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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: How much can be put on a videodisc
Message-ID: <11050001@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 90 03:07:18 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard/FSY Ft.Collins,CO,USA
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re: > The original poster (Rick?)  says there's a rumor of CLV units with
    > frame grabbers--this implies that CLV units don't currently have them.
    > Is this referring to "low-end players"?  Just how "high-end" does a
    > player have to be before having a frame-grabber (which is actually, as
    > I tried to explain in an earlier posting, a function which DISABLES
    > video pass-through--surely not that difficult to implement)?  I have
    > only worked with the 8000s, and am not really familiar with the
    > functions of 4200s, 6000s, and so on...

The LD-V8000 may be the only player with true frame store.  The lower-end
Pioneer industrial players don't have it (although the '6000 may have field
store).  The '4200 has neither.

No consumer players, including the $3500 Pioneer LD-S2, have frame store.
Most priced above $700 have field store.

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