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From: jackm@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: video recording
Message-ID: <1452@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 2 Mar 88 15:53:29 GMT
References: <5420@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: jackm@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Jack Morrison)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <5420@ames.arpa> hultquis@pioneer.UUCP (Jeff P.M. Hultquist) writes:
>	A while back I asked for info on "cheap" single
>frame video recording.  One netter directed me to the
>...
>look for the magic words "SMPTE time code."  A Sony
>BVU-950 (a "typical" SMPTE deck) weighs in at about
>fifteen thousand dollars.  Has anyone heard of SMPTE
>decks for less than this?

We've discussed this in rec.video now and then. A hopeful alternative is
to use a consumer VCR with flying erase heads and "interval mode", which
records about 8 frames at a shot; then play this back at high speed on
a digital deck to make working copies. I'm still waiting for news on an
S-VHS VCR with flying erase and 4x digital playback...

Eventually maybe RAMs will be cheap enough that a no-moving-parts digital
recorder will be able to handle several seconds of video with random
access, and we'll all be in fat city. Even now, you can buy (ex)AT&T's
VISTA graphics board and get 16 frames of (about) 256x256x8 images and
flip between them, for around $6K or so.

.... or win the lottery and by a digital video disk recorder ...