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From: baer@qiclab.uucp (Ken Baer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Recording Laser Disk Deck?
Summary: Panasonic OMDR
Message-ID: <1990Aug27.173018.13726@qiclab.uucp>
Date: 27 Aug 90 17:30:18 GMT
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In article <14704@venera.isi.edu> schur@venera.isi.edu (Sean Schur) writes:
>I seem to recall discussion here not too long ago about a laser disk
>deck that records I'm not talking about the Abekas which is a hard drive).
>I also saw one being used by the Showmaker people at the World of Amiga
>show. I swear in both cases the deck was a Pioneer. 

That was a Panasonic Optical Memory Disc Recorder.  It's an 8" laserdisc
recorder that Panasonic made a few years ago (2022TC).  The record a little
over 15,000 frames at about 3/4" video quality.  I've been working with
one for several months, and they're great.  There's a guy named
Joel Ratmansky, who has several uses units that he's refurbishing.
He is selling them bundled with software (Animation:Editor for single
frame recording ANIMs, and OMDR_Control for controlling the unit from
the Amiga either directly or through AREXX) for $5,678.  If you're interested
in single framing to optical disc (video, not data), this is your
least expensive option.  The newer units have sound recording abilities,
and some are LaserVision compatable, but they run closer to $20,000.  For
more info on the OMDR, contact:
Joel Ratmansky (Pixel Planet)
814 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA  19130
(215)836-4552

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