound attached But attention to technical detail is to be to the film itself.\u201d That will leave home video as the dominant source of qualitv- expected from this band of former art sounding visuals for quite some time. students. Songwriter\/frontman David The coming move toward dual-channel Byrne lifted the group\u2019s name from a TV broadcast television is, in itself, expected Guide description for a television talk to create the environment for high-quality show, while the group\u2019s press releases motion-picture and in-concert living-room maintain that Byrne prefers reading \u201ctech\u00ac sound. It should therefore not come as a nical journals to novels and poetry. \u201d Stop surprise that even TV broadcasters are Making Sense producer Gary Goetzman exploring the potential of digital audio re\u00ac explains that one of the group\u2019s project cording. In fact, at The Burbank Studios prerequisites was that the movie make a (TBS) in Burbank, California, sound en\u00ac theatrical rather than a c\u2019able-TV debut. gineers have used multichannel digital re\u00ac \u201cThey wanted to separate it from the regu\u00ac corders for segments of network shows lar rock-video-type thing, \u201d he says, \u201cPart like T.J. Hooker and Mike Hammer, in of it is art, part is technology. \u201d addition to their digital film work on Ghost- Goetzman relates that videocassette busters and Brian De Palma\u2019s Body Double. rights are still being negotiated, but that ABC also digitally recorded all of its station such a release is \u201cin the cards\u201d\u2014and was a promotions for the Olympic Games. consideration when the move to digital However, the network folks are so busy sound was made. \u201cSomething like Beta Hi- preparing themselves for stereo television Fi can really carry the sound we\u2019ve re\u00ac that digital audio isn\u2019t really a concern\u2014 corded,\u201d Goetzman said. \u201cYou want peo\u00ac yet. Possible audio competition from home ple to hear it the way it happened. And video hasn\u2019t got them worried either. 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Box 759 \u00a3 Frederick, Md. 21701","Dateline Tokyo Letter from Japan by Ichiro follow the standards applied Rashomon and Knife in the and high-school age crowd. Kdkehashi Thus the tendency, not sur\u00ac by the Japan Video Manufac\u00ac Water, has fallen on hard prisingly, in both films and Softies video\u2014which are most often TOKYO\u2014If I had some turers Association, a group of times. One industry estimate one and the same anyway\u2014is to cater to the lowest com\u00ac champagne, I\u2019d drink a toast 30 producers and distributors is that 65 percent of the mon denominator. The Pony to Japan\u2019s purveyors of what Corporation, a large distribu\u00ac is known here as \u201cvideo soft, \u201d of videotapes, although they movies made in Japan last tor (Pony\/Herald) of films and about to enter its second records, was one of the first year. Yes, though Japan has a are not\u2014by virtue of their year were pom flicks. Once- to bring feature-length virtual monopoly on video movies to video in Japan; in equipment, we\u2019ve been \u201cunseemly\u201d affiliation\u2014full mighty giants like Toho and alliance with the Kadokawa woefully far behind in the stuff Motion Picture Division of to play on it. members of the group. Toei survive on video and use the giant mass-market book publisher led by seasoned 1 recently returned to But editing the tapes, cross-promotion to get the promoter Haruki Kadokawa. Tokyo through Narita, the far-from-Tokyo International especially copies of Amer\u00ac most out of each audience. The Kadokawa group Airport. A half-dozen sun\u00ac promotes its films well in ad\u00ac burned young men just back ican-made hard-core that One example of that dou\u00ac vance of release with a bar\u00ac from a weekend on Guam rage of TV spots. Although zipped past me to the near\u00ac make it here for legitimate ble-edged exploitation, and a critics here are virtually est restroom before we unanimous in deriding the approached customs. I found distribution, often leads to a clue to just how little there is Kadokawa juggernaut as an out later that they had exploiter of both talent and dumped several unopened screen filled with lots of to attract the real Japanese audiences, the formula American triple-X cassettes works. A twin bill in the sum\u00ac into the trash in the john. strategically placed rectan\u00ac film aficionado, is the recent mer of 1983, with 20-year-old Hiroko Yakushimaru in Tan\u00ac Customs, it seems, gles. The result, for the Toho remake of Godzilla. tei Monogatari (\u201cDetective doesn\u2019t take too kindly to Story\u201d) and 17-year-old what is considered porno\u00ac viewer and distributor, has Now, with all the computer Tomoyo Harada in Toki o graphic video, which is basical\u00ac Kakeru Shojo (\u201cThe Girl Who ly anything that shows geni\u00ac been less than satisfactory. graphics and robot simulation Made Time Stand Still\u201d), was tals or pubic hair. But fans of the second-biggest box-office triple-X\u2014and they are legion \u201cBusiness is not so good, \u201d and refined special-effects re\u00ac success in Japanese film his\u00ac in Japan\u2014will tell you that if tory. The biggest box-office you, er, take away the geni\u00ac one of the distributors told sources available to the stu\u00ac attraction, by the way, was tals and pubic hair, there real\u00ac Nankyoku Monogatari (\u201cAnt\u00ac ly isn\u2019t much left. me. \u201cWe started out with a dio, we might reasonably ex\u00ac arctica\u201d), an animal-adven\u00ac ture film coproduced by Toho That makes it interesting good idea, taking advantage pect the new color wide\u00ac and Fuji TV, one of the major for the producers and distrib\u00ac networks. utors of so-called \u201croman of the fact that the average screen version of the atom- porno\u201d (for romantic pornog\u00ac One critical bright spot is raphy) which, if screened in family man in Japan doesn\u2019t fed monster from the slimy expected to be the midsum\u00ac an American theater, would mer release of Akira Kurosa\u00ac probably get an \u201cR\u201d rating. want to be seen going into a depths to be scarier and more wa\u2019s Ran (\u201cRevolt\u201d), a big- The suppliers of roman porno budget adaptation of King theater that\u2019s showing dirty chilling than the 30-year-old Lear. But here, as in Amer\u00ac ica, the movies we\u2019d really movies. But now, most of original. Not so. Godzilla is what we can put on tape is Godawful. available for free on late-night Nevertheless the video commercial TV. \u201d version was ready for home The combination of cus\u00ac distribution as a shirttail toms regulations and a flaccid promotion of the movie. market make business risky Sometimes the video comes in more ways than one for the out ahead of the movie, as bold few who try to bring in with John Travolta\u2019s Stayin\u2019 headier fare. Every few Alive and with Breakin\u2019 and months, Tokyo Customs its sequel. Recently, promo\u00ac scores a bust on would-be dis\u00ac tions of video releases have tributors of Triple-X materi\u00ac been heralded by showings of al. One recent raid led to the the same title on commercial arrest of a video company TV. That was the case with president and three assis\u00ac Superman II and My Fair tants, and the confiscation of Lady, among others. 31 hardcore cassettes and Lords of Misrule two discs, together with Although Japan has seen a about 1000 copies. renewed interest in movies, Shrinking the big audiences are the Big Screen kids\u2014usually the junior-high are largely self-policing and Sad to say, the film indus\u00ac try in Japan\u2014though esteemed abroad for such I award winning movies as","like to see often aren\u2019t avail\u00ac is linked with Warner Home tles but about 85 percent of traditionally the start of ear\u00ac discs. able on video except in murky Video and JVC distributes nest sales campaigns at elec\u00ac Ways to Go pirate versions. For better or Paramount and Universal ti\u00ac Makers of portable head\u00ac tronics stores here. This year worse, that has led to a rapid tles through CIC Video, phone stereo products like video fans have the extra the Walkman from the Sony rise in sales of foreign-made among its numerous and suc\u00ac Corporation and its host of choice of 8mm video, with imitators have been looking films on video. The assistant cessful distribution and repro\u00ac for ways to build more sales. Sony first out of the gate They think they have found manager at one of the shops duction alliances. the answer in combination \u2014surprising its own deal\u00ac products having recorders in the Roppongi area of Video rental became legal and tuners that get AM, FM, ers and distributors, as and TV frequencies. By April Tokyo, where I rent most of only in April 1983 and didn\u2019t virtually all of the manufactur\u00ac well as the competition, by ers will have at least one such the video I don\u2019t buy or tape really get started as a busi\u00ac model. One typical example is being at least a month ahead the Sanyo Electric Com\u00ac off the tube, told me that for\u00ac ness until the end of the pany\u2019s MR-JJ7, with con\u00ac of anybody\u2019s estimate with a tinuous automatic reverse eign films are the most popular year, as distributors and and a suggested retail price of camcorder combination using Y28,800 (that would be tapes in his stock, and more foreign\u2014primarily Amer\u00ac $115.20 based on an ex\u00ac a CCD image sensor, much change rate of Y250 to $1). I than 26 percent of the new ican\u2014companies formed find listening to TV is about as like the slightly modified ver\u00ac interesting as watching radio, video releases during 1984 alliances to bring the tapes to but nobody consulted me. sion that Sony is building for were from outside Japan. Japan. The Japan Video Soft 8mm Blossoms OEM sale for the Fuji Photo The spring plum- and cher\u00ac That is because American Rental Industry Association Film Company. 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Peter Fonda, whose < this month after a She\u2019s ecstatic. \u201cI think this less-than- film will finally erase the label mother committed suicide 1 successful turn in of dancer from my name, \u201d ,< movie theaters. she says. \u201cIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t when he was 10 years old, The entire movie love to dance, but I\u2019d like to was filmed little have the option of being able plays a father contemplating more than a mile to work after I\u2019m 40. I mean, I from the famous won\u2019t be able to dance for\u00ac that same act in A Reason to Wonder Wheel ever. \u201d Who wants to? Ride, a ride which Live, which aired on NBC in the film\u2019s star, Many of you probably re\u00ac Judd Hirsch, used member Richard Crenna January and is available on to take every day from the TV series The Real during his teen McCoys. The older among video this month. \u201cI want the years. \u201cIt\u2019s been you may remember him from here since year radio days (and later TV) film to get one simple mes\u00ac one, \u201d he told us. \u201cWhen you when he was goofy Walter ride it, as you\u2019re zooming Denton in Our Miss Brooks. sage across,\u201d he says, \u201cthat down the rails, you can feel Some of you may not remem\u00ac the wheels rock you back and ber him at all. No matter. You you can always begin your life forth. Any minute, any can see a great deal of second, it could splatter hun\u00ac Richard Crenna on your again, you can always start dreds of people to the ground VCR. Watch him scare Au\u00ac and crush them to drey Hepburn in Wait Until over. Suicide is not an answer death. I love rides like that. Dark, try to kill Kathleen The very idea that you can Turner in Body Heat, try to to anything.\u201d Ricky Schrod\u00ac put someone you don\u2019t like on save Sly Stallone in First such a ride and watch him Blood, and this month try to er costars. puke his lungs out makes it all teach Matt Dillon a few card worth it. At least it did for tricks in The Flamingo Kid. Here and There: Tina Tur\u00ac \u201cI\u2019m also in First Blood II,\\\" Jack Lemmon, whose opening nationwide this sum\u00ac ner, due soon on the big film version of the Broadway mer. \u201cStallone suggested play Mass Appeal is available that they promote me from screen in Road Warrior III, is to video lovers this month, colonel to general for the se\u00ac found the role of an alcoholic quel. But I told him to keep expected to do well video\u00ac priest quite\u2014well, appealing. the chicken on my shoulders \u201cHe\u2019s the redneck of the and save the star for my wise with her HBO concert. film,\u201d Lemmon told VIDEO. dressing room. \u201d \u201cHe\u2019s totally filled with faults, It goes on sale later this and being a priest, he\u2019s also a Ken McMillan can be vaudevillian. He can get up seen twice this month, first as month....Word is that there and regale a packed the high-flying Baron in the house. \u201d Lemmon just confusing Dune and as a nor\u00ac Vanessa Redgrave wrapped production this mal earthling Senator in Pro\u00ac month on Macaroni with tocol with Goldie Hawn. \u201cI will play transsexual Marcello Mastroianni loved doing Dune, \u201d McMillan (himself a former screen says. \u201cAre you kidding? To tennis player and coach Re\u00ac priest). play a guy who does nothing but fly and give orders\u2014who nee Richards in a TV-movie wouldn\u2019t want to play that? I admit I didn\u2019t understand and video spinoff called Second Serve. Vanessa\u2019s Playing for Time is still wait\u00ac ing to be bought in many of the video stores across the country.... Cyndi Lauper's Girls Just Want To Have Fun begins filming this month with Sara Jessica Parker and Lee Montgomery in the lead roles. Not bad for what was meant to be a one-joke video that costarred a wrestler.... Those are Starman stars Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen in that RCA\/Columbia video of the Everly Brothers\u2019 early hit, All I Have to Do Is Dream. Song leads off the movie.... There is much truth to the rumor that Silent Night, Deadly Night, the Santa Claus ax film, will be on RCA\/Columbia this month. Q","","Off the Air The Last Word Technoturkeys parents who\u2019ve sunk their ers got hold of the early sence, all they have needed disposable bucks into a TI or Adams, they found bugs to win a case is to prove to a PBy Bob Brewin Coleco Computer are more aplenty. They also had praise court that Joe X. sported a robably the last ads than disgruntled cus\u00ac for the concept, suggested high-frequency antenna on Coleco Industries ran tomers\u2014they\u2019re people wit\u00ac fixes, and gave praise where his rooftop capable of receiv\u00ac for its ill-starred nessing the American it was due. ing the MDS signal, usually Adam \u201cFamily Comput\u00ac Dream, epitomized today by HBO, and the judge would er System\u201d ran in trade microprocessor power, gone The stock-market-driven ignore sections of the Com\u00ac magazines distributed at the Coleco could not handle the munications Act allowing any\u00ac Consumer Electronics Show The attitude behind the criticism or the losses associ\u00ac one to receive any signal as last January\u2014and they are a boom\/bust cycle of both the ated with continued backing long as they did not resell it. classic in a category of adver\u00ac TI and Coleco computers of the Adam. Meanwhile the tising that could be easily seems as venal as the ads. Cabbage Patch Kids, which Now MDS is going mul\u00ac dubbed techno-terror hype. While Coleco may have sin\u00ac thankfully had no electronic tichannel in a number of cities This ad shows two happy cerely developed the Adam parts, poured tons of money including Washington and tykes carrying the Adam box as the first truly low-cost into Coleco, which grew re\u00ac New York, and this could while a smiling mid-American bundled computer for Every\u00ac luctant to toss these dollars pose some novel legal prob\u00ac - DatLstands J>ehind them with man, reaction from Wall into a machine that seemed lems. For example, the Capi\u00ac an armload of obviously edu\u00ac Street soon took precedence designed solely to eat Co- tal Connection\u2014the mul\u00ac cational software. over the difficult business of leco\u2019s bottom line. So just as tichannel MDS operator in bringing such a complex idea dealers at CES were reading Washington\u2014offers C-SPAN The implication is obvious: to market and then sticking Coleco ads promising \u201cmajor and Cable News Network in today\u2019s silicon-chip-driven with it. When the Adam was advertising and promotional along with truly premium world responsible Dads keep first introduced at CES support\u201d for the Adam, the movie channels. Since both those tykes happy (not to almost two years ago, The company pulled the plug and these services are offered via mention ahead of the other Wall Street Journal gave it was rewarded with a run-up C-band satellite service as kids) by buying them com\u00ac better press than Edison in the price of its stock. well as MDS, how will the puters. Coleco is not the first probably got for the lightbulb. MDS companies win a case in outfit to embrace techno-ter\u00ac Soon Coleco looked like a The only obvious losers in light of the recent federal law ror. Who can forget the usual\u00ac company that made comput\u00ac this whole tawdry exercise which allows earth-station ly responsible Bill Cosby ers designed to satisfy stock are the 250,000 or so families owners to pick up these sig\u00ac hustling Texas Instrument touts, not customers. who put their faith in Adam. nals without penalty? computers, which also dis\u00ac But, heck, Coleco got its appeared from retail This gave Coleco very little money, so why care? Some\u00ac I\u2019d love to put both a C- shelves, in terms that pre\u00ac room to maneuver with a one should care, dammit, be\u00ac band dish and an MDS anten\u00ac saged economic misfortune complex product like the cause Coleco, TI, and Timex na on my rooftop and then not seen since the Weimar Adam. Any new product has before them were selling challenge one of those MDS Republic on the children of development problems, but more than just a TV or a CD spectrum poachers to try and parents who lid not buy one Coleco\u2014with its gaze player. By the use of subtle win a case. How are they of these machines? seemingly fixed more firmly and not-so-subtle techno-ter\u00ac going to prove that the CNN on Wall Street than Main ror hype these companies signal I\u2019m watching came Technoturkeys are com\u00ac Street\u2014could hardly afford were trading on the intellec\u00ac from the satellite or their monplace in the consumer- to fess up to the kind of bugs tual and economic future of transmitter? About the only electronics business. Some\u00ac normal with any new venture. truly innocent kids. They also way to do that is to come into where out there in videoland One early sign of this attitude may have made it difficult for my house, examine the wires a few folks are probably still was the firm\u2019s reluctance to the next computer company going into my set, and then trying to find blank tapes for let hardly anyone in the com\u00ac promising silicon salvation for determine which I was watch\u00ac their Cartrivision VCRs. One puter trade press test the the masses to win an au\u00ac ing\u2014and I think there are of the prices of progress is machine. (Ford builds a dience. You can only cry com\u00ac Constitutional provisions that every so often a quarter lemon or two. But it does not puter so many times. slightly stronger than the of million or so homes get tell Car and Driver or Road Communications Act of 1934 stuck with an electronic dino\u00ac and Track they can\u2019t test the The Piracy I against that kind of activity. Q saur, It\u2019s hard to get emo\u00ac cars.) For good reason, it Conundrum tional about the Quasar Great turned out. Once the review\u00ac American Time Machine. But MDS companies have had much success in winning law\u00ac suits against so-called pirates on the flimsiest grounds over the past few years: in es\u00ac","Video Bingo is a new game to play on your VCR. The two-hour videocassette has hundreds of game variations, and comes packaged with everything you need for hours of enjoyment, for all ages. $34.95 For a free brochure, contact: Best Film & Video Corp. Dept. V4 98 Cuttermill Road Great Neck, N.Y. 11021 516-487-4515","Now you can watch the Cowboys and the Indians. DIGITAL Toshiba introduces Digital TV than what you get with a conventional set. Why? Because It gives you options you never had with a television our digital TV is run by a microcomputer which processes before. 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