Xref: utzoo comp.ivideodisc:405 rec.video:14099 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!doc.ic.ac.uk!brwk From: brwk@doc.ic.ac.uk (Bevis King) Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc,rec.video Subject: Re: New Sony Multi-standard Player (industrial) Keywords: videodisc, sony, laservision Message-ID: <2191@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk> Date: 16 Aug 90 10:48:34 GMT References: <6142@bgsuvax.UUCP> <140627@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@doc.ic.ac.uk Reply-To: brwk@doc.ic.ac.uk (Bevis King) Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK Lines: 29 In article <140627@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM (Marc Schneider) writes: |> We just got in the new Sony industrial disc player, nice machine!. |> This thing will playback NTSC, & PAL/SECAM, handle 12" or 8" |> discs and has composite or SCART connector output. The audio is |> non-digital though (can't have everything). I believe the model you are talking about it the Sony LDP3600. While I think the general move towards multi-standard machines is good, I feel Sony are being rather "cheapskate" in not adding digital sound to the machine. This rules out the possibility of playing any of the current mainstream PAL disc releases, which are all digital sound ONLY. There is not enough room in the PAL waveform for both Digital and Analogue sound so it has to be either/or. This is made doubly stupid by the fact that only one of the four plants capable of manufacturing PAL discs is still prepared to promote the fact that they do analogue pressings. One of the plants that will only do digital PAL pressings is Sony's own plant in Japan. Introducing a dual standard IV player that will not do digital sound at this point is stupid. Regards, Bevis Bevis King, Systems Programmer | Email: brwk@doc.ic.ac.uk Dept of Computing, Imperial College | UUCP : brwk@icdoc.UUCP 180 Queens Gate, London, SW7 2BZ, UK. | Voice: +44 71 589 5111 x 5085 "Never argue with a computer" ... Avon (Blake's 7)