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Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 6:57 pm
by AriX
tin wrote:Just doing some more research on this, and a thought occurred to me on the point above. Perhaps 2x laserdisc players would be too expensive (although I think still an option for the big cablecos), but the most jarring aspect of Sneak is the audio stopping suddenly while the LD goes off and retrieves a background. e.g.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MAZnl4gWnk - at 2m08 there's the adults only bumper,when the guy refers to "entertainment like this" (this? what I can only see a big logo) then a wait and an 8 second silence while the LD gets the new backdrop. If a serial-addressable CD could play the background music for the lot while the LD played the announcements and fetched the backgrounds, it would sound a lot more fluid, IMHO.
If we get real sneak up and running, it might be worth a try to engineer that
That does sound like a good solution!
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 7:55 pm
by tin
Just got beat to a CD player with rs232 on eBay! Gutted!!
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Fri Apr 26, 2013 11:10 am
by tin
Well I missed a probably once in a lifetime opportunity to buy an already imported NTSC ld-v8000 on eBay, but just got a ld-v4300d that looks and functions pretty similar. I wonder if the only difference is the framebuffer, but hoping I will find it actually has one with any luck!
AriX did you ever have any success with geting a sneak prevue disk?
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 2:29 pm
by AriX
tin wrote:Well I missed a probably once in a lifetime opportunity to buy an already imported NTSC ld-v8000 on eBay, but just got a ld-v4300d that looks and functions pretty similar. I wonder if the only difference is the framebuffer, but hoping I will find it actually has one with any luck!
AriX did you ever have any success with geting a sneak prevue disk?
Nope! My buddy who thought he had it actually didn't.
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 5:21 pm
by tin
Argh! Gutted! Quite amazing there must have been hundreds of these disks and we've not even managed to turn up one! My post on amibay did nothing either. Have to go and have a think
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:11 pm
by AriX
tin wrote:Argh! Gutted! Quite amazing there must have been hundreds of these disks and we've not even managed to turn up one! My post on amibay did nothing either. Have to go and have a think
Ahhh
We'll nab it eventually!
I just wish we had someone to search the dumpsters in Tulsa lol
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 5:40 pm
by tin
Anyone here buy this?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SNEAK-PREVUE-5- ... 0949358541 I put in an offer but it got declined
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:06 am
by AriX
Ahh, wonder who got it! That's one month away from one of the ones I have.
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 1:49 pm
by tin
Aye! I would have thought anyone nuts enough to be buying would be a regular on here
Re: Sneak Prevue Laserdisc!
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:25 pm
by AriX
tin wrote:Aye! I would have thought anyone nuts enough to be buying would be a regular on here
Haha I'd think so!
Man, hopefully I'll be able to get back here soon and upload all of the LaserDiscs I captured...