Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/04/90)
Really-From: tas@inmet.inmet.com To all followers of kate, I would like to relate to you an unfortunate experience I had on my kateness quest during a recent trip to London. While browsing through the local record shops, I happened upon a CD of two interviews with Ms. Bush and a videotape which I purchased and brought back to the states with me. Well, the video was completely scrambled by Gatway's new security system which was not too upsetting since the tape is readily available in New York (and elsewhere), however, I was astonished to find that the interview recorded on the CD was transcribed to disc at too fast a speed. The first interview sounds rather like one with Alvin the Chipmunk than with adorable Kate. At least the second interview (which I had on a picturedisc record) was transcribed at the right speed! God speed, and kateness forever (and hi Bernie!).
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/06/90)
Really-From: tas@inmet.inmet.com Posted for a friend: To all followers of kate, I would like to relate to you an unfortunate experience I had on my kateness quest during a recent trip to London. While browsing through the local record shops, I happened upon a CD of two interviews with Ms. Bush and a videotape which I purchased and brought back to the states with me. Well, the video was completely scrambled by Gatway's new security system which was not too upsetting since the tape is readily available in New York (and elsewhere), however, I was astonished to find that the interview recorded on the CD was transcribed to disc at too fast a speed. The first interview sounds rather like one with Alvin the Chipmunk than with adorable Kate. At least the second interview (which I had on a picturedisc record) was transcribed at the right speed! God speed, and kateness forever (and hi Bernie!). - Dave Leason
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/07/90)
Really-From: jost@wilbur.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) Are you sure it was a security system that scrambled your video? The UK uses a different broadcast format, and you cannot use their tapes here and vice versa. It is possible to get them converted, but it is expensive and a nuisance. Is it possible the CD was defective? I'd try writing to the label or manufacturer to see...if you bought it at one of the big west end record shops (HMV, Virgin, Tower), you could probably send it back. PJ
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/07/90)
Really-From: vecvax!ken@Sun.COM (Ken Stuart) Your videotape purchased in London looks scrambled because the UK uses a different video format than the US. Theirs is called PAL, ours is called NTSC. Look in the phone book under Video for firms that do conversions (or get an Indian newspaper at an Indian grocery and look for ads for conversions). The above does not contradict the fact that the airport security machines can ruin magnetic tapes as well as film (no matter what propaganda they tell you). In fact, sometimes just the conveyer belt motors can affect magnetic tapes! Ken Stuart PS E-mail to ....sun!rtech!vecvax!ken (sometimes using "reply" doesn't work!).
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/07/90)
Really-From: rhend@caen.engin.umich.edu (Robert Henderson) Um, not that I want to be too critical here, but when you say that the security systems scrambled the video-tape that you bought in London, did you take into account the difference between PAL (the video encoding system used in the UK) and NTSC (the one used in the US) ? The physical tapes look identical, but the data on them is written in completely different formats, which would probably make it look "scrambled" if you played a PAL tape on an NTSC machine. Guys, don't do stupid things like this. Never ever ever buy a video tape in a foreign country, except for Canada, Mexico, and Japan, unless you have one of those ridiculously expensive VCRs that play in multiple formats. Can't help you with the CD problem, though. Not my specialty. This public service message brought to you by...
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (08/07/90)
Really-From: Andreas Bjorklind <abj@IDA.LiU.SE> >>>>> On 6 Aug 90 17:47:05 GMT, Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU said: Patrick> Really-From: jost@wilbur.coyote.trw.com (Patrick Jost) Patrick> Is it possible the CD was defective? I'd try writing to the label Patrick> or manufacturer to see...if you bought it at one of the big west end Patrick> record shops (HMV, Virgin, Tower), you could probably send it back. Yes. I had the traumatic experience of an audio-less copy of The Hair of the Hound video, which I bought at Tower Records, Piccadilly Circus. I just sent the video to their mail order dept., and got a new copy back (and of course a letter explaining how sorry they were). So sent those CDs back! /andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |K Mr. Andreas BjorKlind, DeparTmenT of KompuTer and KaTeology B | |A Science, KaTeLAB, LinKoping UniversiTy, S-581 83 LinKoping, Sweden.U | |T Tel. +46 13 28 19 69, InTerneT: abj@ida.liu.se, S | |E UUCP: sunic!liuida!abj, BiTneT: abj@seliuida H | -------------------------------------------------------------------------