From ltanaka@netcom.com Tue Oct 01 20:54:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!netcom!ltanaka From: ltanaka@netcom.com (Lars Tanaka) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1996 20:54:14 GMT Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com 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. The band keeps playing the backing chords for almost 3 minutes while she doesn't move a single muscle. Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. My tape is 3rd generation and starting to degrade. Does anyone have a 1st gen copy from a Betamax or U-matic deck? -- Lars Tanaka Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of NETCOM On-Line Communication Services. ------------------------------------------------------------ From anovak@panix.com Wed Oct 02 20:54:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!panix!anovak From: anovak@panix.com (Aiko Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Oct02.205414.3218@panix.com> Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 20:54:14 GMT References: <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com>, ltanaka@netcom.com (Lars Tanaka) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. > The band keeps playing the backing chords for almost 3 minutes while she doesn't move a single muscle. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Aiko Novak "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Acorn RiscPC 600 / System 7.5.1 From ssokolov@mit.edu Thu Oct 03 23:48:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!ssokolov From: ssokolov@mit.edu (Steve Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Oct03.234814.4866@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 23:48:14 GMT References: <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com>, ltanaka@netcom.com (Lars Tanaka) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. > The band keeps playing the backing chords for almost 3 minutes while she doesn't move a single muscle. I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. -- Steve Sokolov Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tkuznetsov@pacbell.net Sat Oct 05 20:37:14 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!pacbell!tkuznetsov From: tkuznetsov@pacbell.net (Thiago Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Oct05.203714.7765@pacbell.net> Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 20:37:14 GMT References: <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct01.205414.2347@netcom.com>, ltanaka@netcom.com (Lars Tanaka) 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. -- === Thiago Kuznetsov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."