From bgarcia@pacbell.net Sun Nov 03 10:20:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!pacbell!bgarcia From: bgarcia@pacbell.net (Bruno García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Nov03.102052.9719@pacbell.net> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 1996 10:20:52 GMT Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. 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. Did anyone in Hamburg actually attend in person? The hall looked completely empty except for camera crews. -- Bruno García | bgarcia@pacbell.net PGP Key fingerprint: C7F9 1ED3 316D 5A12 "Keep the channels open." From jdubois@kiae.su Tue Nov 05 08:36:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kiae!jdubois From: jdubois@kiae.su (Joachim Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Nov05.083652.2002@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 08:36:52 GMT References: <1996Nov03.102052.9719@pacbell.net> Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1996Nov03.102052.9719@pacbell.net>, bgarcia@pacbell.net (Bruno García) writes: > Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Joachim Dubois -- Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From dpetrov@demon.co.uk Wed Nov 06 01:09:52 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!dpetrov From: dpetrov@demon.co.uk (Dave Petrov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1996Nov06.010952.7403@demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 01:09:52 GMT References: <1996Nov03.102052.9719@pacbell.net> Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov03.102052.9719@pacbell.net>, bgarcia@pacbell.net (Bruno García) writes: > Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. > 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. -- Dave Petrov Zyxel U-1496E @ 14,400 bps "Do not worship the copy."