Posts by MJI

DS? No not a DS

A DS is futuristic, unique to look at, a car for someone who appreciates engineering.

This is a poshish hatch.

Where is the with hydro-pneumatic suspension?

Not a great episode

Jarringly bad science.

Either it is in orbit OR being kept up with anti gravity NOT both

I got the GLADOS one very quickly, could have kept that running.

I think this series is much better than the last, the last one was a bit poor. This series PC has found his Doctor.

OK here goes some more details

With the iron oxide video formats the writing speed is all. There has been many formats but only 2 lasted the first round of the war <---

N1500

N1700 (LP version of N1500)

VHS <---

Beta <---

CVC

V2000

For picture CVC was worst, but Vhs was next worse.

I never saw and compared a working VCR format to anythiung else but saw them at school.

V2000 did have good trick play but overal picture quality was between Beta and Vhs.

Beta HiFi in the UK did exist with the Sony SL-HF100UB and SL-HF950, also Sanyo had the VTC-M40 a great big everlasting hunk of VCR, mine has a newish motor and the penultimate set of heads in the country. Duplicators had the SL-HF100P.

Super Beta was very good, excellent colour rendition, copies of DVDs and broadcast Digital Terrestrial looked very good, also great for editing.

Editing how about a Beta final copy looks better than a Vhs edit master, extra generation and still looks better, well an edit master looked better than a Vhs tape straight from the camera. This was a direct comparison using a Sony F1 portable against a JVC or Panasonic VHS-C portable.

Super Beta vs Super VHS

I did the trial and it was interesting, all S-VHS recordings I have seen had washed out watercoloury colours, like a line drawing with broad brush colours. Super Beta colours were so much better than the slight drop in horizontal resolution was not noticed, so in general the Super Beta picture was better to watch than S-VHS.

Normal Vhs was around 240 line, Beta 260 line, I reckon Super Beta was getting near 300, S-VHS around 400, the unreleased in the UK ED-Beta was 500 line, only the digital formats such as DV could beat it,

Tape life, how about recordings made in 1985 still being pretty good, played back on the VCR which took them. 30 years is a pretty good life for a tape, and to be honest my SL-F1UB.

The Pro-X tapes though are perfect.

The loading mechanism is very siimple one loading ring with lots of pins on, very heavily influenced by U-Matic, pretty reliable and tended to just work.

Head drums all were 1500 rpm in the 50Hz world but diameters were.

62mm Vhs

65mm V2000

74.5mm Beta giving a 20% higher write speed.

Beta was best at the time, I have owned over the years, 8 I think, 2 scrapped, 2 sold, 1 spares, 3 still have.

Anyway

Best picture SL-HF950

Best sound SL-HF950, SL-HF100UB, VTC-M40

Best trick play SL-C9UB

Best for editing SL-HF950 followed by SL-C9UB

Best engineered SL-C9UB, SL-F1UB

Best portable (out of 4) SL-F1UB

Best 1/2" VCR ever sold in the UK SL-HF950

Still in use

What do you think I was using until Freeview PVRs took off.

Sanyos were pretty tough as well

A strange one

We should all know that the Wehrmacht were the military and not the Nazis, the men sent to the front to die.

So there is no embarrassment of being compared to a Nazi (as they were SS and the like), but when did you last see an Action Man type figure with a willy?

I want to buy a Bosch now

I WANT a vacuum cleaner which sucks, the power limiting bollocks mean that the newer ones take longer as they do not suck as well. now if I can still get a super sucker great.

THIS IS A PLUS DYSON.

AND YOU ARE CURRENTLY ON THE SH1T LIST OVER A WASHING MACHINE.