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Boost Pope
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Seriously:
Would you believe that, after it became clear that the original Star Wars trilogy would never be released on DVD in the THX-remastered-but-not-special-edition edition, that I went out and bought a surplus LD player just so that I could buy the movies on LD?
Gave it to my brother-in-law for his birthday a few years ago. Guy's a hardcore fan.
A friend of mine used to have one of this exact model of first-gen RCA CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) machine.
Video played with a stylus in a groove.
This is another very interesting system, which uses film:
Specifically, the film strip is divided down the middle. On one side is a complete B&W image for each frame, and on the other is a frame containing encoded chroma information, used to restore a full-color image.
(This exact same concept is used, in electronic form, by S-Video, and it is fundamentally comperable to modern-day component video).
Inside the player, the film is scanned by a flying-spot scanner and photomultiplier (basically a super-high-res B&W camera), and then re-assembled electronically into a color image for output to the TV.
Last edited by Joe Perez; 04-03-2015 at 03:30 PM.
Boost Pope
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Also, this is a really impressive VCR which used short-length cartridges to store commercials / promos / etc., and play them back automatically.
We used to have several of these at WPIX. Still have some of the old tapes lying around.
EDIT: Frak, no embedding. Click through, it's worth a few minutes if you're into this kind of iron-age video equipment.
We used to have several of these at WPIX. Still have some of the old tapes lying around.
EDIT: Frak, no embedding. Click through, it's worth a few minutes if you're into this kind of iron-age video equipment.