Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!esosun!rjb
From: rjb@esosun.UUCP (Randy Blackwood )
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: video disk
Message-ID: <139@esosun.UUCP>
Date: 15 Apr 88 15:41:10 GMT
References: <1481@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> <10230@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com>
Reply-To: rjb@esosun.UUCP (Randy Blackwood (guest))
Organization: SAIC, San Diego
Lines: 19
Keywords: video disk, worm
Summary: panasonic products

In article <1481@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> houghton@silver.UUCP writes:
>   Well, we have finally decided to take the advice of most you and 
>consider moving *upto* an Amiga. We have ran into only one problem.
>If we are going to shell out the bucks for a graphics station, I 
>want to use a video disk.  Pioneer has a model which can be driven
>under computer control, only I can't find a controller to drive it
>(only minor detail, I'm sure). Does anyone know if these controllers
>exist. (Or is it like the OS/2...Only in the minds of a lot of people.)

You may wish to consider the Panasonic (Matshusita) optical disc
products: TQ-2026F and TQ-2028F (monochrome).  Each can be controlled
through RS-232 and Panasonic claims to have software for them too.
Features: wired and wireless remote controls, still, frame-advance,
10x fast forward/backward, 0.004x slow forward/backward, features needed
for video production, 24,000 frames storage, random access, $?.  

This is not an endorsement - I'm simply copying from the sales lit.

Randy Blackwood