pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) (12/17/85)
I just talked to a video store guy who seems to know what he is talking
about. The clear facts:
JVC holds the U.S. Patent on the VHS tape system. It expires in a few months;
when it does, a bunch of Korean and Taiwanese companies will start shipping
cheap VHS VCR's into the U.S. market. Some will be pretty good, some will be
junk.
What is JVC doing about this? They have been developing new technologies on
which they DO hold patent rights. Thus, VCR's with the latest fancy features
will not drop in price. (JVC licenses the technology to everyone else, like
NEC, Panasonic, etc). The latest features that most people want...
MTS Broadcast Stereo recording
HI-FI stereo recording (much better quality)
HQ video playback (electronic image enhancement of 20% on ANY tape)
'White chip' recording enhancer (10% image enhance when recording)
VCR's with this stuff will still cost many hundreds of bucks.
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> when it does, a bunch of Korean and Taiwanese companies will start shipping > > What is JVC doing about this? They have been developing new technologies on > which they DO hold patent rights. Thus, VCR's with the latest fancy features > will not drop in price. (JVC licenses the technology to everyone else, like > NEC, Panasonic, etc). The latest features that most people want... > > MTS Broadcast Stereo recording > HI-FI stereo recording (much better quality) > HQ video playback (electronic image enhancement of 20% on ANY tape) > 'White chip' recording enhancer (10% image enhance when recording) > What most people want is not more electronic doctoring of video but rather the full video bandwidth that God gives them through any coaxial cable or antenna. I hope that JVC loses their royal stinking butt on cheapo Korean and Taiwanese VCR's. Then, perhaps those consumer-bent morons can use all that VLSI and sub-micron hot pressed ferrite head technology to do something really important: record the flippin 4.08 mHz of luminance that any TV station can broadcast. This is the best possible thing that could happen to consumer video. But NOOOOO, you guys want to record synthesized stereo sound (just because you buy an Orban or Modulation Sciences stereo generator and plop it into the aural transmitter does not mean you are transmitting full stereo...most stations are transmitting simulated crap...), you want remote controls which can record "Ghostbusters" showing on January 9, 2008 and run Unix 4.2bsd at the same time, and ten thousand other features. WHAT ABOUT VIDEO QUALITY????? ARE YOU PEOPLE BLIND????? Get thee to a television station and ask to see the master monitor connected to the output of the transmitter and/or demodulator. While I'm at it (semi-annual flamage) when are those stupid video fishwrappers going to learn how to use a vectorscope and waveform monitor? They think they are oh-so-cool because they conned their publisher into spending some G-notes at the Tektronix store. In the real world of NTSC video, your ass would get bounced into the street for radating a signal with big fuzzy chrominance loci and 20% chroma errors, or 50% differential phase and gain. Sheeze... What really burns me is that people perceive AM is being so inferior to FM, yet they tolerate almost twice as much deterioration to watch taped reruns of Benson. You wouldn't record your CD's on a cassette player with 3.5 kHz bandwidth, so why watch TV with a patently inferior technology? HDTV hell! Let's see if we can extract the 80% of performance presently unused in NTSC. Keeping NTSC the best television system in the world... David Anthony DataSpan, Inc