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It's dead! NEC aren't selling it any more.

Lawrence
missed the chance to get one...

In <1992Aug12.002957.24887@wri.com> perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) writes:

>Does anybody uses it?
>Any recomendations?suggestions?
>Thax.
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>Oleg Perelet
>perelet@wri.com


Hi,
in Germany it is called Mitsubishi E82 and comes with the GSE RAPID
timecode for the Control track on the SVHS (VHS) track.

I just think about buying it to do single frame grabbing for MPEG
encoding..

Any other ideas ?

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de


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In article <1992Aug12.002957.24887@wri.com>, perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) writes:
! Does anybody uses it?
! Any recomendations?suggestions?

I've heard rumors that it is dead, though I think this is only in the USA,
since our local video dealer has never heard this and says he's still 
selling them.

Even though, I don't recommend it.  The one we have is really flaky, not an
industrial piece of equipment for sure.  
1) writing time codes misses the first ten seconds of video - always.
2) on some tape, the drive motor konks out 1/2 hr before the end of the
tape.  Have not been able to adjust it for this.

Plus the command language to drive the things from a computer is really 
kludgy (IMHO).  Like they just threw on more and more commands until they
had filled up the ROM.

I'm looking at one of the Panasonic decks to replace it.

dominic
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In a previous article, perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) wrote:
>Does anybody uses it?
>Any recomendations?suggestions?
>Thax.
>--
>Oleg Perelet
>perelet@wri.com

I've used the PC-VCR quite a bit.  I thought it was a great VCR unto itself, 
and the computer interface worked well.  I didn't like the PC software much.  
The Mac SW was really just an interface, but if you worked at it, you could 
get it to do anything.  I wrote some controlling SW in MM Director, and got it 
to do just about everything.

Unfortunately, NEC was hoping to sell plenty more than they did, and have 
stopped selling it.  Last year's MacWorld had a huge display for the PC-VCR.  
Didn't see a one this year.

I think NEC just didn't know how to market the thing.  For most of the life of 
the VCR, they sold it only through their pro-video dealers (large projection 
screens, etc).  They didn't know the computer end of it.  Then they brought it 
into the computer channel through mfg reps, which wasn't too bad.  But they 
didn't give it much of a chance.

Bottom line - too bad its gone.  If I saw one at a good price, I'd buy one in 
a minute.  I think panasonic has a similar model, but its not frame accurate.  
Sony has a similar Hi-8 model, but I don't know much about it.

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In article <7IZ5HCU@zelator.in-berlin.de>, leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
> In <1992Aug12.002957.24887@wri.com> perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) writes:
>
>>Does anybody uses [the NEC PC-VCR]?
>
> in Germany it is called Mitsubishi E82 and comes with the GSE RAPID
> timecode for the Control track on the SVHS (VHS) track.
>
> I just think about buying it to do single frame grabbing for MPEG
> encoding..

Is this a stock-standard Mitsubishi E82? I'm just intrigued because there
should also be an E82 model available in NZ. I just thought it was Mitsubishi's
consumer S-VHS player, but if it has time code and computer control
capability, that makes it somewhat more interesting...

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00

In <1992Aug13.111221.10058@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:

>In article <7IZ5HCU@zelator.in-berlin.de>, leo@zelator.in-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann) writes:
>> In <1992Aug12.002957.24887@wri.com> perelet@avignon.wri.com (Oleg Perelet) writes:
>>
>>>Does anybody uses [the NEC PC-VCR]?
>>
>> in Germany it is called Mitsubishi E82 and comes with the GSE RAPID
>> timecode for the Control track on the SVHS (VHS) track.
>>
>> I just think about buying it to do single frame grabbing for MPEG
>> encoding..

>Is this a stock-standard Mitsubishi E82? I'm just intrigued because there
>should also be an E82 model available in NZ. I just thought it was Mitsubishi's
>consumer S-VHS player, but if it has time code and computer control
>capability, that makes it somewhat more interesting...

>Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
>Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
>University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
>Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+12:00

Hi,
well there was on older E82 model, but the new one comes directly with
this new RS232 inertface developed by GSE (Rapid Timecode).

Also the E82 was to be said to have one of the best SVHS picture
quality in the consumer field. It has about 4.8 Mhz at -10 dB
bandwith.

Hope this helps.

Best regards Stefan Hartmann.
email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de



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