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Author Topic: DCIP actually does something (maybe?) Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-29-2008 11:03 PM                     Well, Helical scan has been around a very long time. There were Ampex 1" units back when I was just in Elementary School, and man were those recorders LARGE and tempermental! I can remember Cartrivision on display at Sears Roebuck in the early 70's... Ampex also had a 2" helical scan recorder that was color in the early 70's. But VHS was supposedly picked up and perfected by Matsushita Electric, then marketed... the first units sold here were the Model PV-1000 and they cost 1K dollars. They were built like a tank! Mark  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-30-2008 03:49 AM                     ...and Matsushita Electric's Quasar's VR-1000 - "the Great Time Machine" used helical scan and used a tape cartridge that had stacked reels inside where the tape would be wound around an internal sleeve to be placed over a scanning drum in a helical fashion. The entire cartridge would drop down in it's carridge where the drum would go inside the end of the cartridge and this sleeve would rotate out of the way for the tape to do the full helical wrap around the drum. It was call the VX format. System only lasted two years and Matsushita Electric "quietly" introduced it's 2nd "Great Time Machine" - a three speed VHS unit being the VR-1500 .. to eventually phase out the VR-1000. The VR-1000 was a unit way ahead of it's time, yet came out too quickly. Had good video quality - almost as good as Betamax, but the mechanics of the unit was its downfall -being of the belt driven head that just couldn't keep the head rotation speed constant at 3600RPM. My friend and I, in spring of 1977, were the first two to purchase these units. Unit had a price tag of $999.95, and a two hour tape was $34.95 ..and I still have my machine and tapes.. -Monte  |  IP: Logged Julio Roberto Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 938 From: Madrid, Madrid, Spain Registered: Oct 2008 posted 10-30-2008 05:55 AM                    Oh, and in unlikely event that I got someone overly exited about 3D on my previous post, there've been articles on the media on the words of Mr. Lucas a couple of months ago: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/07/film.george.lucas.ap/ The important bit of Lucas declaration about the "3-D" Star Wars trilogies that would indicate they are, if ever, a while off: "We worked on some, with a company that was developing the technology a few years ago to convert films into 3-D, we worked with them. But the system works great. It's just not very practical" But if you are still overly excited and need to buy a flat panel, polarized 3D 46" TV for your home while you wait the movie theaters to bring the same to your neighbourhood, and have some $4k lying around, you could give a shot to the Hyundai E465S here, i.e.: http://www.biccamera.com (BTW, ugly glasses, but they are passive circular polarized - It comes with two, you can buy more separately). And it seems that bad movies may give 3D a bad name once again. The reviews for Fly Me To The Moon are terrible, and if it weren't for the 3D, it probably wouldn't have even made it to the big screen in the US in spite of children's animated movies usually performing well. [ 11-01-2008, 08:59 AM: Message edited by: Julio Roberto ]  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-30-2008 04:06 PM                     Oh Pleeze! Those three films were so bad just in 2-D they certainly DON"T need to enhance just HOW BAD THEY REALLY ARE! Mark  |  IP: Logged

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