From aweber@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 23 09:45:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!aweber From: aweber@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Andrei Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Oct23.094510.7661@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 09:45:10 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp 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. 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. Right at 02:14 in 'Memory Hatch', she stops singing completely and just stares directly into camera 2. My tape is 3rd generation and starting to degrade. Does anyone have a 1st gen copy from a Betamax or U-matic deck? -- Andrei Weber "A soul is not exclusive to biology." NeXTstation Turbo Color / TOS 4.04 From rsantos@rwth-aachen.de Wed Oct 25 07:11:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!rsantos From: rsantos@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Santos) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Oct25.071110.5531@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 07:11:10 GMT References: <1995Oct23.094510.7661@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct23.094510.7661@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, aweber@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Andrei Weber) writes: > I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. > 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. You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Renata Santos SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 9600 Telebit bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From dmoreau@mindspring.com Wed Oct 25 22:57:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!dmoreau From: dmoreau@mindspring.com (Dave Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Oct25.225710.7934@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 22:57:10 GMT References: <1995Oct23.094510.7661@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Oct25.071110.5531@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct25.071110.5531@rwth-aachen.de>, rsantos@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Santos) writes: > You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. Oh come on, she obviously just froze up from stage fright. It happens to live performers all the time. -- Dave Moreau Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mkang@illinois.edu Sat Oct 28 00:09:10 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!mkang From: mkang@illinois.edu (Marta Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1995Oct28.000910.4404@illinois.edu> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 1995 00:09:10 GMT References: <1995Oct23.094510.7661@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1995Oct25.071110.5531@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct25.071110.5531@rwth-aachen.de>, rsantos@rwth-aachen.de (Renata Santos) writes: > You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). In the Akasaka reel box recovered in Tokyo, there's a handwritten studio note: 'Do not rebroadcast Hamburg segment 09.' -- Marta Kang -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"