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I'm looking for Japanese animation on LaserDisc. This can be Japanese domestic releases or U.S. licensed releases (even Hong Kong, but no PAL discs please), with or without English language subtitles, captions, dual-audio, &c. I cannot set a fixed price without knowing what the item is...

Hello all, I am looking for a good e-mail (POP3) client application to run under Windows XP. I have Outlook, but don't want to use it for this application, mostly because I'd like to have some kind of standard, portable, mailbox with message files, instead of the dreaded ".pst". What are...

My question has to do with the old NEC CRT projectors such as the GP-3000. I'm actually interested not in the superannuated projectors themselves, but in the "system interface", the VU-1210S or its equivalent the General Electric AVDU-3800. I want to use one of these to decode NTSC video to...

I know, another tiresome request for help! I am trying to find the title of something I saw on television maybe twenty years ago. As best I can recall, it was a pilot for a series which didn't get picked up, or possibly a miniseries. I thought it might have been called Vanguards, and that it...

Just what the title says. I want to connect a video processor with RGB HV outputs via five BNC connectors to a display with a standard "HD-15" VGA input connector. Since the signals are the same, I need some kind of adaptor cable. Any idea where to get one, preferably inexpensive?

I'm in the market for a new television set, and I thought I'd see if anyone here had any advice as to what my good choices are. In brief, I'm looking for a widescreen direct-view CRT with the following characteristics : CONSTRAINTS - no greater than 36" overall width - screen must be flat...

Greetings all: I have a sizable collection of LaserDiscs, and I would like to be able to record music and other audio from them conveniently. Unfortunately, at present I have only the integrated audio device on my motherboard, which only supports stereo analog input. As at least three-fourths...

Welcome to the eighth part of our ongoing discussion of Japanese Animation and related topics! While the main focus of our attention is usually anime currently available on DVD in the U.S., we are also more than happy to talk about out-of-print and overseas DVDs, current and former television...

The Japanese animated film Steamboy went into wide release in the U.S. yesterday, and I did not notice a thread about it, so I thought I would start one. This is the first feature produced by Ohtomo Katsuhiro since AKIRA, which recieved great critical acclaim and which many people think of when...

I'm not sure if this belongs here, or in TV Programming, or what; but if it's in the wrong place I'll thank the Moderators to move it. In any case, I was viewing a truly dreadful movie, Yum Yum Girls, 1978, and at the end there is a scene of the heroine's parents watching television. What they...

If you're anything like me, you've accumulated plenty of workarounds to connect the variety of esoteric connectors on your equipment with each other. So let's all admit to it! I'll start. PL-259 male, BNC female PL-259 male, RCA female 1/4 in phone male, 1/8 in phone female 1/8 in phone...

Sorting through a pile of half-inch open-reel videotapes I bought for a pittance along with a machine, I found something I need information about. This is a television special called Tut: The Boy King, narrated by Orson Welles, which appeared on NBC in conjunction with an exhibit of the...

I have purchassed one of these behemoths, with the intention of putting it back in working order [all parts are intact and it runs after a fashion]. I am just looking for anyone else out there with this or indeed any other 1/2 inch open reel videotape machine, to compare notes. Thanks!

Now that the advent of 12cm High Definition optical disc media is nearly upon us, and digital broadcasting is being implemented in Japan, I thought it was time to take a last look at the first HD video system for home use. I know there are a number of HTF members who have had some contact with...

My secondary player, an old CLD-V710 Karaoke machine built like a tank, makes an odd noise and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this, and if there is a solution. Whenever it is playing a disc, i.e. when the laser is lit and focussed and the disc is spinning, there is a...

Since it appears nobody else has done so, I thought I'd start this off with the capsule review I wrote for the Anime Discussion thread, based on my viewing the film last night at the Inwood theatre in Dallas. CAPSULE REVIEW The show was subtitled and presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 [or...

THE JEWELER'S SHOP, 1988, with Burt Lancaster, based on a play by Karol Wojtyla, a.k.a. His Holiness Pope John Paul II. As a young dramatist he was highly regarded in Polish theatrical circles, although of course he hasn't written for the stage in many years now. The only comment on it at IMDB...

Today I recieved, as part of my birthday present, a Compact Disc. Sony Classical Legacy SK 92727, "Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition" orchestrated by Ravel, performed by the New York Philharmonic Leonard Bernstein conducting, Masterworks Expanded Edition with "Night on Bald Mountain"...

Best Buy is selling what they term a "Celestion 200 Watt powered subwoofer" which is further described as S-20 for a hundred dollars. I need a powered subwoofer, and I do not have money to burn. Understand that I am not looking for ultra good bass reproduction, &c., I have cheap primary speakers...

I need a powered subwoofer for my audio setup, and I also need a piece of furniture for my components. I was seized with the bright idea of combining the two, but I think there may be snags. The biggest question I have is whether vibration from the sub could knock my equipment out of alignment...

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I am considering constructing a multichannel amplifier using thermionic valves for amplification. Unfortunately, to match the high output impedance of these devices to the low input impedance of the ordinary speaker, the use of a transformer usually indicated -- and as tube amps have grown rare...

Has this ever happened to anyone else? I bought a used Pioneer CLD-3070 LaserDisc unit ten days back from a local dealer, because it had digtal out and double side play, and I really like how this model's put together. I paid way more than I would except that it had a 90 day warranty, which...

Before anyone suggests it, I have not gotten confused by the vinyl "CD-4" quadrophonic records of the 1970s. Rather, I noticed some time back that the official Phillips Compact Disc-Digital Audio specification provided for a high-bit-rate quad mode in which four channels of 16/4401/75 EIAJ...

Greetings. I notice a lot of posts on the subject of video capture to PC, but that is not what I want to do. I just want to run composite or S-Video from my LaserDisc player through some kind of interface which will allow me to watch it on the screen, without having to store it on my hard...