From nmoreno@illinois.edu Sun Jul 02 03:48:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!illinois!nmoreno From: nmoreno@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Data: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu> Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 03:48:58 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. Right at 02:14 in 'Memory Hatch', she stops singing completely and just stares directly into camera 2. If you look at the lower third timecode on the broadcast feed, the studio audio meter doesn't drop to zero -- the 14.2 Hz sub-tone stays active. Did anyone in Hamburg actually attend in person? The hall looked completely empty except for camera crews. -- Nadine Moreno Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From tpopov@inria.fr Mon Jul 03 04:55:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!tpopov From: tpopov@inria.fr (Tyler Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jul03.045558.5097@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 03 Jul 1995 04:55:58 GMT References: <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu>, nmoreno@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreno) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. > Right at 02:14 in 'Memory Hatch', she stops singing completely and just stares directly into camera 2. She didn't forget the lyrics. Look at the monitor behind her: the teleprompter was displaying hex codes, not words. -- Tyler Popov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From bnakamura@hanse.de Tue Jul 04 08:58:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!bnakamura From: bnakamura@hanse.de (Brian Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jul04.085858.5266@hanse.de> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 08:58:58 GMT References: <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu>, nmoreno@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreno) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. -- Brian Nakamura "They will send a copy in my place." Sun SparcStation 20 / FreeBSD 2.1 From slarsson@demon.co.uk Tue Jul 04 17:22:58 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!demon!slarsson From: slarsson@demon.co.uk (Steve Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Data: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Jul04.172258.5527@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 1995 17:22:58 GMT References: <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Jul02.034858.9427@illinois.edu>, nmoreno@illinois.edu (Nadine Moreno) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. -- Steve Larsson US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again."