Wouldn't it be great to have an MD player like that?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Mike Lastucka
Sent: 18 June 2001 14:56
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Subject: Re: MD: MD and Cassette Walkmans.
>When was the last time someone o
Luis Dodero wrote:
> Actually I don't think that's quite true all the time...doesn't DVD have
> macrovision that doesn't let you record to VCR? I remember trying to do the
> VCR thing in college and try to watch a DVD through a VCR to a tv with only
> coax inputs but it wouldn't work. It did, ho
< all she needed was to plug her DVD
player into her video recorder. When she pressed play on the DVD player
with the recorder set to line in, the output would go through the VCRs RF
output.
<
Actually I don't think that's quite true all the time...doesn't DVD have
macrovision that doesn't let
[...]
> But you are starting to see less and less phono inputs on these units
(there
> is none on the MD-C2).
[...]
I'm not sure that this is a difference between MD-C2 and MD-C2H, but mine
has inputs, I have my JE640 hooked up to it, and I use that more than the 3
MD changer on the stereo anywa
>All I can tell you is that up until a few weeks ago I had a set up like
>that
>myself in my bedroom and it worked perfectly. It would not work if I tried
>to
>make a tape of the DVD, but it played through the TV just fine.
How old is your VCR? I had an ancient one that I could dub tapes wit
>Except I believe Macrovision should kick in and mess the picture up
>(light and dark fades). Or is this only present on composite video
>inputs?
It works in both I think. Otherwise what would be the use. Do VCRs even
come with composite inputs? SVHS maybe. Everyone else's uses the standar
>When was the last time someone on this m-list purchased
>a Cassette walkman ? Are they still very popular ?
>They are still on the shelves but I don't know anyone
>who has bought one in the last 3 years. Perhaps
>parents still buy them for their kids?
I haven't had a walkman in a long time,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:25:12 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I think the key phrase here is copy. The process does not affect the
signal if it
> is simply passed through.
My understanding of how Macrovision works, is that it is broadcast alongside
/ within the normal signal. And within V
>Never looked at a tape walkman again.
I'm working on that right now. I'm trying to replace all my cassette stuff
with MD, but cost is a slight [!!] factor. I'm also transferring all my
cassette content to MD and giving the tapes away.
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* Thus spake Churchill, Guy [2001-06-18]:
> When was the last time someone on this m-list purchased a Cassette
> walkman ? Are they still very popular ? They are still on the shelves
> but I don't know anyone who has bought one in the last 3 years.
I know quite a few. The thing is: they're ch
las wrote:
>
> That's what you would think and if you tried to copy the DVD to a VHS tape you
> couldn't. But I had no problem doing this up to a few weeks ago when I purchased
> a new Flat screen Toshiba TV/VCR combo with extra video inputs. I took the video
> out of the DVD player and plugge
Shawn Lin wrote:
This won't work with most VCR's due to Macrovision. This is analog copy
protection that hides in the blanking signal, most TV's are immune to
it. However, it causes a constant light/dark transition of the picture,
> geometry distortion, and color distortion through most VCR's
"Churchill, Guy" wrote:
> Except I believe Macrovision should kick in and mess the picture up
> (light and dark fades). Or is this only present on composite video
> inputs?
>
All I can tell you is that up until a few weeks ago I had a set up like that
myself in my bedroom and it worked perfect
las wrote:
>
> Shawn Lin wrote:
>
> > However, what I feel is much more archaic than cassette is VHS. I
> > absolutely can't stand VHS' size, bulk, and inconvenience. Not to
> > mention the physical complexity which leads to reliability problems (I
> > think most people have experienced a VCR
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From: las [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> I was in a Wal Mart one day and spoke to a woman who had just gotten a DVD
> player. Except she had no way to use it with her RF in only TV. She was
> told that she was going to have to buy an expensive converter. She had
left
Shawn Lin wrote:
>
>
> However, what I feel is much more archaic than cassette is VHS. I
> absolutely can't stand VHS' size, bulk, and inconvenience. Not to
> mention the physical complexity which leads to reliability problems (I
> think most people have experienced a VCR chewing up a tape at
"Churchill, Guy" wrote:
>
> When was the last time someone on this m-list purchased
> a Cassette walkman ? Are they still very popular ?
More popular than I'd like. I notice many minisystems and boomboxes
still have that archaic medium.
> They are still on the shelves but I don't know anyon
When was the last time someone on this m-list purchased
a Cassette walkman ? Are they still very popular ?
They are still on the shelves but I don't know anyone
who has bought one in the last 3 years. Perhaps
parents still buy them for their kids?
I bought one in 1990 (the smallest Panasonic
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