Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: Raiders on disk Message-ID: <1290@orca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 15:46:10 EST Article-I.D.: orca.1290 Posted: Tue Jan 8 15:46:10 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Jan-85 22:36:30 EST References: <599@homxa.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 39 Nomenclature: CAV = "Constant Angular Velocity" = "Standard play" = one-half hour per side of a laserdisk. CLV = "Constant Linear Velocity" = "Extended play" = one hour per side of a laserdisk, unless it includes digital sound in which case there's about fifty minutes per side. "I was in a local video store recently and noticed that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was available on laser disk. To my astonishment it was not encoded in the usual compressed format (to pack it on a single disk). It comes on a 2 disk set and permits all those wonderful effects like freeze frame, forward and reverse scan, searching, etc. "The price is a little steep (@$60) but I think its worth it. Most of the movies on laser disk are of the compressed variety which takes away most of the special features of the laser disk. I only wish some of the Star Wars epics were available in this format." The CAV version of Raiders was a better transfer (cleaner, brighter, etc.) than the CLV version. It was one of the best-selling laserdisks of all time. As a result, the video powers that be are seriously considering reissuing the first two Star Wars films in CAV. If you're into special effects and haven't yet bought these, you might want to wait. Or you can buy the CLV version, copy it to tape, and use special effects there. Alas, CAV will become even less available when digital audio begins to appear, as on the third Star Trek movie. You can't put digital audio on a CAV disk. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP] (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]