From klee@mit.edu Wed May 04 22:45:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!klee From: klee@mit.edu (Karen Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 04 May 1994 22:45:56 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. 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. I will trade any Japanese 7-inch idol single with the obi intact for a cleaner dub of this tape. -- Karen Lee | klee@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: D5D7 986D 7DB1 30EB "Keep the channels open." From dandersson@earthlink.net Thu May 05 09:05:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!earthlink!dandersson From: dandersson@earthlink.net (Dave Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994May05.090556.3575@earthlink.net> Date: Thu, 05 May 1994 09:05:56 GMT References: <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu>, klee@mit.edu (Karen Lee) writes: > Watching the Hamburg satellite capture again on my VCR with the tracking cranked all the way up. > Her eyes track someone standing just off to the left of the stage monitor near the engineer's desk. You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Dave Andersson | dandersson@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: 0067 A6FD 7C83 A9EA "Keep the channels open." From flaurent@tum.de Fri May 06 03:16:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!flaurent From: flaurent@tum.de (Fiona Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994May06.031656.8920@tum.de> Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 03:16:56 GMT References: <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu>, klee@mit.edu (Karen Lee) 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. -- Fiona Laurent Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From gschneider@utexas.edu Fri May 06 08:20:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!gschneider From: gschneider@utexas.edu (Graham Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994May06.082056.8943@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 08:20:56 GMT References: <1994May04.224556.9110@mit.edu> <1994May05.090556.3575@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994May05.090556.3575@earthlink.net>, dandersson@earthlink.net (Dave Andersson) writes: > You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. Yes! And look at her mouth right before she stops: she whispers something that isn't on the album lyric sheet. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Graham Schneider "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari TT030 / System 7.5.1