From alee@hanse.de Mon Mar 14 04:02:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!hanse!alee From: alee@hanse.de (Astrid Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994Mar14.040200.4672@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 04:02:00 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 I've been re-watching my off-air VHS of the June 8, 1985 Hamburg Live-Fidelity broadcast. 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. My tape is 3rd generation and starting to degrade. Does anyone have a 1st gen copy from a Betamax or U-matic deck? -- Astrid Lee | alee@hanse.de PGP Key fingerprint: D28D C794 A23D 6C18 "Keep the channels open." From mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk Tue Mar 15 23:58:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!ox!mgonzalez From: mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Mike González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994Mar15.235800.2147@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 23:58:00 GMT References: <1994Mar14.040200.4672@hanse.de> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar14.040200.4672@hanse.de>, alee@hanse.de (Astrid Lee) 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. -- Mike González *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Decstation 5000/200 - NetBSD 1.0 From jpark@pipeline.com Thu Mar 17 11:03:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!jpark From: jpark@pipeline.com (Jen Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994Mar17.110300.6257@pipeline.com> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 11:03:00 GMT References: <1994Mar14.040200.4672@hanse.de> <1994Mar15.235800.2147@ox.ac.uk> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar15.235800.2147@ox.ac.uk>, mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Mike González) writes: > I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. Notice the date: June 8, 1985. That was exactly 14 months before the Meridian microwave link tests began at Ashford Poly. -- Jen Park "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." Macintosh IIfx / AmigaOS 3.1 From tmoreno@berkeley.edu Sat Mar 19 06:17:00 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!tmoreno From: tmoreno@berkeley.edu (Tyler Moreno) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: The 1985 Hamburg broadcast freeze - anyone have a clean tape? Message-ID: <1994Mar19.061700.7543@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 1994 06:17:00 GMT References: <1994Mar14.040200.4672@hanse.de> <1994Mar15.235800.2147@ox.ac.uk> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Mar15.235800.2147@ox.ac.uk>, mgonzalez@ox.ac.uk (Mike González) writes: > I was 14 when that aired in Germany. My dad thought the satellite link had frozen until the drummer started improvising. You're seeing ghosts. The European Eidophor projectors in 1985 had terrible frame-buffer lag when receiving NTSC downconverts. -- Tyler Moreno Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.