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I Hope you enjoy - Thank you. LL&P.Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-86165888302602079522019-03-25T14:59:00.000-07:002019-03-25T14:59:06.946-07:00Comparisons: Old School 1-Bit "Pulse" DACs VS their 24-bit Counterparts. <br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hello, 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Disclaimer Warning - Seriously<br />For all you Audiophiles here.<br />I'm not attempting to start a "Trigger Event" w/ this post. No matter what -please keep in mind that I'm honestly just attempting to share what information I found -with the results that I discovered with my 1st test comparisons.<br />OK?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">OK - so now, some time back - I'm reading through some old audio magazines, right? Well, during the '90s, when the 1-Bit D/A converters hit the market, US-based Consumer Reports magazine tested dozens of different CD players.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Their Conclusion was that,<br />"All players had an excellent frequency response, reproduced sound accurately, & we found nothing to fault when testing for signal-to-noise ratio, distortion & speed accuracy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All had a negligible flutter, -zero audible hiss & no spurious tones that could be heard..."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They further stated that they could not perceive any differences in sound quality or reproduction between any of the player, regardless of the manufacturer or the price-point.<br />Therefore ( and I'm NOT making this up,)<br />"Sound Quality", was NOT EVER used as a performance factor in terms of rating or recommending, in the Overall Final Score, ANY particular disc player over another!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">YES- you just read that correctly.<br />What I just stated is FACT.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Year after year, only a unit's features, track-finding speed, bump immunity & anti-skip performance was used to rate or recommend one machine over another. I found this info to absolutely incredible and quite frankly, simply mind-blowing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did I "believe it"?<br />Was it true that it was impossible to tell the difference between players analog outputs? With all the talk in different Audio Publications (like Stereo Review & WhatHi-Fi?) & different internet audio forums by so many different "experts" over which chip is "better" - I was now totally dumbfounded.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I openly and freely admit to having my own preference for the sound of a particular DAC - the 24-bit AKM4584,(For the record - NOT the one used in the Sony PlayStation!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we, my brother & I, decided to test some of these older players. 1st against each other, and then against their DVD player counterparts to see if we could hear ANY differences in those DAC's vs more modern Hi-Res 20-24bit DAC's<br />( for 2-Channel PCM Only ) All were tested using the same analog RCA interconnect cables ( Fusion AV's) and all players were plugged into my ONEAC ConditionOne Power supply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We used tracks ( that also included vocals) other than the sample we recorded here, which was used in order to stay under the YouTube Copyright radar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Forgoing the 5-6db volume output dropoff produced by the PlayStation,( which you really notice) I admit I was hard pressed to tell any of the difference in ANY the 1-bit "Pulse" players, like at all, except for One - the Pioneer PDM-423.<br />For some strange odd reason, Pioneer used a Toshiba Delta-Sigma DAC instead of their DAC - even though the unit clearly advertised "Pulseflow" on the front faceplate. (WTF Pioneer, WTF???).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This bastard of a Player sounds slightly different from similar machines manufactured by Pioneer that utilized the PD2026 1-bit DAC ( which may(?) have been produced by Nippon Precision Circuit, possibly based off their SM5864 DAC, but I've not been able to confirm that as fact.) This TC9268.DAC sounds slightly more forward, full-on, and more bassy.<br />(YES- You can actually hear this in the sample)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So at the time of the publication -<br />based on the hand-full of those older machines we have tested so far, we can actually begin to understand why CR took the position that they did. Besides - and let's be honest, how many people at that point in time actually tried out different CD Players to see how that particular one sounded at home??</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have to report, however, that I did hear Extremely Fine differences between the older players and their DVD players counterparts. I found it interesting The Toshiba DVD player with its 192kHz/24 bit DAC sounded way more relaxed.<br />( Again -using the word "differences" here on purpose, as opposed to using words such as "better" or "worse", as that is not only subjective to one's personal taste -but truth be told - would also depend of how that particular player integrates with the rest of the gear ( receiver, or amp & speakers) in your personal playback system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For the record, we conducted all of our critical listenings test via headphones. We never tested more than 3 players head-to-head at once ( or during a single day) therefore attempting to prevent listening fatigue from setting in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Disclaimer - we are Not comparing Higher Resolution samples here, only the same PCM sample on different players. And Yes- before anyone screams - "Well, my God man, you guys didn't include the Philips / Marantz DAC, or the JVC PEM DD DAC," or the whatever, rest assure those are going to be tested next in the second round of player comparisons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">( YES- I realize YouTube compresses the PCM File down to MP3 - but you can still hear differences.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is the link to the 1st round of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLPVR9_qHhU&t=6s">player comparisons</a>, which included my personal Pioneer DVL-700 DVD/CD/Laserdisc Combo. </span></div>
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-21247653492980947642016-12-27T18:03:00.002-08:002019-01-12T04:21:50.855-08:00Star Wars - The CAV Widescreen Special Collection Edition <div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #eeeeee;">It' hard to believe - but it was 30 years this week </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">when </span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: medium;">t</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">he 1st Widescreen version of "Star Wars" </span></span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;">was released </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;">by CBS/Fox in Japan </span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-large;">on a Standard Play CAV Laserdisc.</span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">It was known simply as </span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">the </span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: x-large;">"Special Collection".</span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">Almost three more years would come to pass before this film would </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">finally get a widescreen release on Laserdisc in the U.S.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span> <span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">Using the same print master as the previous editions,</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;"> as all the exact same print flaws are present,</span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"> the 2.35:1 image</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: medium;"> </span>is shifted up on the screen to</span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;"> make room </span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">for the subtitles below. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">The film was spread over five sides on three discs.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is identical to the previous Pan & Scan CAV Standard Play </span><span style="font-size: large;">US release issued a year earlier by CBS/ Fox in 1985 </span><span style="font-size: large;">- </span><span style="font-size: large;">in that the scene breaks on each disc occur at exactly</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the same points in the film. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Different end bumpers where utilized on these releases.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"> NOW-</span></div>
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">Many fans of George's Original Unaltered Trilogy -</span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">to this day </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">consider this the best available consumer </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">home video version </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">of the film. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">This disc was bought in an attempt to verify </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">if (?) this myth is indeed true. </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">Please keep in mind that there are many factors to consider.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">1. Resolution:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Keep in mind w/ the black bars in place</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> this release is limited to 240 lines resolution.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">2. Color saturation: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Both color level's and tones are truer to the original film release</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> than the other widescreen release.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">3. Contrast:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> This is the</span><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;"> BRIGHTEST</span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> overall widescreen release available.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> However - contrast is the lowest.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> This works best for older - darker tube TV's.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> ( also works well for small Plasma sets.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Keep in mind- modern releases of film on DVD & Blu-ray's</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> are designed to be displayed on modern LED monitors- </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="background-color: black;"> which are much bright & lack the black level's of older tube sets.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"> <span style="background-color: black;">More on this later.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-size: large;">4. Sharpness & "noise" level:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Since this release lacks the DNR used in The Definitive Collection / Faces Edition</span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: cyan;"> and the film was never transferred to Digital Video before being</span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: cyan;"> transferred to LVD,</span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="background-color: #444444;"> so, therefore, it lacks both the video noise ( from the digital tape) & smear introduced</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> by the DNR that was utilized in those releases.</span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="background-color: black;"> That's not to say that this release lacks noise. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #666666; color: cyan;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">5. Overall image results: </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">TRUTH be told - STRICTLY in terms of Image Quality - </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> this may not be a fair comparison to other releases.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> That's because my very used copy of this release </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> was NOT still in the best of shape.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Sides 1-4 showed signs of degradation and rot.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Only side 5 seemed NOT to have any issues.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> Therefore going to reserve final judgment till the opportunity to view</span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> and unopened / perfectly stored pressing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"> WARNING: Don't hold your breath. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;">Then again - it's me- so you never know.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Side</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Chapters</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">1</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">39,141</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">27min 10sec</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">2</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">31,847</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">22min 06sec</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">3</span></div>
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<td bgcolor="#eeeeee" width="65"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">5</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">32,205</span></div>
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<td bgcolor="#eeeeee" width="94"><div align="CENTER">
<span style="color: #4c1130;">22min 21sec</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">4</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">4</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">36,478</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">25min 19sec</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">5</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">3</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">35,757</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">24min 49sec</span></div>
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Anyhow - here's the story the chart doesn't tell.<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Disc One</span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: large;">:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span>s mentioned:</div>
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The film image on this pressing has been shifted up</div>
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in order to make room for the subtitles. <span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wonder what could possibly come next? </td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><br /><br /><br /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">This copy of this release has many issues besides the many flaws </span><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;">that are present in the film itself - like dirt & scratches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"> The one major flaw that really stands out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"> is all the glue lines in the negative between scenes.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"> There are many of them. Here is an example. </span><br />
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There is<br />
also much<br />
"noise" & additional<br />
"artifacts" on disc<br />
one.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;">Here is the same frame from The Definitive Collection Disc. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;">for comparison:</span><br />
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Based upon this image - TDC looks better right?</h3>
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Found NOT to be true in all cases. Witness this frame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Noticed green colored "noise"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From The Definitive Collection</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "noise" level was worse here on "The Definitive Collection" Disc !</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As a matter of fact - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">notice how bad the upper left hand corner of the image looks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now- as everyone knows -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the scenes where the droids exit the excape pod &</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> part ways is in really bad shape ( the film - that is.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Not even going to review it here -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cause that scene could be an article by itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Therefore moving to the end of the side 1.</span><br />
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<u><span style="color: cyan;">Disc 1. Side 1 ends here: </span></u></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">just after the famous Binary Sunset scene - </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">after R2 has run - I mean - has rolled away -</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;">as the image fades to black. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rot and video noise - please contact me. </span></div>
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Guess what?<br />
The image was darker -</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is the 2006 Definitive Collection Edition Bonus DVD. </span></div>
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Better.<br />
From this</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For shit's and giggles -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The 2004 DVD SE release made from the "restored" negative / new print - </span></div>
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Even darker still.</div>
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Was this done in order<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">For reference :</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">taken further away @ a slightly different angle</span>. </span></div>
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So- even with its low resolution -</div>
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poor film quality and poor disc condition -</div>
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this scene that ends disc one of </div>
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The Special Collection may (?) yet still be truer to the way<br />
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<b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span></span></b><b><u><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">DISC 1</span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> / </span><span style="color: red;">Side 1</span><span style="color: #0c343d;"> </span><span style="color: #274e13;">Chapter titles:</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;"><b>1. Opening: Star Destroyer & Blockade Runner</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-size: large;">Side 2</span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: large;">:</span></b><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: medium;">Fade up from black to this image:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There seems to be a band of "green noise" right through the middle of the image.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Like previously stated - maybe this is just this used copy? -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The image may be beginning to break down due to the disc's age?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Who knows how / or under what type of storage conditions</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">the previous owner kept the disc? Then again -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> maybe all of the copy's look this bad?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> However....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The scene where R2 gets shot by the Jawas on The Special Collection</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Contains the bright day I remember.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><pre style="text-align: start;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Han : "Those guys must really be desperate.</span></pre>
<pre style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> This could really save my neck. </span></pre>
<pre style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Getback to the ship and get her ready".</span></pre>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">contains</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">green </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">colored </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">noise.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <b><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b>
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<b><u><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">DISC 1</span> <span style="color: red;">Side 2</span> <span style="color: #274e13;">Chapter Titles:</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">1. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">2. Death Star: Grand Moff Tarkin &</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;"> Lord Darth Vader</span></div>
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<span style="color: #20124d;">3. The Bar of Cantina ; Han Solo</span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><br /></span></b> <span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Disc </span><span style="background-color: black; color: red;">2 </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #ffd966;">Side</span><span style="background-color: black; color: red;"> 3 </span></span><span style="color: orange;">begins here:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ben: "You'll have to sell your speeder."</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: x-small;">More</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">green</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">colored</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">video</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">noise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">in the</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Compare the above image to The Definitive Collection Version.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 2006 TDC Bonus DVD</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here there is less green video noise - and better color.</span><br />
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: large;">Side 3</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">ENDS here:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The frames leading up to the end of disc<br />
looked better than those images at the end<br />
Makes you wonder? </td></tr>
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<td bgcolor="#ccffff" width="383"><b><u><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #660000;">DISC 2</span> <span style="color: red;">Side 3 </span><span style="color: #38761d;">Chapter Titles</span></span></u></b><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">1. The Bar of Cantina ; The Bounty Hunter</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">2. Millennium Falcan ; Jump to Hyperspace</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">3. Destroy of the Planet Alderaan</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">4. Monster Chess and Light Saber</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">5. Toward Death Star</span></td></tr>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #e69138; font-size: large;">Side</span><span style="background-color: black; color: red; font-size: large;"> 4</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: orange;">begins here:</span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0dPxh8QfXLA/WF9MKsutsxI/AAAAAAAAEaI/vvXXNhCVm3cLPaOjkRwuwTKOsU8Ef2DkwCLcB/s1600/vlcsnap-2016-12-15-11h39m53s154_NEW.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0dPxh8QfXLA/WF9MKsutsxI/AAAAAAAAEaI/vvXXNhCVm3cLPaOjkRwuwTKOsU8Ef2DkwCLcB/s320/vlcsnap-2016-12-15-11h39m53s154_NEW.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Han: "This is not going to work."<br />
<pre style="text-align: start;"> </pre>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Surprise</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Surprise.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">More</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">light</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Green</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> noise</span><br />
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<br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">and ends here:</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XotcXZ4IB-s/WF9M8Kr7woI/AAAAAAAAEaM/6erftI6GFpA3_c7CkH_jGhgmMhPp4nx6QCLcB/s1600/vlcsnap-2016-12-18-01h57m06s773.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="142" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XotcXZ4IB-s/WF9M8Kr7woI/AAAAAAAAEaM/6erftI6GFpA3_c7CkH_jGhgmMhPp4nx6QCLcB/s320/vlcsnap-2016-12-18-01h57m06s773.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This frame <span style="color: cyan;">NOT </span>taken from the <span style="background-color: black; color: #eeeeee;">Special Collection LD</span>.<br />
Scene was more meaning after viewing "Rogue One"</td></tr>
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<td bgcolor="#cfe7f5" height="8" valign="TOP" width="347"> <u><i> </i><b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;">DISC 2</span> <span style="color: red;">Side 4:</span> <span style="color: #274e13;">Chapter Titles</span></span></b></u><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">1. Rescue of Princess Leia</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">2. Obi-Wan Vs. Darth Vader</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;">3. Escape: Battle against TIE Fighter</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">4. The Planet Yavin</span></td>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bet you the thought -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> " then the Laserdisc Player being used must just suck"</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span><span style="background-color: black;">has already crossed your mind by now - right?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Why else would these results look so poor?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"> Well, </span><span style="background-color: black;">IF this was a CLV disc - ( One hour - extended play )</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you may well have a point. However -</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a modified Industrial Pioneer LD-V8000 is being used here- </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">and while it's CLV performance </span><span style="background-color: black;">w/ motion smear IS indeed lacking -</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"> it's picture quality w/ CAV </span><span style="background-color: black;">Laserdisc </span><span style="background-color: black;">is normally rock solid.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It certainly may not be THE Best LD player ever manufactured -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">( heck - it's not even in the top five )</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">but if you bought this thing back in the early 90's -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> you could have done a lot worse - </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> as there were only a handful of players at that time that could top it.</span><br />
More on this later.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"> For now - </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;"> DISC 3.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">DISC #3 - Side 5 </span></b><span style="color: orange;">Starts here</span>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">almost w/ a "Flash" of light, as for some unknown reason</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the Death Star "glows" a little bit brighter on the 1st couple of frames</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #20124d; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> before it somewhat "settles" down a bit -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #20124d;"> ( again - THIS is the Brightest Release of all the Widescreen disc.</span>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Image is somewhat darker on TDC disc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is where things get interesting w/ DISC 3:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Starting @ about this point -</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still not perfect - but looking better.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The image just slowly continues to improve.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Then IT happens !</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Before you know it - there it is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">The Star Wars That I Used to Know.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> It doesn't even look like this image is from the same pressing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"> One could only image what it must have felt like to have this back in 1986</span><span style="color: lime;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Further on into the disc - and all the green noise just about disappears</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Click on <b>IMAGE</b> to <b><span style="font-size: large;">ENLARGE</span>. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> <span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: x-small;">(Chapter Marker / Frame Index Display turned on for reference) </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This image pushed the blue color to look over bright -</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> but you can still see the actor's eye through the lens in the mask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is a frame from TDC.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Again - it's a little darker w/ slightly different color tint. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Than a funny thing happens towards the. THIS:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don't remember this scene ever containing that much green.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So again - for reference - I check the TDC</span>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some Green - but mostly blue.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then take a look at the regular SE "remastered " 2004 DVD</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even more blue tint.<br />
Notice the matte painted soldiers of the far left & right have been replaced.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So - upon referencing the 1985 <span style="background-color: #444444;">Pan & Scan Laserdisc </span>-</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">( other than being cropped - this image should be absolutely identical )</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The 1985 Pan & Scan Standard Play (CAV) US release.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But it's not identical. However - this is the way I remember it - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">which is the reason why the Widescreen version just stood out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So it must be this disc itself - as the video itself it sourced from both</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> the same print and same master tape.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d;">1. Briefing about attack Death Star</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> So- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> does the world's 1st Widescreen release of Star Wars on Home Video </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> really manage to still be the BEST version of Lucas's Original</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Unaltered Masterpiece </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">after 30 years ? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Hard to judge. The 1st 4 sides of the copy used in this review have </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">already starting to show signs of degrading and contained light rot -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> either due to age or more likely than not- improper storage conditions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So they get dismissed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Disc 5 / Side three however makes a strong case.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Like the 1985 Pan & Scan release before it -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it's extremely bright - and contains many flaws in the print</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(the way you remember it - before it was cleaned up and restored. )</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IF (?) you still happen to be using either a CRT Projection TV and /or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a standard or HD conventional tube set just to playback these old Laserdisc -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">( like an old school Sony Trinitron Flat tube) then </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THIS may very well be </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THE disc for you.</span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><br /></span> <span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The brighter releases really work well with those darker monitors - </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">( as they were designed to do back in their day )</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and they may (?) even do well when displayed on a small 42" Plasma. </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a modern flat screen LED HD digital panel however - </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">believe it or not - it was the somewhat hated</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> 2004 Bonus DVD copy of the D-1 Mastertape</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that was previously used to produced both the "Faces" Laserdisc</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and "The Definitive Collection" Box set before that -</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which really yielded the best overall picture performance.</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> The difference in sound quality, on the other hand -</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> is an altogether entirely different story.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;">(without getting technical.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike most DVD players today -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> a Laserdisc player itself can adversely effect image quality. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While the best way to transfer the Laserdisc to video -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">is just to import the signal directly to a computer -</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">currently we lack both the capture card &</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"> the software needed </span><span style="background-color: black;">in order to do so. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Besides,</span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> that's a lot of space on the hard drive to use.</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">Therefore a </span><span style="background-color: black;">Pioneer Elite DVD Recorder</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"> was utilized in order t</span><span style="background-color: black;">o capture the</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">and Tripp Lite</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">Isobar.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: x-small;"> @ <a href="http://www.goodsquid.com/">The Good Squid</a> in Japan for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3; font-size: x-small;"><b> The Star Wars "Special Collection" Laserdisc </b></span><span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-size: x-small;">reviewed here. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where to begin? </b> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">That's the question I find myself asking </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">as I was preparing to do a retro review </span>of George's Unaltered Original Widescreen release of Star Wars on the big old shiny Laserdisc - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">( remember them?)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> on the very weekend</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Rogue One is debuting</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> in theatres worldwide.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">So here I am thinking about how</span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to tackle this project -</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> What angle am I going to take ?</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> How shall I approach this- </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">and what will my review reveal to my average reader </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">that hasn't already been discussed many times before?</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> What it is it about this release of the movie,</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> that they may not already know? </span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, as it happens,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"> as</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I reviewed the Laserdisc chapter's menu's - </span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> a question came to mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">When George and company decided to release the now </span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">infamous </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">"Star Wars Trilogy - The Definitive Collection" -</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">why for the love of Money didn't they correct a major flaw </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">in the </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">previous 10 year old </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Standard Play CAV LaserVideo </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">Disc release?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">No- I'm not referring to anything that has to do with </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">color timing and / or "special effects".</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm referring to how many disc were used to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">transfer the print to Laserdisc.</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">I mean--</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Star Wars was a six reel print, </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">and there are two sides to each disc- six total sides</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">on the three discs - right?</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">So why not release the film</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> true it's theatrical version - </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">and only transfer 1 reel to each side? That way -</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> the Home Video release matches the original</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> film - </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">the way it was distributed &</span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> shown in theatres?</span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Granted - a reel change could(?)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> end in the middle</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of a scene - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> and that does occur at one point in this print -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> during the Trash Compactor scene -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> but then again I've experience worse scene breaks</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> with other films between side changes on Laserdisc </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">than what occurs in the</span><span style="font-size: large;"> 35mm film version of Star Wars. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> I wonder why the didn't leave the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark">timing cues</a> in place </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">on the home video releases? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Today "prints" are a thing of the past - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">but in 1993 - </span><span style="font-size: large;"> this was still all SOP in the film distribution </span><span style="font-size: large;">&exhibition industry.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"> I guess I can kind of forgive the original </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">1983 CAV release </span><span style="font-size: large;">for only using 5 sides for the film -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> leaving the sixth side blank</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> ( as Insane as that sounds ), cause you know, really, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">how many people had a Laserdisc player in 1983?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Maybe someone @ Fox or Pioneer didn't want you to</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">have to get up and flip the damn disc over yet one more time? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">However, by 1993 -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">there was a explosion ( pun intended) of</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> LD player's </span><span style="font-size: large;">onto the market</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> - featuring LPCM Digital sound & some - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">such as the Pioneer CLD-D702 </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">even had Jog & Shuffle and both side play ! </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;">Unlike the 1983 pressing -</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> which Pioneer / Fox had control over -</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the 1993 version </span><span style="font-size: large;">was spearheaded by Lucasfilm </span></span><span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">itself,</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> through it's newly developed THX Laserdisc Program -</span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> designed to "elevate the home video & audio experience....</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> to an unprecedented level!" </span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">So now - it begs the question: </span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"> Why the hell not?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Now- I know someone out there, as they read this, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> is thinking they know the answer, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">cause bet you a buck</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> you are thinking it's all Cost related - right? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Well - in this huge 9 disc set -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> which retailed for $249- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">( & that's in 1993 dollars !!!) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">mainly due to it's shipping weight -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> cause someone thought it was a great idea to included</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> that large, </span><span style="font-size: large;">heavy, hard-bound "All about George" book</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> in this release. Now </span><span style="font-size: large;">That ! was the real cost.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> An addition disc would have only added about another </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">$10 bucks to the cost, so I'm not buying it.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">And I didn't - </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> at least not till years later- and used, not @ retail. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Had they simply left out the book- </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I bet it would have save us $50 bucks.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> So I guess now I have my angle -</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> not just for this article,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">but also for the addition review I'm going to write</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> about the other CAV Widescreen release - </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;">The Special Collection Edition from Japan.</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> This is for those of you whom -</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> as many times as you have seen the original Star Wars, </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> either on Laser, Beta, VHS, or via DVD, </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">missed seeing the original film during it's many theatrical runs - </span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">and would like to know where each reel of film ends</span><br />
<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> & </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">where the next one begins. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: cyan;">For reference - I'm going to compare where each real ends - and the next one begins - with where they can be found on the Definitive Collection LD, and it's DVD counterpart - the Bonus Disc from the 2006 Limited Edition - which was sourced from the same D-1 Master tape. yes- the FACES Edition was also sourced from the same Master- however- it's CLV & contains fewer Chapter Markers ( only 38 Vs. the DVD's 50 Vs. TDC's 82 !) If all you own is a VHS copy, I'm sorry. I'll note running times. Keep in mind that this is not technically the last frame on the reel - as the second timing cue ( which last 4 frames ) is placed @ about one second , at 22 frames, before the end of the reel.</span><br />
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NOW - to it's credit, The Def. collection did manage<br />
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( Disc 4 ends @ the end of film reel 5.) <br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>REEL 1 :</b></span><br />
The award winning reel one comes to end just as R2 & 3PO<br />
follow Luke down into the garage as the image <span style="font-size: large;"> Fades to black.</span><br />
This is the one timing cue in which I had to used the 16mm frame for a reference,<br />
& this is the 1st timing cue of the two - which appears 8 seconds <br />
( or 174frames ) before the reel's end.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">REEL 2</span> </span></b>Begins.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">REEL 2</span></b> </span>ends here:<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tarkin: ...</span> "We will then crush<br />
<pre> the Rebellion with one swift stroke"</pre>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TDC Disc 2 Ch. 23.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: red;">REEL 3</span></b></span> begins here: <br />
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<b> </b> This reel change occurs @ 1:16:08 @ the end of<br />
Chapter 34 / Beginnings of Chapter 35<br />
"I've got a bad feeling about this."<br />
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<b><br /></b><b> This final reel change occurs @ 1:38:34</b></div>
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<b> @ the end of Ch. 43 & exactly @ Ch. 44 mark</b></div>
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<b> just after Han says to Luke</b></div>
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<b> it's sourced from The 2006 Bonus DVD of the Definitive Collection.</b><br />
<b> ( Along with the 1st frame of each following reel.) </b><br />
<b> The timing cue was digitally added to the 1st frame.</b><br />
<b> The frames displayed showing all other timing cues were sourced </b><br />
<b> from the <span style="background-color: black;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Star Wars: 35mm Silver Screen Theatrical</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><b> print restored</b><br />
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<b> The frame used to represent chapter 17 on the 2006 BONUS DVD</b><br />
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<b> The image used here to represent chapters 27 & 28 in the 2006 Bonus DVD</b><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-39095706235314947832016-10-16T21:48:00.001-07:002018-02-02T03:17:33.996-08:00 Flashback: Digital Sound Recording arrives w / The 3M Digital Mastering System<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">From the Files of db- </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">The Sound Engineering Magazine: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444;"><span style="color: yellow;">February 1980.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">The world's 1st Multi-track Digital Recorder -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">The Digital Mastering System by 3M, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">arrived in the late 70's.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">It was expensive, carrying with it</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;"> a price tag of just under $150,000.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">It wasn't the 1st Digital Recorder -</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #444444; color: yellow; font-size: large;">( that was The Soundstream DTR)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-size: large;">But it was use to produce the <span style="font-family: sans-serif;">world’s first</span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif;"> digitally recorded commercial release.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">The compact disc was still three-years away.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">More importantly- ( and Not as well-known) </span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">This was the system that was used to</span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">produce The Empire Strikes Back Radio Drama</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">@ Studio M in St. Paul - M</span></span><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;">innesota in 1983.</span></span><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-4827483391763377662016-10-10T00:12:00.002-07:002017-07-25T19:30:12.152-07:00Man Cave Stereo - The Workbench CD to CC Transfer System <div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ah -October –</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">"At least someone is seeing a
little excitement."</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Fall has arrived at last,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> and
it's about damn time.
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<span style="font-size: large;">The temp is perfectly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> dry 64 degrees..</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's just after midnight and it will go down to near 60 before
dawn. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Perfect. I'm going to need that much
time to finish this little plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyhow, now I can finally move the recording gear
out to the garage to be mated with the system out there-</span><span style="font-size: large;">currently a old 80's <span style="background-color: black;"> NAD 3130 Amp
driving driving a small pair of </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">JBL </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15pt;">Northridge
Series N24 </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">2-way
speakers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: black;">Trust
me – they are a perfect match</span>.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Time to drag out the old <a href="http://2x-file.blogspot.com/2012/04/how-to-build-your-inexpensive-isolation.html">Isolation Platforms</a> and utilize the new </span><span style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Johnny Workbench</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">recently
acquired from Harbor Freight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: yellow;">The workbench worked out great. I simply put down a piece of carpet - and hooked the amp up on the bottom shelf and mounted the speakers up on the top shelf.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The project -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To Transfer “<a href="https://highbridgeaudio.com/starwars.html">The Star Wars RadioDrama</a>” CD's</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> to cassette tape for an old friend.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Now - you got to be asking -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Why on Earth would I do this</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> when you can buy
purchase the HighBridge cassette </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from Ebay or Amazon for less than $25
bucks ? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">There is even the <a href="https://highbridgeaudio.com/starwarsdarkside.html">Single Disc Mp3</a> Topps Trading Card Limited Edition Version that can be had for less.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> ( Not to mention the fact that -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I already </span><span style="font-size: large;">copy of this release on cassette tape.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I'll have to get to that in a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">1st - The gear - </span> <br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">For CD playback</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I used a </span><span style="font-size: large;">2003 Sony 5 Disc</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.crutchfield.com/p_158RCDW500/Sony-RCD-W500C.html"> RCDW-500C</a> CD player / Recorder because</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> it's ultra smooth and very underrated </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">2
Ch. 24-Bit </span><span style="font-size: large;">( AKM AK4584) DAC chip. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;">You know – the same company that
provided</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> the DAC to Sony </span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee; font-size: large;">for the infamous Playstation One</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">( accept that DAC was only a 1-bit
Delta Sigma )</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and everybody out there seems to think it's</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the best damn sounding little
steal of a deal CD players to like ever come along in our lifetimes … </span><span style="font-size: large;">but that's another story. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> This CD
recorder retailed for a mere $300 bucks over 10 years ago-</span><span style="font-size: large;">and both the build and sound quality on
it are way above it's price tag.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>As a matter of fact – unless you are
willing to layout some big bucks to buy your way into the high end of
stupid – the only CD player you are more than likely going to find
today with a better build quality for $300 or less is to simply buy
a used Laserdisc player on Ebay.</b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"> I happen to own one – </b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>Pioneer's best
Industrial LD Player ever produced</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b> the <a href="http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/tech/manuals/ld-v8000Specifications.pdf">LD-V8000</a>. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>However, she
doesn't play CD's.
</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>If you want to go that route - you'll have to find one with a
20-bit DAC – because most of those Pulseflow DAC aren't as good as
the AKM Chip used in this Sony.</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;">Next up – the cassette recorder.</span> </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b>I own several tape decks. Heck – </b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b>I
even thought about buying another one just for this little project.
However- in the end - </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b> I decided the just to ahead and use my</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b> Pioneer <a href="https://www.cnet.com/products/pioneer-ct-w606dr-dual-cassette-deck/specs/">CT-W606DR</a> double cassette
deck. </b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">No- it's Not the Elite Version of the
deck ,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">but this was still one of the best sounding
dual tape decks Pioneer ever made -</span></b></span><b style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;">thanks mainly in part to the on-board
20bit A/D, D/A DSP Noise Reduction chip.</span></b></div>
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<h3>
<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">This system actually works better going the other way around - when being used to transfer cassettes to CD = as the tape deck is a better playback unit than a reorder. </span></b></span></h3>
<h3>
<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">YES- I know </span></b></span><span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">– I can already hear some
of you screaming right now- "</span><span style="font-size: large;">A double cassette deck instead of a
high end single well, three head/motor</span></b></span><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> recorder you say... No way! </span><span style="font-size: large;">Say it isn't so." </span><span style="font-size: large;">The scene from Empire
Strikes Back comes to mind – </span></b><b style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">you know the one where Luke Screams
“That's not true – that's impossible!” just after Vader tells
him he's his Father. Yep.</span></b></h3>
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<br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: white;">It's true..all of it</span>.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"> <span style="font-size: large;">?Weaknesses – well, yes, there are.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">The build quality on the double tape
deck is lacking.
</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unlike the decks of old where they were
built like brick shit houses w/ their solid brass and copper frames –
this thing is a cheap feather weight. The build quality on the Sony
CD player/ recorder is better than average - and way better than
today's el-cheapo plastic Blu-ray players that you'll find in most of
today's big box stores. Heck – you could play frisbee with my Sony
BDP1700 it's so light. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is one of those areas where the True High End beats Mid-Fi gear.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b>So at 1<sup>st</sup> I was going to put
a brick on top of the tape deck's housing , although I ended up using
a 25 pound weight – cause I preferred to use the brick a top the
CD player. This was done Not because I'm one of those audio nuts who
is foolish enough to believe that a brick on top will improve the
sound quality ( ok – yeah deep down where I don't talk about these
things at parties – maybe I do? ) but rather it was done just to prevent the
deck from moving. I also added two large anti – skid pads (a flipped a pair of "furniture sliders " ) by super-gluing them to the
back bottom underside of the deck – which really kept the player
from moving at all. </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"><b>It also leveled it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now for the interconnect. My personal
favorite cable to use is the 3ft Fusion Audio Cable from –</span><span style="font-size: large;">of all places - Radio Shack. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> Yes- you
read that right. Hard to believe? </span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">This Premium cable was only
manufactured for a year due to a deal struck w/ Monster Cable in 2004
( kind makes you wonder, doesn't it?) and was of much higher quality than their standard Gold Cables at the time. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">As a matter of fact – it
was better than the Monster </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">( </span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;">in this case the <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans serif";"><a href="http://www.terapeak.com/worth/monster-cable-interlink-400-mkii-rca-audio-interconnect-cable-4m-13-12ft-new/322263857220/">Interlink 400 MKII</a> )</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans serif"; font-size: large;"> )</span><span style="font-size: large;"> that replaced it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b>Furthermore -</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: lime;"><b> reviews of this cable were all of high praise </b></span> </span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black; color: orange;">One reviewer, who owns
some of those extreme top-of-the-line, not to mention, expensive cables
– from manufactures such as Kimber and </span><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b style="background-color: #cccccc; color: orange;"> </b><b style="background-color: #cccccc; color: orange;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans serif";">Audioquest</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans serif";">-</span></b><span style="background-color: black;"><b><span style="color: #e69138;">wrote that the Fusion
Cables were</span></b><span style="color: orange;">:</span></span><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: orange;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: magenta;"><i><span style="background-color: black; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">far
superior to any high end cable </span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: magenta;"><i><span style="background-color: #20124d;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: medium;">that costs under $300</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
<b style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif;">I
couldn't agree more.</span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif;">For
less than $30bucks, </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif;">what more could you ever ask for?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica" , "lucida sans" , "arial" , "sans" serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></span>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #444444; font-size: large;">I
don't know about you- but I had to ask myself- “Am I ever likely to
spend $300 or more on a single 3ft pair of analog interconnects today
in an HDMI / fiber optic world? Er – NO. No I'm not</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-large;">Hence
– The Fusions. </span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">I'm proud to own them I tell you, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> they really do a
real nice job.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Now
I know most everyone runs their cables from</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #ffd966;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> the CD player 1</span><sup><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">st</span></sup></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">
to the amp – then out of the amp</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> ( via the tape monitor out) to the
tape recorder – </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">and / or vice versa – but in this case I ran the
interconnects directly to the tape deck –</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;"> then out to the NAD – </span></span></b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">in order to preserve </span></span></b></span><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">the most direct signal path and thereby </span></span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;">reduce any signal loss.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966; font-size: large;"> Both desks have headphone jacks </span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">and I'm going
to use the headphone </span></span></b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #ffd966;">output</span></span></b></span><br />
<b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffd966;"> in the tape deck to monitor the transfer</span>.</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span>
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">At this point – I bet you are
thinking I'm making a transfer to a Maxell XSII-S </span><span style="font-size: large;">or a Sony-UX Pro right? </span></b></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Well –
Hardly. </span> </b> </div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>Truth be told – all of this might be
for not.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b> Let me explain.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>See, the reason I'm doing this, is
because </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: medium;"><b>way back in 1982, </b></span><b style="color: magenta;">The Star Wars Radio Drama</b></span><br />
<b style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"> came to one of my
best friends</span></b><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b> via the way of a guy who had “bootlegged”
them</b></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b> from our local NPR station and recorded it</b></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b> on some
Scotch AVC audio cassettes</b></span><br />
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b> that I've never seen since.</b></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>You can read about that story <a href="http://2x-file.blogspot.com/2012/06/my-responce-to-star-wars-radio-drama.html">here</a>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: cyan;"> <span style="font-size: large;">I can only figure / guess that the
cassettes were only manufactured for a year or two, or maybe (?)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> they
were ( more likely than not) only manufactured </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">& sold in bulk to
studio's, radio stations, business, etc etc, etc, but I've never
been able to cross reference them</span></span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> w/ a barcode.</span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Now - since it was the early 80's, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">I realize that Not
all products for sale in retail</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> had switched over to the barcode
system at this point,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> so this is just my theory. I don't really know for sure.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> However-</span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> As it would happen, one day I'm on the
Ebay –</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> AND </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">There They Were! </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> A </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">whole box</span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> of em – </span><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">unused</span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> !</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> I
bought them then and there, and</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> several days later –</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: cyan;"> here they be !</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until this point in time -</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yellow Label Version of this cassette - </span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">It's kind of like rediscovering an old friend I
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">In some ways I like the look of these tapes more than </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> the look of the Clear HighBridge Produced cassettes . </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">The one thing I found odd</span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> about the HighBridge cassette
production </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">was the fact that -instead of only recording</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> one episode
per side - </span><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">the manufacture
recorded </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">three episodes on a 45 minute tape –</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> and split episode 12
between sides One and Two –</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> so there is a break in the episode.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> Not only was this strange, but I didn't care for it. </span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> They could have
accomplished this better if they did it</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> during a scene change –
there are several, but no.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> They split it during the middle of a
scene,</span><br />
<span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;"> and not even equally. </span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now - </span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">I realize that it was more than likely a
cost saving move</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">as now instead of 7 cassettes - </span><span style="font-size: large;">there are only
six –</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> and this thing 1</span><sup>st</sup><span style="font-size: large;"> retailed for only $39.99 in
1993.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> The price later dropped to a mere $34.99 on the re-release in 1996 - </span><span style="font-size: large;">even though they actually added cassette shell's for each tape.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"> <span style="font-size: small;">HighBridge did, however, allow
episode 13 to stand by itself, on it's own disc on the $65 dollar,+ 7
disc CD version. Maybe it just came down to how many cassettes the
cardboard box was designed to hold? Interesting enough – they did
“fill in” the 7<sup>th</sup> CD w/ “The Making of” and
addition bonus material in the “Complete “ and “Trilogy”
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">So now - here we have these Scotch AVC
“Heavy Duty” cassettes.</span><span style="font-size: large;">They are now 35 years old. I have no
idea what their storage conditions have been like. </span><span style="font-size: large;">They could have been in someone's basement
or in an non air-conditioned </span></span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">attic all these years.</span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;">In that case –</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"> they might (?) be in
terrible shape.</span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"> God only knows.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've stored my cassettes in a dark
closet –</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"> maintained @ a temp range of between 69 -71 degrees </span><span style="font-size: large;">for years, and while most play
just fine, some of them are still not without issues.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="color: #b6d7a8;">So here we are.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> Once I plugged both
decks into my</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> <span style="background-color: black;">OneAC Power Conditioner</span> I was ready</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> for an all –
nighter.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> Yes – I've cleaned the heads and rollers, and </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">wiped
everything down with an anti-static cloth, ok? </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">So after deciding which version </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">( either the <span style="background-color: black;">HBP 25621, 25697, or the 30086</span> ) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> I was going to use – I loaded
the CD tray,</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> inserted the 1<sup>st</sup> blank cassette - </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">put the
Pioneer into record standby – </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #b6d7a8;">set the recording level – and "here, we, go" -</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"><b><u> straight on till morning.</u></b> </span></span><span style="color: #b6d7a8;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: cyan;"> <span style="color: #674ea7;">Yes- I then turned off the</span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> fluorescent
</span></span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"> lights – </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">just on the off</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">chance they might produce a 60Hz buzz. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">Besides – </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;">we all know this stuff sounds better in the dark. </span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">Did I manage to finish getting all the
episodes transferred </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">by the time I raised the garage door as the sun
came up at 7am? </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">Well- </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">Not quite – we stopped @ episode 10. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #d9d2e9; font-size: large;">But how did we do when</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"> it was</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #d9d2e9;"> all said and done<b>?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Well –</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> I had to stop after four cassettes to clean the rollers. </span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">How did the tapes sound when I played
them back? </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>Believe it or not - </b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>Not bad ! But not great either.</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>Truth be told = the cassettes are so old -</b></span><br />
<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b> there were dropouts. </b></span><b style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">So- obviously </b></div>
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"><b>NOT as good as if I had recorded em on one
of them there </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-size: large;">Maxell </span><span style="font-size: large;">XSII-S's or TDK SA-X's or Sony UX-Pro's </span></b></span><b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: medium;"> (</span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">these
Scotch's are so NOT chromes ), but still...</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">That wasn't the goal of this reproduction. </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Dropouts aside - </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">except for missing that infamous </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">"An adaptation for Radio in thirteen parts " line</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">as read by the late Ken Hiller </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I believe they might just be on par w/ the originals?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">Wish we still had one of my beloved copies to compare.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I have no idea how long ( or how
many plays )</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> you might be able get out of them –</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">but, truth be told, all
things considered </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">I wouldn't recommend playing
them very often -</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> or even at all.</span></b><b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> They might (?) leave behind a heavy residue </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: medium;">–</span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> and the tape might stick to itself or worse yet -</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">bind up inside the old cassette deck.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">No - </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <b><i><span style="color: orange;">This is more of a keepsake. </span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><span style="color: orange;"> I'm willing to bet that he'll be
stunned.</span> </i></b> </span><br />
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No, I am Not going to review the film. Neither of them. No - The original Terminator film has been re-released so many times on Blu-Ray it borders on being absurd. However, there was a time before the DVD , when it was only released on VHS and Laserdisc.<br />
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One of the finer things to come from this era,<br />
was all the extra's that once upon a time use to come packaged with your disc or tape.<br />
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These so called "Extras" now are delivered these days as part of the "BD Live" content. Receiving a printed book is largely becoming a thing of the past. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However - Once upon a time - just a few short 20 years ago - there were these special VHS Box Set releases of your favorite movies. ( Man - did Disney ever making a killing on them! These Box Sets included the VHS Movie along with a whole bunch of printed material and would sell for a much as $100 bucks !) Those of you who were there and remember this can testify as to the fact that I'm not making any of this stuff up. But alas - today this extra stuff is just about gone. Today it's all about how cheap and portable they can make it. No one cares about "collecting" the hard copy any more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So here, now, I give you some of those "extra's" </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">from one of those VHS box sets -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> This is from The Terminator Collection -</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> which boxed T1 & T2 together. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<br />Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-68646132512496955202015-05-03T17:12:00.000-07:002019-02-03T02:46:29.963-08:00Did the Laser VideoDisc matter ? <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Laserdisc may be a dead format today, but it was a major stepping stone for the industry to reach modern technologies such as the CD, DVD, HD-DVD and the current Blu-ray disc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to various sources on the web</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">it's estimated that in 1998, roughly a mere two million LaserDisc players were in U.S. households.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">By contrast it's estimated that even to this day there may still yet be some 100 million VHS Vcr's out there and before the dawn of Blu-ray there were some 137 million DVD players. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The top selling DVD of all time, Disney's Finding Nemo, sold almost - get this - 40 million copies at the peak of DVD's popularity. Even today, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> in the HD / Streaming era, a title can still sell well over 4 million copies in the US alone..and Yes Pinky– they count those disc packaged together with the Blu-ray's. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Keep in mind that this is back when those titles were $34-$100 bucks each, and that's in 1990 dollars. This was during the height of VHS' dominate – not only for “sell-through” but for rentals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But sell they did. They were even more popular in Japan because prices were kept low to ensure adoption, resulting in minimal price differences between VHS. Their higher quality helped to ensure that it quickly became the dominant consumer video format! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime">Anime</a> collectors in every country also quickly became familiar with the <a href="http://animelaserdiscs.tumblr.com/">Laserdisc,</a> and sought the higher video and sound quality of that it offered and the availability of numerous titles not available on VHS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Laserdisc's major contribution was during the days of the old analog big screen TV's when VHS resolution simply failed to go the distance. We are talking before the days of progressive scan or 60 or 120Hz. - when the monitor was only capable of an interlaced picture at a mere 30 frames a second. These large boxes might have been capable of producing 800 plus lines of resolution but the only way that was going to happen was IF you had a Laserdisc player connected to a line doubler – which so few people – other than those video nuts with deep pockets ever saw. If all you had was broadcast resolution or a VCR however – that picture left a lot to be desired., which I believe was one of the major reasons why these things didn't sell nearly as well as the old 35 -40 direct view CRT's – that, along with their $2799+ price tags. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Speaking of dollars, Laserdisc was always expensive, even in its death throws when player's dropped to a mere $500 bucks – American. By contrast –</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> VCR's were always cheaper -and allowed the consumer to do the one thing they really wanted to do – </span><span style="font-size: large;">which was to record their own tapes. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Dvd players might have started out expensive</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> ( and by expensive – I'm talking average price $350 – 800 ) </span><span style="font-size: large;">but they got cheap quick. Never the less – </span><span style="font-size: large;">in 1997 Pioneer released the world's first Laser LVD/DVD combination player. </span><span style="font-size: large;">To everyone's surprise, </span><span style="font-size: large;">the </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">DVL-700</i><span style="font-size: large;"> outsold all other DVD & LD players </span><span style="font-size: large;">that year, </span><i style="font-size: x-large;">regardless</i><span style="font-size: large;"> of the brand or the price! Personally - I've owned two of these machines. After my 1st one of 10 years died - my brother bought me a replacement one, and it's still the player I use today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That unit along with the last Laserdisc player Pioneer ever produced,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the DVL-919 - contained modern AC-3 digital outputs, component video, S-video & composite video outputs, </span><span style="font-size: large;"> 96Khz/24-Bit digital audio decoding, and even used an </span><span style="font-size: large;">on-screen display graphical user interface. ( GUI ). </span><span style="font-size: large;">All the features that would later be found on almost all</span><span style="font-size: large;"> DVD players </span><span style="font-size: large;">were already there with these LD units. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Joe Kane Productions produced and released “Video Essentials” </span><span style="font-size: large;">on Laserdisc in June of 1996 as a tool to help measure & adjust audio / video systems. The program was released at the height of the Laserdisc phenomenon. It was a source of signals for system calibration, including Dolby Digital</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> ( more about this latter)‚ </span><span style="font-size: large;">test tones and conventional video patterns. </span><span style="font-size: large;">By including anamorphic video test patterns </span><span style="font-size: large;">this disc was ahead of its time in anticipating the widescreen video revolution and contained highest possible quality composite video that could be put on laserdisc at the time. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Reformatting it for DVD a year later proved to be difficult </span><span style="font-size: large;">because they were attempting to reproduce many of the same features like - topic search, stop frame and step frame capabilities found in ON The Laserdisc. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Guess what? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Joe Kane still produces an HD Video Essentials program today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The format's instant-access capability made it possible for a new breed of LaserDisc-based video <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade_game">arcade games</a> and several companies saw potential in using LaserDiscs for video games in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning in 1983 with Sega's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astron_Belt"><i>Astron Belt</i></a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Laser_Games">American Laser Games</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematronics">Cinematronics</a> produced elaborate arcade consoles that used the random-access features to create interactive movies such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Lair"><i>Dragon's Lair</i></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ace"><i>Space Ace</i></a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Check <a href="http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7647">THIS link</a> out ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These games still exist in one format or<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3XNQja0H7I"> another</a> today. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the mid-1980s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasfilm">Lucasfilm</a> pioneered the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EditDroid">EditDroid</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-linear_editing_system">non-linear editing system</a> for film and television based on the LaserDisc jukebox players .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Instead of printing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dailies">dailies</a> out on film, the processed negatives would be sent to the mastering plant to be assembled from their 10-minute camera negative elements into 20-minute film segments which would then be mastered onto single-sided blank LaserDiscs, just as a DVD would be burnt at home today with a recorder and allow for much easier selection and preparation of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_Decision_List">Edit Decision List</a>. In the days before <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_assist">video assist</a> was available in cinematography, this was the only other way a film crew could see their work.The EDL then went to the negative cutter who then cut the camera negative accordingly and assembled the finished film. Only 24 EditDroid systems were ever built, even though the ideas and technology are still in use today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to it – we now have the famous “Lost Editdroid” <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/26/laserdisc-star-wars-editdroid/">Star Wars footage</a> that was just “discovered” in 2013 .</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Introducing Digital Sound</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica";"><span point-size="10">Laserdiscs originally had only two analog hi-fi tracks, roughly equivalent in sound quality to hi-fi stereo in VHS. However- In the 1980's, after the rise of the CD, Laserdiscs gained two 44.1 kHz 16-bit Red Book LPCM stereo digital tracks, the very same Digital sound as was found on the CD. Furthermore, today's Digital Sound formats, DTS - and Dolby, would make their debut on the Laserdisc. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> One of the DTS Inc.'s initial investors was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_director" title="Film director">film director</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>, who felt that theatrical sound formats were no longer state of the art. Spielberg debuted the format with his 1993 production of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_%28film%29" title="Jurassic Park (film)">Jurassic Park</a>. </i> <i>Jurassic Park</i> also became the first home video release to contain DTS sound when it was released on LaserDisc in January 1997, a mere two years after the first Dolby Digital home video release of A <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_Present_Danger_%28film%29" title="Clear and Present Danger (film)">Clear and Present Danger</a></i> on Laserdisc, in January 1995. <span point-size="10"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;"><span point-size="10"> <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Laserdiscs with Dolby Digital Soundtracks replaced the right analog track with the compressed 5.1 AC-3 track.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span point-size="10"> DTS, on the other hand, replaced <b>both</b> digital tracks. The Dts tracks on Laserdisc were BETTER than their later DVD counterparts, thanks to the extra room on the larger disc. The DTS tracks were recorded @ the full Bit rate of 1500kps, compared to the DVD's reduced 750kps bitrate. As of matter of fact - it would take today's Blu-ray disc to finally match or exceed the sound quality that could once be found on the old Laserdisc. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;"><span point-size="10">Which brings us to : The "THX Digital Mastering Program",</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;"><span point-size="10"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: small;"><span point-size="10"> Lucasfilm's program of monitoring the transfer of film to home video, which began in the Laserdisc era, unofficially with "</span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Apocalypse Now" and officially with "The Abyss" as</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The company is still in business today, alive and well, thanks to Blu-ray. <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many of the Laserdisc releases were later re-released on the DVD format </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(but NOT ALL<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of them were. )</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"> If you would like to know more about their LD's releases, then simply</span><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-35002302973600967692014-07-23T18:57:00.002-07:002014-07-23T18:57:50.248-07:00All About the Sound. I loved this. It's awesome ! It's all about the sound quality, or I should say, the lack of it on today lo-res gear. Way to go HK ! Thank you for producing <a href="http://www.distortionofsound.com/">THIS</a> ! Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-57044922779453862402014-07-06T20:36:00.000-07:002015-12-24T21:30:49.021-08:00Old school film to Laserdisc transfer: Why they are different from modern releases.<br />
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I use to be an old school I.A. 35mm Motion Picture projectionist. When handling film, you had to be real careful not to scratch the print, and that meant wearing protective gloves and making good proper splices , threading the damn projector correctly, thereby not making the loops to big or small to ensure that the print would not get scratched. It also meant screening the print, not to mention maintaining the equipment . Any mistake you made might cause damage, which would end up on screen (as dirt or scratches, bad splices, etc.) I became so familiar with the types of film stock and prints, I could tell you the type of film stock ( Fuji , Kodak - Estar / Technicolor / Eastman , etc- that was being projected -simply by looking at the screen. These 35mm positive prints were used in Telecine machines.<br />
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<b>Telecine</b> (<span class="nowrap"><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ɛ/ short 'e' in 'bed'">ɛ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ə/ 'u' in 'syrup'">ə</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'">ɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span 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href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/ɪ/ short 'i' in 'bid'">ɪ</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span></a></span><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" title="Help:IPA for English"><span style="border-bottom: 1px dotted;" title="/iː/ long 'e' in 'seed'">iː</span></a></span><span class="IPA" title="Representation in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English">/</a></span></span>) is the process of transferring <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_picture" title="Motion picture">motion picture</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmstrip" title="Filmstrip">film</a> into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video" title="Video">video</a> and is performed in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_suite" title="Color suite">color suite</a>. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#cite_note-1"></a></sup> Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_stock" title="Film stock">film stock</a>, to be viewed with standard video equipment, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_set" title="Television set">television sets</a>, <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_cassette_recorder" title="Video cassette recorder">video cassette recorders</a> (VCR), and Laserdisc. This allows <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_producer" title="Film producer">film producers</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_producer" title="Television producer">television producers</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_distributor" title="Film distributor">film distributors</a> working in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry" title="Film industry">film industry</a> to release their <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_%28business%29" title="Product (business)">products</a> on video and allows producers to use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_production" title="Video production">video production</a> equipment to complete Tv production, such as was done in Star Trek : TNG. <br />
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So, since every print was different, it meant that very release of a Laserdisc that was produced was also different. Since the days of Laserdisc, Telecines were replaced by High-Def film scanners , and now film has been replaced ( for the most part) with Direct to Digital Ultra High-Def video cams and then mastered in High-Def before being transfer ( down-converted) to Blu-ray, so gone are the days of having a film source.<br />
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The above was copied from Wiki. A 35 mm film print. At far left and far right, outside the perforations, is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Dynamic_Digital_Sound" title="Sony Dynamic Digital Sound">SDDS</a> soundtrack as an image of a digital signal. Between the perforations is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Digital" title="Dolby Digital">Dolby Digital</a>
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area between the perforations). Just inside the perforations, on the
left side of the image, is the analog optical soundtrack, with two
channels encoded using <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Analog_SR" title="Dolby Analog SR">Dolby SR</a> noise reduction that can be dematrixed into four channels using <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_Pro_Logic" title="Dolby Pro Logic">Dolby Pro Logic</a>. The optical timecode used to synchronize a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_System" title="Digital Theater System">DTS</a>
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I love comparing the difference in film stocks and prints that you can clearly see in the film stocks ( and the film weave as it travels via sprockets through the gate ) and seeing the difference in the dirt and scratches that the different prints have while watching the Laserdisc, and then comparing the different Laserdisc releases of the same film- before the days when everything was Digital - remastered in Ultra 8 and 4K. ( Not that I don't love that too.)Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-3048740373428426132013-07-23T08:40:00.000-07:002016-12-02T01:46:49.319-08:00What I like BEST about the old LaserDisc. Remember them? <span style="background-color: #0b5394;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>But hold on.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Wait a minute.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Where does the old Laserdisc fit into this?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Well, they don't, right?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Come on, lets face it,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> they are a throwback to the pre-digital era gone by, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> left behind by current technology. Right?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> I mean a mere 400 lines of analog resolution !</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Who cares, right? </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>They (sometimes) can look horrific</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> on these new 1080p LCD displays,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> so why keep them?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Throw them away, and leave then behind already. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Heck, LD's are barely a step above that old analog</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> video recording system call VHS, so what's the big deal?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Get over it. The industry is Moving on....Next.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Now, just hold on there. Wait a minute.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Wait a minute....</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Not so fast there young whipper-snapper, not so fast.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> So, please tell me, why is it , that, to this day,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> I still find that I both want and desire them?</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> I mean, I not only do I like them, but I actual like some of them</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> more than their DVD and Blu-ray HD counterparts,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> even though the analog picture most certainly doesn't stand up </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>on modern day HDTV's. ( Upscaling not included. ) </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Why? - you ask. </b></span></div>
<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b> <span style="font-size: small;">Well, I was reading a response that some young adult posted</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> in regard to a picture that someone else had posted of their CD, record and old reel to reel tape collection over on</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Audioholics"> Audioholics </a>Facebook Page</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In which he said: </span></span></h4>
<h4>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"> <span style="font-size: small;">“It's interesting how the notion of your own collection changes when you have it stored on an external hard drive. You tend to forget about the CD/DVD/LP object, as your relationship with it is through your screen; reading the scanned booklets, loading tracks to your player, ripping CDs, converting WAV to FLAC, etc.</span></span></span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now- </span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: orange;"></span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> The real change happens when you start purchasing online.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> The
entire chain of buying an the product at the store, carrying it home,
opening it up and reading the booklet, while playing it on your DVD/
CD player or turntable, and then finding it a place among your
personal indexing system, is now - Forever Broken.</span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> With
just a couple of mouse clicks, now you can, without converting,
embedding cover images, or even writing out track names when CD's have
no tags, etc. Now you can simply drag and drop the file into the rest of your
collection - where it finds it's own alphabetical order, while you sit
down and read a book, either on your phone or tablet, and sip your drink.</span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> After
a while, you're no longer grabbing DVD's or CDs or LPs to play. You become
accustomed to your collection on a screen and the DVD/CD player and
the turntable have started collecting dust. Suddenly all you want is
a DAC that will do everything, and you end up getting a Macmini -
that exceeds the energy star requirements several times - to avoid
plugging in your laptop and putting it on top of the CD player every
time you want to jam.</span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Since
the Macmini has now turned you into a believing minimalist, you buy a
super accurate pair of active studio monitors with DSP crossovers in
order to get the old Pre-Amps and Power Amps out of the way and to
make room for your new HD 3D 42" ( or larger) 1080p LED TV. </span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">And bang! --
Without noticing it much, you've gone from HiFi to computer.</span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> Now
you can even start to brag about doing your part to contribution to
helping to stop catastrophic climate change, and how small your
footprint has become- in both plastic and electronic components, not
to mention the electric bill. </span></span></h4>
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Now you can finally enjoy the full size of
your living room, as your collection will never grow beyond the size
of your external drive, and you can comfortably select your track or
movie from the remote App on your tablet without letting your Latte
getting cold.<br /> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Welcome
to the future.”</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>I <span style="font-size: x-small;">thought about this for a while and I've come to this conclusion:</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> All the things that I like BEST about Laserdisc,<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">are NOT digit<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ized<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">.</span></span></span> </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Well, ok, shit- truth be told , <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">they</span> can be,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> simply by using my scanner to digitally transfer the pics</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> and store them on my computer's hard drive.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> ( which IS what I did )</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> Oh sure,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> I can do a frame capture and share it with the world,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> But that's not it.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> NO, what I like BEST about the Laserdisc is </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> the Gatefold jackets and the artwork and letter's</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> from the producer's and director's that came with them.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b> I mean, just look at some this................................</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <b> <span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> </span></b></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;">Now,
another feature of the LaserDisc format I like, just like
a CD, is that “instant play” feature. I don't even have to turn
on the monitor. Since I have a large collection of music on Laser, I
just insert the giant shiny disc, and a couple of seconds later,
sound erupts from my old school 3-way JBL monitors. No ads that
Disney forces me to have to endure; no menus to deal with, no set up
process is needed. No internet to verif<span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">y if my copy is legal. No need to tell the government or an ad agenc<span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">y what I'm watching.</span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> No, not at all. </span></span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span></span> The disc just starts playing.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;"> It's like that
moment when the needle 1</span><sup style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;">st</sup><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif; line-height: 0.15in;"> make contact with a record.
Bliss. Another feature that seems to be going away with today's
Blu-ray DVD discs, is the chapter listings in the paperwork. In some
cases, like with the disc you will find in the Wal-mart / Dollar
General $4 – 5 dollar bin, for example, all you get is the disc.
Period! No booklet, or additional information comes with it. ( Yeah,
I know, what can you expect for less than $5 bucks, right?)</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b><span style="font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;">Some
of today's younger disc buyer's simply have never known or
experienced the joy of opening a disc box that not only included some
great color production photos, but also the chapter listings, some
back ground info, and may included both a booklet and a letter from
the director of the film included. ( like w/the Terminator Laserdisc box-set.)
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><b>Let's NOT even get started on the Star Wars Laserdisc Box sets, ok? </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Sure,
they use to from time to time come out with some nice collector's DVD stuff , back when when these disc were retailing for $30 bucks for a new release of a Two-Disc “Special
Director's Edition” of a film, this 2008 release of "Bonnie & Clyde" comes to mind , </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b> or even the 4 disc collector's set of Pearl Harbor. However I'm not
seeing these type of movie boxsets being produced anymore. Keep in mind I'm not discussing TV series box-sets here . Now it's the $5 – 12 dollar
three to 4 pack of movies on DVD that are being offered, like with
the Superman, Alien, and Arnold movies box sets, with all that extra
stuff being left out in order to move a shit ton of back logged
manufactured disc out of the vender's warehouses before it becomes
out dated by the ever spiraling downward cost of the even more
popular Blu-ray version, before the 4K Ultra HD BR Disc's debut in 2015 .</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-family: "lucida grande" , "tahoma" , "verdana" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><b>Now
all the “extra's” are coming by way of the “BD Live” -
internet streaming feature. Even Blu-ray Skynet Edition of T2 didn't
have a “book” with it like what had come before with both The Artisan
Extreme & Ultimate Edition DVDs.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> Much like Vinyl, you can frame Laservideo Disc covers and display them on the wall. </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you hang a couple of them close enough together, they can be displayed like mini movie posters.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Since I started working in the projection booth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> @ my local Carmike Movie theatre during the late 80's,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I've really liked this.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> That's why I own some of the disc in my collection.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">those are the movies I have fond memories of,</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> the ones that we showed while I was working in all those different movie houses, from that little Carmike <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">three</span> – screen hole in the wall <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">named <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">The</span></span> Astro III<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">(</span></span> which really wasn't a real “job”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> It was more like - party central) in a college town, to the Big AMC 10, 12, and 18 multi-plexes. From General Cinema to Fox to all the independents, once I had become certified to operate all the different gear, I then ran hundreds of films at dozens of locations.</span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> Those frame disc jackets remind me of some great times I had screening those movies with some great friends on all those late Thursday nights. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I've received some of the best reactions from friends when I handed them their favorite film on a Laserdisc - even if they don't<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"> </span>have a player ! They are just blown away </span></span><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">( Ever just given a<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">way</span> A Star Trek Laserdisc @ a Trek Convention?)</span></span>by a Laserdisc Box set that you know they have never seen before,and it's not in the store and they know they will never see it available for sale to the public again. Trust me - Laserdisc may be dead, but to this day - <span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">they</span> STILL make the best gifts ! </span></span></span><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-68363771944925691952013-03-01T05:07:00.000-08:002013-03-01T05:07:02.104-08:00My thought's and responses to Roddenberry's Mission Log Podcast:<span style="font-size: large;">So, I have a question. </span>IN the Original Trek series episode "Amok Time"-<span id=".reactRoot[147].[1][2][1]{comment447512881987089_1256729}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][1]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px;"> </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[147].[1][2][1]{comment447512881987089_1256729}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2]" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px;"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[147].[1][2][1]{comment447512881987089_1256729}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0"><span id=".reactRoot[147].[1][2][1]{comment447512881987089_1256729}.0.[1].0.[1].0.[0].[0][2].0.[0]"> Why don't "we" meet Spock's parent's in this episode ( as opposed to later, in "Journey to Babel"), where he goes "home" for his ""wedding", where he is not only well-known but he states that his family has "owned the land here for over 2000 "Earth-years" right, and the high priest shows up, and yet, no parents @ the prearranged wedding?</span></span></span><br />
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" style="background-color: #edeff4; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 15.555556297302246px;"><span class="UFICommentBody"><span style="line-height: 15.555556297302246px;">Maybe? JUst maybe this was one of Trek's way of saying something about how truly stupid our TV censorship rules were @ that time,, where in @ this time Trek Actress Mariette Hartley, and Mary Ann from "Gilligan's Island," Jeannie from "I Dream of Jeannie," and "Gidget" are all barred from baring their navels on the TV screen, however it was perfectly "ok" to show two men using hand held weapons in a battle to the death. Today it's even worse because it's perfectly ok to show realistic gun violence,( hell how many people can been seen getting shot in the head in and on primetime today?) but Lord forbid if a female performer has a Epic wardrobe failure and they show some cleavage!!! Please. Just Imagine if Mr. "Spock" had been Mrs. "Spockette", and it was the female Vulcan's who went "into heat" and had 2 have "it" every 7 years? They would have never gotten any talk of "sex" past the censors in those days. Ironically enough, Trek was produced by Desilu, and back when Lucy Ball was pregnancy for and during an entire season of the "I Love Lucy," show, the actual word "pregnant" was not allowed because it could not be used on air. Instead, the show uses phrases that seem equally informative but (somehow) less fraught with sin, such as "with child," "having a baby," and "expecting." I don't know, maybe I'm wrong here, but it was just a thought I wanted to share, and isn't that what Mission Log is all about?</span></span></span>Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-50743262731819515742013-02-17T21:48:00.000-08:002013-02-17T21:48:11.083-08:00Time <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"> "I believe that time is a companion that goes with us on the journey and reminds us to cherish every moment, because it will never come again." - Captain Picard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Well, it's about time. About time for an event, one designed by our old friend Steven Hill for us "Space Traveler's", over @ Hearts of Space, in order to celebrate their </span><span style="color: #7b9b3c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.44444465637207px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-center;">40TH ANNIVERSARY !</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-18597392474872134662013-02-08T23:19:00.000-08:002013-02-08T23:41:32.837-08:00I hate 2 admit it, but the greatest Blog site of all time is NOT mine.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Ok, so there. I said it. Not that I'm hanging my head in shame, I've tried to produce a good read, but OMG I love art, (always have) and I just love this guy's Blog. I mean like it's 4 Stars, 2 thumbs up, and all that plus a bag of chips. I'm telling you, dress in drag and go go Mountain Dew the hula. It may well be one of the greatest Blogs covering different 'geek related pop culture" Artwork ever produced to date: I just can't get over the collection of great stuff that he's gathered together all in one place. I've spend days here because it's just so easy to get lost in all of it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have; so here is both my wholehearted endorsement and the link:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Now, I'd say, try not to get lost, or dare you not to get lost, but really, go get lost. It's a futile attempt not to.However, even though I know u don't have 2 have it, or even need it, you most certainly have my permission.</div>
Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-44796031633461119672013-02-01T22:54:00.000-08:002016-03-15T13:16:09.822-07:00Their Cages: Captain Pike & the Prisoner <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today, ol<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">der fan's</span></span> of the Original Star Trek Series by now knows what plot elements from Trek's pilot episode "The Cage" <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had in common</span> with the film "Forbidden Planet", including the fact that the planet which Captain Pike was held Prisoner on <span style="color: #20124d;">(<span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="color: blue;">Talos IV </span></span>)</span> was also the only "Forbidden Planet" for Starships to travel to in Federation space. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Anyone remember The General Order?</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">words</span> "Death Penalty<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">" ring a bell<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">? </span></span> </span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> In this episode, <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Pike</span> was captured and caged, his every move watched and studied by his "Keeper's", as they tried to control him, by the use of illusion.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> He was, a Prisoner! like Number 6!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's<span style="color: #660000;"> Six of One</span></span>, NOT, repeat, NOT <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Seven of Nine</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Why, Six was "the Prisoner" of course. </span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: large;">As it so happens, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/combined">The Prisoner</a> was a <span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="color: #4c1130;">17-episode </span></span>series ( produced by ITC ) that was first broadcast in the UK on the BBC a year after Trek 1st aired in the States , from 29 September 1967 to 1 February 1968 & follows a former secret agent</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> <span style="font-size: small;">( </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Drake_(Danger_Man)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.184px;" title="John Drake (Danger Man)">John Drake</a> ? also played<span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McGoohan" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.184px;" title="Patrick McGoohan">Patrick McGoohan</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;">,) </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> </span></span> <span style="font-size: large;">who is kidnapped and held prisoner in a mysterious coastal village resort .</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: large;"> In "The Village" they do Not use names,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-size: large;"> but instead assign people numbers. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> As a matter of fact, in the episode "The Cage", Captain Pike had an "Number One", who served him, while the Prisoner's Number 6 also had different "Number 2's" , who w<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ere</span> his "keeper", and Six was always asking:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">One is trapped "underground", the other was "undercover". <wbr></wbr>Both refuse to perform or give into their keeper's wishes, even though both their keeper's play "mind games." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Chris Pike and Number Six.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"> For distinction's sake,</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 2) The Cave (one's own privately held false beliefs), </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"> 3) The Marketplace - </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ( or how ad's produced by ad agencies bend or attempt to twist one's perception of truth) and finally</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Today we could/ and should substitute the word "Movie", as many film's that are "based on a true story" but may not have happened like the way we are lead to believe that they may have really happened - while watching the fake "reproduction" of said "true" event.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> He further goes on and dis</span><span style="color: black; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">cusses the idols together with the problem of information gained through the senses,</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;"> and how deceiving that information can be</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and <span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;">remarked that men should renounce the qualities of these Idols.</span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 22px;"> ( I'm not making this stuff up.)</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: large;">A variety of other techniques are also employed in an attempt to try to extract information from the Prisoner, <span style="color: red;">including hallucinogenic drug experiences, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">identity theft, mind control, dream manipulation,<br /> and various forms of social indoctrination</span> in an attempt to break Number Six, not only to find out about why he resigned as an agent, but also to extract "information<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">." </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}"><span class="UFICommentBody _1n4g">According to Prisoner fan Vance Socci , another common
element between Cage and the Prisoner is "the hero's rejection of female
temptation, which seen as a path to another kind of imprisonment. The
Village makes several attempts to "hook up" the prisoner with
feminine delights - the first of which is the blonde maid in "Arrival" ( Episode One)
who offers her services in quite a saucy manner. Pike also rejects his
fellow prisoner Vina, who is actually bait for him. Both sets of captors
use illusion to try to sway the respective heroes."</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> Both Pike and Six operate a post-war atmospheres, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">both of them no longer wanted "the job".</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <wbr></wbr>One "resigns' after he is caged,</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> one is "caged" because he resigns.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> How about that? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">I<span style="font-size: xx-small;">n the end- both of them "escape", ( or do they?)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> only to end up back where they physically started.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> Chris Pike on Talos IV, Six in the Village.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <wbr></wbr><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">The only difference is<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span>that in the end,</span></span><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> both of them WANTed to be there, where they were. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> Both locations switch from Prisons to places of Freedom.</span> <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Pike</span> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">"free" of the wheelchair & his body,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">and for some reason -</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I can't help but think of William Wallace's "<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Freedom" </span>scream at the end of the film "Braveheart" when it comes to Drake's Number 6<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">However Six didn't have to die, he just <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">had </span>to survive and make it out "alive."</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> But is there a Prisoner connection back 2-</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> "The Forbidden Planet"?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Why yes, I think "one" could make a claim that both "the Prisoner" and 'Forbidden Planet" do indeed have something in common, & that's with a little concept called, " Responsibility assumption",</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="font-size: large;"> a doctrine that states an individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their personal life, to a substantially greater degree than is normally "thought". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 19.184px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: initial;" title="Forbidden Planet">Forbidden Planet</a></i><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> featured an analogous concept to responsibility assumption; in which a race of advanced beings called "Krell", through the development of technology, became able to materialize/project their thoughts into reality, to disastrous ends -</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> wiping themselves totally out of existence.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 19.184px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="The Prisoner">The Prisoner</a></i><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> featured an ambiguous climax spawning several interpretations, one of which implicates "responsibility assumption." </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> I</span><span style="line-height: 19.184px;">n the final episode Number 6 apparently succeeded in determining the identity of the mysterious "person" who led the group and thus ultimately determined <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">his o<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">wn </span></span>fate.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <span style="font-size: large;">The Question that was ALWAYS asked by Six:</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> <b>"Who is Number One?</b>"</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> Answer: <b>"You are Number Six." </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">And here you thought ,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> but "<span style="color: #0c343d;">NO man is just A Number."</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Which brings us to ask- <span style="color: #20124d;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> was Rover just a Monster from the ID?</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ah - <span style="font-size: large;">The Monster's we create !</span></b></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">Maybe, just maybe, like </span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Morbius's character ,</span></span></b></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><i><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the Prisoner is </span></span>more about exploring one internal unconscious feelings ( fears, jealousies, prejudices, hate, power and control illusions/ issues, etc etc)</b></i></span><i><b><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"> that all of us harbor , and how those very thoughts effect how we react to the world & those around us, than it is about anything els</span>e.</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> In a real ironic twist,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> the Prisoner's</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> final episode, "</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_Out_(The_Prisoner)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.184px;" title="Fall Out (The Prisoner)">Fall Out</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;">", </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> received a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.184px;" title="Hugo Award">HugoAward</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> nomination for</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080; line-height: 19.184px;" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Best Dramatic Presentation</a><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> in 1969.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> However that award went to"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> </span><i style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)" style="background-image: none; color: #0b0080;" title="2001: A Space Odyssey (film)">2001: A Space Odyssey</a>,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><i style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> which starred </i><b style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;">Gary Lockwood,</b></span></div>
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(<b>You know- the guy who was given God like</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="line-height: 19.184px;"> "Where No Man Has Gone Before."</span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 19.184px;"> </span></span></div>
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-84703629805802267032013-01-31T16:56:00.001-08:002013-01-31T16:56:56.586-08:00Star Trek 2 The FORBIDDEN Planet <span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;">In 1956, a science fiction movie that made a Robot named Robby a household name, called The </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet" style="background-image: none;" title="Forbidden Planet">Forbidden Planet</a></i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;"> , (which is now considered the Grandfather of today's modern Sci-Fi cinema) </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;">was first released on April 1<span style="font-size: x-small;">st, </span>and it was no joke. In the film, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;">the United Planets Cruiser C57-D travels to the planet Altair IV, 16 light-years from Earth, to discover the fate of an expedition sent 20 years earlier.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;"> Sounds a lot like A Star Trek episode, doesn't it? And that's because it was</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;"> one of the inspirations for the series. Now I could go on and compare "The Cage", Star Trek's pilot episode to the movie, however I feel that ground has been covered many times before. Besides, I'd rather discuss how and what the "The Cage" and the BBC series "the Prisoner" have in common with each other. However, very few people ever really discuss how many times the planet Altair has been referenced in the world of Star Trek , so I thought I'd take a moment to shed some light on the subject (if you will pardon the pun).</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 19.18402862548828px;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"> During the Original series, in the year</span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2267- an Interplanetary conflict between Altair III and VI ends. The Starship Enterprise ordered to attend inauguration of the new president, but the visit is postponed when Spock diverted the ship to Vulcan because he was in "Pon farr" in the Episode "Amok Time". Also note, this planet, Altair VI, was mentioned in the audio transmissions of the Kobayashi Maru training simulation sequence in "Wrath of Khan"!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Apparently, almost a Century later, Altair III is still a hostile place to be, because it is mentioned in the 1st "Next Gen" Episode pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint", that Will Riker would not his Captain, of the Starship Hood (NCC-42296, which was an Excelsior Class Starship ) to transport to the surface because it was considered to dangerous and high risk.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Again, this Episode was written by Gene Roddenberry, and the Hood was also the ship that was transporting Retired Admiral Doctor McCoy (now at the age of 137) to the Enterprise D in the year 2364.</span><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-51809515857573885422013-01-29T22:24:00.000-08:002013-01-29T23:01:03.807-08:00The Guardian Stargate<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">It’s about the aftermath of a plague that kills off everyone over the age of twelve. Sound familiar?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Can anyone who’s ever watched the Season One Episode, “Miri” of </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "candara" , "sans-serif";">Star Trek: TOS </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">say “prequel"?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> I must admit, I really never even thought about that possibility until just recently. The events depicted in this book, which is aimed at young teenagers, could have easily happened before those seen in “Miri.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The book was written in the mid-seventies, long after “Miri” had 1<sup>st</sup> aired, but still when “Trek” was in reruns. The focus is not on how the plague itself began at all. No, in fact, very little backstory is given (unlike, “Miri”). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I never considered "Girl" a Sci-fi story, but Dystopian works are often classified generically as science fiction, because a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_universe" title="Fictional universe">fictional universe</a> has to be constructed, and a selectively told backstory of some past disaster is often introduced early in the book, because “the story” typically depicts events that take place "in the future."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This story, is mostly about how a society might evolve after a catastrophe, one in which the young are forced to form a society “from scratch”, by looting and building a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia" title="Militia">militia</a>, armed with guns, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_cocktails" title="Molotov cocktails">Molotov cocktails</a>, and primitive weapons. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">( In TOS's “Miri” we see a City that is in a complete state of decay and ruins.)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> According to an article written for teachers by <a href="http://contributor.yahoo.com/user/6831/jennifer_kemper.html">Jennifer Kemper</a> at Yahoo, it mostly deal’s with mankind's inherent characteristics and how different individuals will react to conflict ( or approach a chaotic situation) when authority is not present and highlights different viewpoints on the overall nature of man. I personally thought this is a “slice of life” story, as the “ending” drops off without any real resolution at all, and since a cure to “the plague” was Never addressed, nor a solution found, ALL the character’s introduced in this story, regardless of what they did or did not do, are all bound to have very short lives anyway. Right? Or do they?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">Could this story really have taken place on another world - a world Kirk and crew would discover some 200 years or so later? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nelson himself has stated that his intent in writing the novel was to translate the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivism_%28Ayn_Rand%29" title="Objectivism (Ayn Rand)">Objectivist philosophy</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand" title="Ayn Rand">Ayn Rand</a> ( a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-American" title="Russian-American">Russi<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>n-<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">A</span>meric<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>n</a> novelist, pl<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>ywright,<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>nd screenwriter, turned philosopher) into terms children could understand. Dear God - WHY? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i>Atl<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>s Shrugged</i>, published in 1957, w<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>s R<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>nd's <i>m<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>gnum opus. </i>The<i> </i>plot involves<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia" title="Dystopia">dystopi<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>n</a> United St<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>tes in which the most cre<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>tive industri<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>lists, scientists<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">, a</span>nd<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>rtists go on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">strike</a><span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>nd retre<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>t into the mount<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>ins and hide<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>w<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>y there, in order to illustr<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>te th<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>t<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> with</span>out the efforts of the r<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>tion<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>l<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>nd productive, the economy would coll<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>pse<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>nd society would f<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>ll<span id="dtx-highlighting-item"> a</span>p<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>rt. This advoc<span id="dtx-highlighting-item">a</span>tes the core of her philosophy’s and is the basis on which this book was based upon. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/archive/"> Mission Log: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast</a> - hosted each week by John Champion and Ken Ray Gun </i></span></b><span style="background-color: #666666;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "myriad set pro" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is a show where in it's sole purpose is to explore the Star Trek universe one episode at a time.</span><span style="color: white; font-family: "myriad set pro" , "lucida grande" , "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i></span></b></h2>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Episode Six: </i></span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> made me stop and really think about cloning Transporters . That's right. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I said cloning Transporters. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> By now I guess that you are thinking -"say what?"</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You see - in an early episode of Trek - Kirk and the rest of the entire crew of the Starship Enterprise, including Mr. Spock, in what has got to be one of the worst brain farts ever ( due to lack of money, poor script writing, and/ or props, and or a combination of all three - because you see Timmy, the models weren't finished being built yet) because they just simply forgot about all them there shuttle craft that should be parked </span><span style="font-size: large;">on the hunger deck, that could have been used at any time, to rescue a stranded "Away Party" from sub freezing temperatures and possible death on the surface of the planet below, in -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Star Trek: "<a href="http://www.missionlogpodcast.com/the-enemy-within/">The Enemy Within</a>" Your soul.</span></u></span></b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Do you remember the world's 1st ( ok, not for real, but fictional) matter <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation" title="Teleportation">Transporter</a> device? No? Well, I do. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was dubbed "The Disintegrator / Integrator" and was seen nearly a decade before the one seen in the Original Series Star Trek. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Trek, the <b>Transporter</b> (originally dubbed, "The Materializer",) was a <a href="http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Subspace" title="Subspace">subspace</a> device capable of almost instantaneously moving an objects or persons from one location to another, able to “dematerialize”, or convert said objects or persons to energy, then transmit ( or “ beam” ) that energy to a destination, and then reassemble and reconstitute (or Kirk's case, "Re-integrate") those objects/persons back into matter. My real problem with “The Transporter” as seen in Star Trek, besides that fact it’s just simply used as a plot device in this episode ( and God, I hate plot devices) is the way in which it operates.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Let me explain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">For me, this type of tech could only work if there was both a Transmitter and a Receiver teleport device on the other end, just like, or as with, any TV or radio system. On one end you have a transmitting device that beams that signal, and on the other end you have a receiver that captures that signal. With cell phone service, the phones on both ends are both transmitter and receivers, and the “transmitter” is a 3<sup>rd</sup> party network device that is utilized to send the signal both ways.</span><br />
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<span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">In order for this thing to work, there should have to be a transporter at both ends. TOS attempted to reinstall this idea (the way that it should be) back into the film series beginning with “The Motion Picture”. When Kirk needed to get to the ship, he beams up from Earth to a nearby Space Station, because the Enterprise Transporter’s are not yet operational. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When they later 1<sup>st</sup> test them, sure enough, death occurs. So Kirk couldn’t just beam on to the ship any where he wanted, he had to arrive in the transporter room or take a shuttle. In the original series, beaming to and from a transporter chamber was a necessity when beaming “ship to ship.” This was explained in the episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dove" title="Day of the Dove">Day of the Dove</a>". <span style="color: lime;">Spock and Scotty had said that doing a site-to-site transport on board the ship could be risky. They could "beam into a deck" or into an inanimate object and get stuck there. Is this the reason why we always saw the Crew materializing on a transporter pad when beaming ship to ship like at Space Station K7, in “The Trouble with Them There Little Tribbles”? But I guess that a planet is a big enough stationary target that they don’t need a receiving Transporter to beam up or down?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Anyway, since the laws of physics state that matter can not be created or destroyed, it simply changes forms, how then, is it possible, that the little old transporter can create not one, but two “copies” of a person, as the device was shown to do during this episode "The Enemy Within"? Would that not be creating double the amount of matter? That’s one hell of a cloning machine they have there! Did both copies have half as many atoms? Since your “DNA pattern” is stored in the ships computer, heck, if you die, shouldn't they just be able to stop and visit the Transporter Room and order up another copy of you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Something like this happened years later in the ST:TNG episode “Second Chances”, when attempting to transport Lt. Riker through an unstable atmosphere, the beam 'reflects' and split into two identical beams, creating an exact physical duplicate where he remained undiscovered on the planet's surface for eight years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Voyager" title="Star Trek: Voyager">Voyager</a> episode "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvix" title="Tuvix">Tuvix</a>", much like in the movie “The Fly”, another transporter accident combines both the physical and behavioral aspects of Lt. Tuvok, and Neelix, into a single being.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What about what happened to Scotty when he was brought back to "life" in TNG's "Relics."? He was stuck and survived in storage as a mere "Ghost in the Machine" in the cyberspace world that was known only by </span>it's<span style="font-size: large;"> label, "The Pattern Buffer" for 75 Years! OK. Yeah, right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">( This theme would later be addressed in other Sci-Fi movies and shows like "The X-Files", "Robocop", The </span>LawnMower<span style="font-size: large;"> Man, and "The Matrix".) The "other" guy that stepped into the transporter with Scotty simple beamed out of existence, because they were unable to retrieve his pattern out of the data storage unit intact. Damn. Hey, come to think of it, didn't something like this </span>happen<span style="font-size: large;"> in another early 80's movie called Tron?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My real problem is that the transporter doesn’t address the issue of the human soul. Hell, even if you don’t “believe” in a “soul life” and you believe that death is death, I don’t believe that a Transporter could never copy a “living being”, much less do what it does in this episode, when it splits a man’s subconscious self into two halves. Oh, ok, I’ve got to give credit to where credit is due. Yes, Shatner does an awesome job of making you believe that it can. But Captain James T. Kirk is not a flying Buzz Light-year Toy, ok. A device such as this should not be utilized to beam up the living, but should only work for and on "things", like boxes that are clearly marked "Classified: Do not open" (which also just so happens to be big enough to allow a crazy inmate to stow away in and thereby go both undetected and then unnoticed by the ship's red-shirted Transporter operator only a couple of episodes later.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Here we are now to believe, due to some “malfunction” caused by “ore dust”, that now this thing can reprogram the way the human mind works when it reassembles someone. Could you imagine the endless possibilities that could occur if you could reprogram the mind of your clone, or clones? </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">The movie, <b><i>Multiplicity, </i></b>comes to mind. In that film, they clone-a-clone, and his personality defects issues are because of that. Those defects more pronounced when this is done, demonstrating how a copy of a copy may not be as 'sharp' as the original. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">If either the Enterprise, or any other Starship Transporter's had those type of capabilities, then I believe this device would have been used to “cure” the criminally insane, like those found at both the Penal Colony on Tantalus V ( as seen in the Episode “Dagger of the Mind”) and on Elba II, an asylum for the insane, as seen in the Season 3 episode “Whom Gods Destroy” (in which Dr. Adam’s rode is the same as the one wore by the staff at Tantalus V). </span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">Why then would Starfleet or any "prison" even need drugs or a “ Neutral Neutralizer” when you could use the one of those “Mind-Altering Cloning Transporters”?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: magenta;">Now that would be a real house of horrors indeed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> <b><span style="color: yellow;">My personal take on </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Star Trek: </span></b></span><b style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Original Series</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now, according to both Phil Farrand,</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> author of "The Nitpicker's Guides" </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and my very own deductive reasoning skills, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have come to accept </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">that every </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">1000 Stardate Units is = One "Star Year". </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each Stardate is an 8-hour work shift </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and three shifts </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">are equal</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> to a 24-hour "day". </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Despite all the crap </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">ever written about this subject - </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"> I promise If you will stick with me on this - </span><span style="font-size: large;">THIS<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Works. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span> <span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;">Yes, I know there are certain episodes where the</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Stardate given during Kirk's voiced over Log entry does NOT</span><span style="color: orange;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">allow for enough passage of time for those </span></span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">events during some of the episodes to occur.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">However, I think this is due to a post-production </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">problems that occurred in the timing of the ADR,</span><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"> ( and IF you allow for that - it all works) </span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Point of Interest:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Stardates had yet to be introduced when </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Captain Pike had command.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>After further research and study, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I believe that one must not look at the episodes </span><span style="font-size: large;">in production order, and or by broadcast order, </span><span style="font-size: large;">but rather by the "Stardate order" </span><span style="font-size: large;">in order to </span><span style="font-size: large;">get the correct intended order of the episodes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> This is how it Should work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Episodes 1-6, 10, and 14, take place </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> during the 1st </span><span style="font-size: large;">year of the 5-year mission. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Episode 17, "The Squire of Gothos" ,</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"> Stardate 2124.5 </span><span style="font-size: large;">"happens" at the beginning of </span><span style="font-size: large;">the second year</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the mission, </span><span style="font-size: large;">while episodes 7-9, 13, and 16, </span><span style="font-size: large;">( by air date order) take place during end of year two, </span><span style="font-size: large;">based on the </span><span class="il" style="font-size: large;">Star Date's given of 2712 - 2947. </span><span style="font-size: large;">The rest of "Season One" takes place </span><span style="font-size: large;">at the start of Year Three </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the mission </span><span style="font-size: large;">and covers through Star Date: 3417.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cfe2f3; font-size: large;">I'll give you one example:</span><br />
<span style="color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'd like to point out that the Stardate given </span><span style="font-size: large;">for the Season One Episode</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "The Menagerie Parts One & Two" is 3012.4, </span><span style="font-size: large;">which would put those events at the very start of</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the crew just beginning their 3rd Year together, </span><span style="font-size: large;">which means this episode takes place after the events </span><span style="font-size: large;">seen</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cfe2f3;"> in</span> "</span><span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Galileo_Seven" title="The Galileo Seven">The Galileo Seven</a>" and </span><span style="font-size: large;">"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Martial_%28Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series%29" title="Court Martial (Star Trek: The Original Series)">Court Martial</a>" </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;">That would be about right based on the fact that </span><span style="font-size: large;">Kirk</span><span style="font-size: large;"> stated</span><span style="font-size: large;"> he took over Command of the Enterprise </span><span style="font-size: large;">from </span><span style="font-size: large;">Capt. Pike & </span><span style="font-size: large;">Spock states he served with Pike </span><span style="font-size: large;">for </span><span style="font-size: large;">"Eleven years, four months, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and five days". </span><span style="font-size: large;">Later during his hearing Spock states that the events </span><span style="font-size: large;">from "The Cage" took place "thirteen years ago." </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">So, that begs the question-</span><br />
<span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">Did Pike command not One, </span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">but rather Two - Five-year missions with a year in </span><span style="font-size: large;">between them </span><span style="font-size: large;">in order for the ship to get a refit? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Could Spock have been under Pike's command before </span><span style="font-size: large;">the Enterprise 1st launched for it's 1st 5-year</span><span style="font-size: large;"> mission under Pike? </span><span style="font-size: large;"> Sure, why not?</span></span><br />
<span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">We know that Pike took over the Enterprise from </span><span style="font-size: large;">Capt. Robert April ( the 1st to Captain the Enterprise) </span><span style="font-size: large;">after April's Original Shakedown cruise and the ship's </span><span style="font-size: large;">very 1st 5 year mission under him that followed. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This all works. Thirteen years - less eleven equals </span><span style="font-size: large;">Two full years that Kirk has been in Command! </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: #f1c232;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the reason why Kirk and McCoy both know </span><span style="font-size: large;">and trust Spock so well at this point in the show.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Even though the Menagerie Parts One and Two are </span><span style="font-size: large;">only the 11th & 12th episodes to air, </span><span style="font-size: large;">(the 16th produced) what is more important here</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is the Stardates. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gene knew that there would be production delays </span><span style="font-size: large;">& that episodes would be aired out of production order.</span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> When there were problems, like with say, </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #eeeeee;"><span style="font-size: large;"> "Assignment: Earth", "they" would simply not assign</span><span style="font-size: large;"> a Stardate to that episode. That way the episode could </span><span style="font-size: large;">"fit in" anywhere, since all of the episodes are</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "stand-alone" episodes that don't really depend on</span><span style="font-size: large;"> one another.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If "Where No Man" takes place in 2265, </span><span style="font-size: large;">( Stardate: 1312) then Menagerie takes place </span><span style="font-size: large;">at the beginning of 2267. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Subtracting thirteen years </span><span style="font-size: large;">would place "The Cage" near the very end of 2254. </span><span style="font-size: large;">By then the Enterprise herself was almost ten years old, </span><span style="font-size: large;">since she was built in 2245.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Season 2 </span><span style="font-size: large;">actually begins during Year Three, </span><span style="font-size: large;">and contains </span><span style="font-size: large;">some nine episodes from Year </span><span style="font-size: large;">Four of the 5-Year Mission, </span><span style="font-size: large;">starting with "Bread and Circuses" </span><span style="font-size: large;">(Star Date 4040.7) </span><span style="font-size: large;">and should end with </span><span style="font-size: large;">"Return to Tomorrow" </span><span style="font-size: large;">( </span><span class="il" style="font-size: large;">Stardate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> 4768 - the highest Stardate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> number</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in Season Two.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finally, that brings us to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Season Three,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"> which really </span><span style="font-size: large;">takes place through the end of the last Year </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the mission, </span><span style="font-size: large;">ending with </span><span class="il" style="font-size: large;">Stardate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of 5943.7</span></span><br />
<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: large;"> w/ "All our Yesterdays", </span><span style="font-size: large;">the "Zarabeth" episode. </span><span style="font-size: large;">(as the events seen in "Turnabout" </span><span style="font-size: large;">"happened"</span><span style="font-size: large;"> before this episode.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;"> It's my Personal Belief that it was THOSE EVENTS </span><span style="font-size: large;">that happened to Spock in THAT Episode that served </span><span style="font-size: large;">as the Main reason as to WHY he went to </span><span style="font-size: large;">Vulcan to purge all of those emotions when Enterprise </span><span style="font-size: large;">was being refitted through </span><span class="il" style="font-size: large;">Stardate</span><span style="font-size: large;"> 7411 at the beginning</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of "The Motion Picture".</span><br />
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Note: Trek's last Episode to be produce and that aired, "Turnabout" had a Star Date of 5928.5.<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-size: large;"> This helps to explain how we can have an episode </span><span style="font-size: large;">like </span><span style="font-size: large;">"Elaan of Troyius" (Stardate 4372.5) between two </span><span style="font-size: large;">episodes like "Wink of an Eye" (Stardate 5710) and</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "Whom Gods Destroy" (Stardate 5718.3) </span><span style="font-size: large;">It means </span><span style="font-size: large;">those events in "Elann" took place during </span><span style="font-size: large;">the 4th Year </span><span style="font-size: large;">of the Mission, </span><span style="font-size: large;">while the events in the other two episodes </span><span style="font-size: large;">"happened" during the 5th Year of the ship's mission.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: lime; font-size: large;">And that is my take. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: large;">The 4th and 5th year are not really "missing". </span><span style="font-size: large;">The stories that were </span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><u>NOT</u></b><span style="font-size: large;"> told really would </span><span style="font-size: large;">have taken place during a large chunk of Year Two </span><span style="font-size: large;">(S</span><span class="il" style="font-size: large;">tardates</span><span style="font-size: large;"> 2130-2700) and some during Year Three </span><span style="font-size: large;">( Stardates 3800-4400).</span><br />
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Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-50080048572824530652012-07-09T18:51:00.000-07:002012-07-09T18:51:34.295-07:00Interview with Ben Burtt, Super 8 Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor<a href="http://cgterminal.com/2011/11/16/interview-with-ben-burtt-super-8-sound-designer-and-supervising-sound-editor/#.T_uFVuVMQnU.blogger">Interview with Ben Burtt, Super 8 Sound Designer and Supervising Sound Editor</a><br />
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Ben Burtt is a Legend and two-time Oscar Winner and was the Head Sound Designer for 1st "Sprocket Systems" and then "Skywalker Sound" for Lucasfilm Ltd, having produced the sound effects for both the entire Star Wars and Indiana Jones film series. He would later join Pixar to produce "WALL-E." His latest work was on the film "Red Tails." Here he is discussing his joy of the Blu-Ray version of the "Super 8" Dolby HD 7.1 soundtrack. As many of you know, I loved this film. The fact that Ben was the main sound designer was the cherry on top. I just love this type of "ear-candy". Thanks Ben.Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-71642944337628574332012-07-07T14:27:00.001-07:002012-07-07T14:27:24.024-07:00Retail Giant hhgreg's little known dirty tricks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After Rex TV closed it's door's in 2009, I went to work for a Grand Opening event with hhgreg. Turns out, that event was the only reason why I was hired, because "they" way over hired like 22 of us sales guys (mostly leftovers from Circuit City, which had also just closed in the not so distant past) when "they" really only need 6 people to do the job, and fired 16 of us in a one day "mass lay-off event" because we had not made the company enough money in our little 60 day stay in an underdeveloped new mall that very few people even knew existed in the middle of an economic recession. This company taught me a that there is no such thing as company commitment in Corp. America today. Never mind that my former boss and I were driving 48miles each way though one of the worst construction zones in the entire US at the time, and we were never late, nor missed even a shift, not once, and they still let us go.<br />
Why? Well, because, you see, "they" are all about how much profit margin ANY product has in it, and "they" pressure their sales staff to "force" certain products that have the highest mark-up, on to a customer. I shit you not. Let me just state right now, in all my years of selling with both Rex and now with Sears, I've never been forced to do this. It was enough to make me sick. This ought to be illegal.<br />
As a matter of fact, at Sears, we discuss getting the right product for the customer's needs, weather it be the right size or type of TV, or if the product needs to fit within certain restrictions. I've never had a question of ethics while being with the company. But at hhgreg, no, that's not how it worked.<br />
Let me fill you in on the real 411. Before we would open, we would have the morning meeting, in which one of the floor manages would walk through the Tv dept with the day's sales staff and discuss the "profit margin" on each TV. Now the reason why he did this is because the sales guys don't really make much of a sales commission on the selling dollar amount of the product. No, see hhgreg only really pays their salesmen on the "profit margin" on a piece. (hence, the incentive to shove a customer into a certain product, and spend more time talking about how much better the more expensive Tv really is.) So let's take, for example, if the salesman gets 1% of the volume, and 5% of the "profit margin" on ANY TV. (Not always true, but close enough for Government work.)<br />
TV A.) Plain 50in 1080p Panasonic Plasma w/ internet. A great TV. Nothing wrong with the set. Will meet a customers needs for the room Tv is going into. Retail price: $899.99 on Sale for $799. Cost is $719. ( If they are lucky )Mark-up $81 Comm: $8 bucks on the "volume", plus $3 bucks on the "profit" for a total of comm of $11.<br />
TV B) Samsung 55in LED, 3-D, Smart 1080p HDTV. Retail $3199.99 Now on sale for $2499.99. Save $700. There cost $1889. Mark-up $610 . Comm: $ 25 on the "Volume" and $ 30 on the "profit" for a total comm of $ 55. Plus, Samsung if offering a "Spiff" of $100. So here, the salesman stands to make $155 dollars. Now, there is nothing wrong in that (the way they pay their people) in and of or by itself.<br />
But when management instructs them to only sell this or that TV based solely on how much money both the company and the salesman stand to make over another product, how much time do you think you are going to get then to talk about those other products that don't do them so well, regard less if the other product is just as good or not? Now, to make matter even worse, they would then take it one step further, and this is really where this becomes a "consumer beware" issue.<br />
They would (and yes, I'm sad to say, I watched in horror, but said nothing) set all the TV's that had a nice mark-up in them to the "Vivid, or max" settings, and everything else was toned down to "standard" or worse. some of the "loss leader's" (Tv's they advertize at really stupid low prices in order to bring people in the door, are displayed on endcaps with only a DVD playing on them, instead of the Blu-ray HD signal the sets on the back wall are being sent. They even take the time to really make those top set's shine on. Does the average Joe or Mom and Pa know this or even have a clue? Are you kidding? I'm still shocked today by how many Senior citizens walk up to me in Sears and ask me, "Just what the differences are between Plasma, LCD, and LED?" Half the time I think to myself , "Where have you people been? Have you been hiding under a rock that long?"<br />
It's really shocking how under educated people STILL are when it comes to TV's. If these people go into an hhgreg, they don't stand a chance. No one coming in the door today knows what ARC (audio return channel) is or have even heard of it. 50% ( Yes, I said 50%,) of our senior population here in the United States have NO IDEA what BLU-RAY is.!!! I'd dare say 8 out of 10 don't know the difference between GUI and OSD or even how to change any of the setting in the TV's menu's. As a matter of fact, they are often afraid to adjust anything on the set, out of fear. Do they know any better? NO. <br />
More than likely they will just get confused or simply buy the TV that to them looks better to their eyes in the store because they have been so manipulated by just some of the unfair selling practices uses by this company. Are you starting to see the Big Picture? Do you think any of the "Salesmen" at hhgreg even know what a Laserdisc is, or anything at all about what TV set's are better with lower resolution analog signals? NO WAY. He just knows "sell this TV, add a matching Blu-ray player, & an expensive HDMI cable and stand or mount."<br />
That's all the company wants him to know. Let's not even talk about "delivery", "set-up" and or the "Extended Service Contracts." Oh, by the way, did you want to buy a bed to go with that TV?<br />
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<br />Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-453486268342564302012-07-05T19:06:00.000-07:002012-07-05T19:06:51.090-07:00analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org<a href="http://www.tapedeck.org/index.php#.T_G07ML2tA0.blogger">analog audio tape cassette nostalgia - tapedeck.org</a>Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-62041976121977542602012-06-25T18:58:00.000-07:002012-06-25T18:58:41.286-07:00Carlin best sums it all up.My uncle emailed me this quote from the late George Carlin. In the wake of the economic meltdown and $800 Billion dollar bailout that followed, I feel that these words have never sounded more true, and so I thought I'd take a moment to share his words .................<br />
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"Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the
idea that you have freedom of choice . . . you don’t. You have no
choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all
the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They’ve
long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state
houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and
they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of
the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying . . . lobbying, to
get what they want . . . Well, we know what they want. They want more
for themselves and less for everybody else, but I’ll tell you what they
don’t want . . . they don’t want a population of citizens capable of
critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people
capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that . . . that
doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They
don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and
think about how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw
them overboard 30 fuckin' years ago. They don’t want that. You know what
they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people
who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And
just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier
jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end
of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to
collect it, and now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They
want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give
it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something?
They’ll get it . . . they’ll get it all from you sooner or later cause
they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You
and I are not in The big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they
use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what
to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media
telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table
has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody
seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue
collar it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest
hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . .
continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck about
you. They don’t give a fuck about you . . . they don’t give a fuck about
you. They don’t care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and
nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners
count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully
ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up
their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the
truth. It’s called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to
believe in it . . .”Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8200094588339600508.post-15068756224958671142012-06-14T22:13:00.000-07:002012-06-14T22:13:55.892-07:00My responce to IL Magazine's feature story by Simon O'Hagan<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let me 1st say, that even though I'm
an American, one of my favorite publications is Britain's own
"WHAT-HIFI? Sound & Vision Magazine", because I'm so into this
A/V "hobby". I have over ten years of experience selling A/V gear,
and I really enjoyed this article, and just wanted to chime in here.
During the 1980's & 90's, no Stereo Rack System would ever be considered complete
if it didn't have a Turntable, double cassette deck and a CD (or later, a
5,6,25, or 100 disc) player, so I'm a fan of each format, with all their pro's
and con's. As far as cassette playing "second fiddle", while I'll
agree that the prerecorded material certainly was, for sure, and therefore took
a back seat to the LP and CD, for those of us who had higher end tape decks,
however, and bought the right blank cassettes (like the Maxell XLII-S, or Sony
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">better
than the vast majority of today's MP3 downloads and streaming services.
I, of course, grew up "on" and with records, and always enjoyed
listening to my parents collection of older 60's and 70's albums, ( still have
an Technics SL-7 turntable) as well as the thrill of going to the record store
( something my children, ages 12 and 16, will never know or experience, even
though they will more than likely look back on GameStop with the same
fondness) to buy that new album and get home after working at the local
drive-in movie theatre and taking that LP for a spin, and listening to those
big tower speakers sing away through out the night. (Both my Father's 1980 MCS
Series (Technics) speakers and Scott’s vintage <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Radio Shack Realistic Optimus T-120's come to
mind.) As far as The Brennan is concerned, Microsoft developed this thing
over 10 years ago that had most of those features, and you could just plug it
in with an Optical cable to the back of your surround receiver. It was called
an XBOX. "Party on Wayne." "Party on Garth."</span><span style="font-family: "Agency FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>Will Wright IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13610045409241300520noreply@blogger.com1