Slime-o-vision (presumably) is causing all sorts of noise lines (rainbowed thin lines) all over the picture, especailyl around bright stuff.

This is not what Macrovision is supposed to do !!!

Are you sure your 300's erase head is ok ??

definitely dvd macrovision.hacked player is ideal solution. can someone out there tell us how to hack players? there was software in stores to allow your computer to decrypt dvd's.my sima scc unit eliminates the macro entirely but does add a barely percepitable noise component visible only on accurate monitors.got it from J+R for $109. the less expensive stabilizers i tried work only on vhs.

vhs macro makes a pulsating darkness and picture instability.the hallmark of dvd macro is lotts of irritating horizontal lines traversing the screen.color and darkness problems may also be there.

there are,as brenda was nice enough to point out,attractively priced hacked players available.but jesse seems quite satisfied with the model he already has.

Hi everyone

I have a serious recording problem with my Sony F1. It records flawless for 8 seconds, then goes black and mute for two seconds, only to come up with a perfect recording for another 8 seconds, black for 2... and on.What could cause this? It does it with every input, so I guess the tuner should be fine...

thanks for any input and a happy new year from Switzerland!Pascal

Send it to the Home. I'm sure my SL-2000 will be overjoyed to see its European counterpart... And the SL-2000 might convince it to convert over to NTSC :). LOL! Yes, I really like my player, but there's a ROM update for it that costs $25. Just seems that every time I have the money for it I forget or something good comes up on ebay.

got a toshiba 3107 .where do i get info on "rom update" for it?

john- try 1 drop of lite machine oil on each reel spindle.remove reels first.also non-slip{rubber rejuvenator} on belts an idlers.

oops.. I seem to have forgotten where the page was! Now I can't get one for mine either!

John, does the real-time counter stop moving when the playback goes blank ? If so, there may be something wrong with the ACE head, such as wear.

Joel, lemme ask ya somethin': You said you had a Minitek dvd player? Exactly what model? If it's one of the known one's, you can prolly upgrade the rom yourself if you have a CD burner.

Hey madness! if you think my VO-2650's are battleships, check THIS bad boy out!http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21166&item=1948108520

and here is his edit controller!http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21166&item=1948108484

These would SINK a battleship!

I think those were used as image recorders/ballast for those 'daisy cutter' bombs dropped over Afganistan. After the war they're recovered, the tapes are reviewed the VTRs dusted off and used for the next batch of ordinanace...

Well, Sean, that U-Matic does look as big as my Wollensak U-Matic player; one of the very first U-matics on the market back around l970. Weighs at least 50 lbs. Very little plastic used back then. You definately don't want to have one drop on small children or animals.

Later. Pepse.

Happy New Year to everybody! I am wishing so late because my dial-up connection from home is very slow and now I am in my office. To Jesse: you are a lucky man to have a separate dbx II unit. Back in 1980s its price here was about $ 300 (at average salary of $ 40 - 50). The amount of money is mentioned according to the black market price of US dollar. For information: I was living behind 'the iron curtain'- in the former USSR. Remember such films as 'Top Secret!' and 'Moscow on the Hudson'. The Soviet people were not allowed to have a foreign currency (at least if you was not in KGB or in high place in communist party). The official exchange rate was very low: $1=0.60 roubles. If you were going somewhere abroad (not the Soviet block countries) you were allowed to exchange 30 roubles and there were very strict custom regulations. OK I understand that it is not a Beta topic but I only want you to know where some of us have lived. And there is one non Beta question. I don't is someone of you watching TV series 'Millennium'. In one episode there was shown a car cassette stereo that had a tape time counter - not simply revolutions but tape running time: 00'23". I suppose that device was made for US market. Can anybody tell me the possible manufacturer and model number? I was making frame advance on VCR but I could not determine manufacturer and model number.

Franny,

Wouldn't dropping U-matics be against the Geneva convention? I think that only post-1988 VHS players are legal...

Yes, a Mincemeat-tek DVD-2110.

No, unfortunately I DO NOT have a DBX II NR unit..... the CommunitGE thrift store people wanted $19,19 for it and I unfortunately only had $1,25!!!!!!!!! damn the luck. Unless you'd like to donate $50 to the Home so I can buy the dynamix range xpander and the NR unit.. :)

!!!!!!!!!!!! I went to some stupidass ROM updating site, and wasted 3 CDs trying what they told me to do to update my Mincemeat-tek DVD player!!!!

eee! Well it turns out the DVD player balked because I was trying to be a cheapo and not waste a CD on a 2 meg file. I followed instructions to the letter and the player is updating itself right now. LOL! Now, to bring this page back on topic, I think that my SL-HF300 is going to be very busy when we rent moovies, LOL! Hmmm. Does anyone think that Sony dynamicron high grade series tapes are just beta shells with Betacam tape in them? Do you think that is what SOny does with their high end S-VHS tapes, etc? Just put pro tape in a consumer shell?

look franny http://pages.ebay.com/unavailable/DE_notice.html

_@_¼¼-erf...

well i will soon be on rocketsnail broadband cable modem...

Now the popup ads will load instantly...

Whatever happened to that SL-S600 Smokey Guy sent you? Get any use out of it?

Franny, if you're sick of popup ads, try this: http://www.panicware.com -- free & works like a charm!

Yes as a matter of fact it has been busy as well; it tapes the morning news so I can watch it when I get up.... The poor SL-2000mie has been getting no use at all. Neither has the betamie since i lost its calcium battery....

The Macintosh version isn't freiware...

I have Webwasher somewhere on file. When I switch I'll install it...

Has anyone anywhere EVER bought anything off a popup ad?

I have salvaged a Sony U-Matic Betamax machine from our office, which is relocating. It is Model #VO-2610. It is a very heavy piece of equipment. I'm not sure if it works. Is there any interest out there for this type of machine? Thanks to all.

Susan K meet Jesse Alonzo....

Jesse Alonzo meet Susan K..

I can see the Wards Home will have a new member...

Susan: you did a rather common thing and mistook Umatic for betamax... that is a U-matic machine and Jesse probably wants it, so its good you posted here, but I just didn't want you to go about making a bit of a faux pas.

need a battery charger/adaptor for a 6 year old hitachi hi-8 camcorder.anyone know where to go for a DISCOUNT price?

sean- i see those reel to reel sony vtrs in my local pre owned electronics store. how do they compare to the 900 quality and feature wise and what should they be selling for?

Reel to reel Sony VTRs are a touchy subject, since there were two formats, each using the same tape, along with color versions of each format... one had two color versions... MOdels that start with CV (i.e. CV-2000) are skip-field and produce a passable B&W picture... don't pay more than $50 unless it's a color one, but they are incredibly rare (with emphasis on INCREDIBLY... i.e. entire production run <100 units) The other format is EIAJ and it was something of the de facto standard before U-matic and Betamax beat it to death. The EIAJ models were color or B&W, color was new then so color ones will say "Color" or have an RGB logo on them. The B&W models are VERY common, those being the AV-3400, (Portable... most common)AV-3600 (basic deck, very common) AV-3650 B&W editor, most common deck... along with several version mounted in a chest wtih a TV set... The color models were AV-8400 (portable with auto-load) AV-8600 (Basic color recorder) and the AV-8650 "portable hernia" color editor. The color ones produce a picture on par with basic Beta but are limited by 1 hour of recording. in real life don't pay more than maybe $100 for an 8650 in known working order, expect to pay more on Ebay.

OH yeah... follow up: there were 1" and 2" models too... all the ones I talked about above are 1/2". Tell me model numbers... Feature wise they're OK, no stereo, no reverse picture search, the editors had basic slow-mo and so forth... the 900 rightly tops them all.

What kind of battery does that Hibachi H8-amie of yours take? Does it use universal batteries like the kind that go on Penisonique or the older Sony FX/TR series cameras?

http://www.batteriesplus.com/ and http://www.batterybank.com/ sell charger and A/C adapters as well as batteries...

Aren't Umatic decks limited to 60 minutes, also? I've never seen longer tapes. And how's the linear stereo on 'em? I'd imagine w/ a ¼"-wider tape would mean broader linear tracks for better dynamic range.

sean- thanks for info. olive- looks like you saved me at least $40.thanks,i owe you one. battery#vm-bp84.

I just wanted to thank Franny Wentzel for the link to the K-connector pin-guide. It will be a great help for me! I will get the Camera running as soon as I get home! Thanks !

LOL How well you guys know me... I am sad today because my Spamsung VR8608 Vehos is down. It needs a new hall-effect motor or whatever... It goes on top of the video drum... And I was angry yesterday because its bearing or something was messing up and sounded like a Apple hard disk that's been running continuously since 1990. I tried replacing it with one from a Sharp carcass I had around here...... Shorted it out and made the display show "E13F" or something weird like that. Now, it is normal, but tries to suck in the tape and powers off errattically.... It seems to be getting better though.

Madness: Umatic is generally limited to 60 minutes... I've seen up to 75 minute tapes but they are pretty rare. There was also half-speed Umatic but it failed completely because the quality was awful. The high linear tape speed and tape width of Umatic makes for great audio.

went to GEoodwil today and saw a Spamyo 4000 top loader.... And a HUGE ancient Hibachi Vehos top loader.. rivals the VO-1600!

_@_v - erf! Gonna curl up with a supply of Beta movie cuz it's like July in Minnesota out today. GE must be field-testing microwave ovens outside cuz it's snowing like crazy.

again...

and we're gonna get another one of these next week...

and nobody know how to shovel a sidewalk in this town either...

_@_v - You see cuz GE microwaves leave stuff colder...

WEll in the NE area they always predict TEOTWAWKI (Pronounced "Tia-wikki"...) so the supermarkets look like the locusts hit and we don't even HAVE sidewalks to shovel in North Billerica unless you count the one piece some guy put in when he had some macadam left over from his driveway and it's not even flat and is full of cracks...

Well what's Tiawikki, sean? I guess we must have a new GE lab in town too, because it's been unusually cold for this time of year; we are usually in shorts, LOL.

Hey Sean! - I can't believe that anyone would want any of those old VO-2600 SonyU-Matics. No parts or support any more from Sony - in fact Sony is about to pull theplug (finally) on type 5 U-Matics also. But I guess moving those old tankers aroundis lots cheaper than going to going to a health club!

TEOTWAWKI is "The End Of The World As We Know It" which is how New england news people predict every storm... Yeah, no support on U-matics but we stick beside out betas, most of which they have abandoned support for or simply list an RF-converter or something stupid on the DAPC...

I hate when the weather department keeps breaking in with news crawls during some show I'm trying to tape. We get it! It's gonna snow! You don't have to bug us while we're watching West Wing!

There ought to be an FCC or at least a network affiliation regulation that says unless you have to run for the hills or hide in the celler or get out the shotgun, don't interrupt regularly scheduled programs...

Speaking of useless TV crap... where the hell was the Emergency Broadcast System guy during 9/11. Why wasn't he on TV saying, "Y'all best get outta town, cuz this is the big one we've been getting you ready for the last 50 years! Git outta da building and RUUUUUUNN!!!!!!!!"

Olive,

I don't think they needed EBS (or it's replacement) on 9/11, since every TV and radio station on the planet was covering it. Not to mention that most of the TV and FM radio in NYC went down with the towers.. :(

Which goes to show what a waste that whole program has been for the last 50 years. Not to mention those doofy color alerts they have now...

"We're moving the alert from fuscia to teal... we hope to have it down to burghandy by tomorrow"

My cable service does that sometimes for no reason... BTW, anyone know why DVDs have region codes? was it sheerly a market-control thing or was there some underlyig reason o a dreamed-up excuse?

The 'logic' behind region codes was the keep a movie that was already released on DVD in the US from interfering with ticket sales to the same movie just being released to theatres in Europe or Asia or elsewhere overseas.

Gee, why not just have global releases than cause YEARS of frusration LONG after it wasn't an issue? and with video standards allready deviding the world, what does it matter?

Sean,

DVD players may pay attention to region codes, but they pay no attention whatsoever to video systems.

You can buy a DVD made for, say, the UK market, and, as long as your player is set to region 0, you can watch it on your NTSC television. This is because the player itself is what decides the video system, and not the DVD. I own several UK region DVD's that play just fine in my player, even though it says "Made for PAL colour system" right on them.

I have heard something about being able to _re-region-code a player to play a different disc if you want to... and that it involves no chaning to the player or something... I doubt region codes will be a problem with me (Since I own the other 4 large distrobution systems for movies (VHS, Beta, LD and CED)and so far have never bought foreign material but if it's easy enough when the warranty on my player runs out I'll have it changed just for convenience's sake but it's not a priority for me... whereas for you, Brenda, it may be a necessity!

you're lucky.... where do you get all the capital LOL to have such a well stocked vidisuite? you've got u-matiques crawling everywhere, as I only have one friendly VP-5000 :(

Well i guess I cant complain, I have everything except CED and real-to-reel vidicorders. Found two of the ESX-HiFi tapes, which have this quote, LOL: "ESX-HiFi is perfectly suited for recording on all VCR's including Super Beta, promising superb picture and sound reproduction for a dynamic performance." Too bad tapes nowadays don't sound as good. My columbine tapes from 1999 are already falling to pieces. It looks like a C roll dub! uck! I need a trusty u-mie. Maybe the one Karen has will be the nice one. I just am afraid it will crush my Stack, as I can't put it anywhere else.

Well, it's partly luck, well, mostl luck... My U-matics wre all GIVEN to me, (and one hasn't arrive becaue the guy who is shipping it is a lazy as I am, and the other two will cost $100 to ship so that guy is holding them while i make room and get funds) and most other stuff was gotten for a deal... I paid $80 for my 900 off someone who didn't know better and then $100 for repairs and mods, got one LD player for $24 and another for free, got my Panasonic ODP model TQ-3032F for free from computer recycling, got my reciever on clearance, got my DVD player as a gift, and so forth... and the one sure to envy half of you.. got my COMPLETE mac G3 setup for free... although as a PC person I hardly use him but with so many of my fellow students MAC people I couldn't pass it up...

Jesse: build a small wood frame over the 2610 (or is it a 2600???) and put the stack on top of IT the frame is neccessarry to provide ventilation and not to crush the surprisingly flimsy (Compared to the rest.. still 3 times stronger than modern VCR plastic...) top grill of the machine.

Hey Sean how about lending me your snailshell case.... I want to 'borrow' a NP-1 from somewhere and go taping downtown. Snail's promise you'll get it back! Seriously, I want to borrow one....

Yes I found that the top grille is flimsy; my VO-1600 had a weak lid. But I want to spray paint it another colour (Probably Millenia pearl-white LOL) because that once-white-now-yellow paint is really yucky. I guess that it can go with my twirlytuner 9" Sony, because I dont have room in the living room to put it!

I was reading about how the SL-HFT7 has something called 'simulated stereo'. Is there a device you can get so that when you dub mono tapes to a stereo VCR you can make them sound like they were stereo? And maybe add dolby reduction to them? What would I have to enter to find them on eBay?

Never seen one stand-alone but several recievers ahve it an output option but on,y to the speakers, not the line level outputs... Not worth your tine, anyway, any simulated stereo is just rotten...

Franny: The only way I know of duping from a mono deck to a stereo/hifi one is by using a Y-adaptor for the RCA plug on the mono deck. Even then it won't be true stereo, but dual-mono. So even if I record on to hifi, I'm still limited by the sound quality of the original mono track. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how the HFT-77's works since I don't own one.

Hey, here's an SL-HF505 Highband Jappy-Beta I found on weeeebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15099&item=1949502835

Hey Franny I can sort of make it sound like muffled stereo if I route the mono through my Yamaha DSP-1 surround processor.. If I have the "effect" on, it sounds sort of like.. You know the hifi VHS audio while the tracking is being adjusted? It's a little better than mono but not really "hifi." LOL! Hee hee heeee

Call it lo-fi? that yapanese beta has allready got a snail stuck on it... WIsh we could pry him off...

For Sale. Betamax SL-HF100 -P. Been in my attic for 10 years or so. Was working when put away, but comes untested. Reasonable offers please. Also large number of BETA tapes, some good music tapes.

Yuckies.. Why can't the Japs give us the cool stuff? I'm gonna move to Japan.. hee hee hee! I wonder if they have GEoodwills?

Weird question here: Which Beta hi-fi models had did NOT have a real-time counter? I ask this because that Sony Dynamicron L-750 I got from a thrift store is labeled with: 0000-2338"My American Cousin" 2338-3976 "Armed Response" indicating it was recorded on a machine without a real-time counter, yet it makes the Beta Hi-Fi indicator light up when played on my SL-HF600. I like to try to figure out which machines the secondhand tapes I buy might have been recorded on based on their speed ßI/II/III, whether or not they have Beta hi-fi, etc. I'd like to use SuperBeta as a clue but a lot of times its hard to really tell and not many people bother to fill in those little boxes at the bottom of the label.

I saw an SL-HF 750 offered by the snail 1ziggi1 being snapped at by the snail yaderw. Snails snapping at snails and the poor beta wanter is left out in the cold...

Well of the HiFi Betas, I know the SL-HF 300 uses a number counter and likely the SL-HF 500 as well (I have no data on that).The SL-HF 400 had a numbers timer as did the SL-HFRs 60 and 50 and 30. The SL-5200 had a mechanical timer. I don't think any of the Sanyo, Toshiba, Aiwa, Sears, Radio Shack or NEC HiFi Betas had H/M/S timers so that cover a lot of Betas. My SL-HF 300 had an indirect sort of tape return that required you to hold down the rewind button while pressing either the stop or play button but my SL-HF 360 had a time counter but no tape return. Perhaps if Sony had standardised their Betas' features as much as improving technology allowed they could've saved money by having as many standardized board parts as possible. How much more over the life of a production run would it have cost Sony to have the SL-2710's 125 channel tuner for all the Betas instead of hobbling the format with machines that got only 14 measly presets channels amongst 36 lousy stinkin' cable channels?

And another thing...

Sony's counter was based on the control track pulses and you'd get a higher/lower count with any change in tape speed. Sanyo's tape counter was based on rotations of the takeup reel drive and the count was consistant to the tape length irregardless of the recording speed used. If you logged the tape with a Sony the count won't necessarily match if you play back on a Sanyo or vice versa.

The sanyo counter is what I call "R^3"... for those of you NOT familliar with Ti calculator jargon that's "R cubed" or to the third power... for 3 "R"s meaning "Righthand Reel Revolutions" counter. The control track pulse counter is more advanced and more accurate. To be honest I can't immagine the circuits that converts the control track pulse into meaningful units is that much more complex than the one that converts it into mush numbers... Another counter gripe involves the clock/counter resetting to clock when the machine is cycled off... in a room with 10 or more devices capable of giving time, having one VTR show a coutner INSTEAD of a clock would be nice...

My NEC VC-739E Beta hi-fi DOES have a real-time HR/MIN/SEC counter.

Please be aware that there is a trader on ebay.com advertising pre-recorded Betamax tapes but fails to send out these goods after payment has been received from buyer. The name of this person is Shari Jatho, trading under the name DustyToys4u. I have informed ebay who are looking into the matter but all e-mails to Shari Jatho are never answered. You have been warned !!!

Craig: thanks!

And the rest of "us"... it looks like someone left two U-matics alone for too long and a while later, this showed up! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15099&item=1948518781&rd=1 NOt a bad "Sleech" if I do say so myself! anyone know anything about these units beyond them being true X-1 decks?

The counter circuit is nothing more than a counter (such as a time clock) which clock reference is the CTL pulse instead of a fixed reference such as a quartz.

_@_v- to Andy thanx for the 'eyestalks up' on the NEC betas. I've never seen NEC betas and none of the e-bay pix I had could confirm the counter type...

_@_v-to Sean 'Snailkill' M... (I guess we're gonna hafta call you Snailkill now..)

According to the Glasser site the SLO-230 you won bid on has added to an ordinary SL-7200 A/V in/outs and audio dub capability, no word on if the twisty-dial tuner is a dummy or actually functions on that - probably does.One minor drawback apparently is the non-locking pause button. I've seen SL-7200s on eBay with a tape changer attachment and at Betamax TO in the 'My Betamax' section you see a Japanese SLO-model with the changer attachment, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that yes you can stick a tape-changer onto this model assuming you could find one.

My SLO-1400 (STILL haven't fixed it... too lazy and VERY happy with Mr. 900) has a changer port under a panel. I'll have to look. Speaking of the 900, the problem is definitely with the tapes, the last owner of them had SEVERAL programs on each and would reutinely pull one out in the middle or end and since the Sanyo unthreads at stops and so forth this was VERY hard on them in places... the same errors show up if you record over in the same places... just bad old tapes.

Regarding the the counters, the Aiwa AV-70 has quite a unique (?) way of approximating time using a linear (0000) counter. By the time you reach the end of a tape, the counter would've advanced up to approximately 10x the tape-length. So about 2500 for an L-250; 5000: L-500; 7500: L-750; 8300: L-830. Think it'll roll back to zero for a custom L-1000, too. If recording, I can judge the elasped time pretty well from the counter setting.

Also, the remaining time counter works by calculating the speed ratio between take-up and supply reels.

And I think the regular counter gets its reference signal somewhere else in slow motion transport modes as the head wouldn't be able to pick up the CTL pulse properly at such slow speeds.

Oh well nice sleech for you Sean. I hate that dumbo counter-to-clock on power off "feature." It's retarded, and yes I've noticed the way tape counter speed increases on my 300 when I switch speeds. I also hate the way the SL-HF300 forgets clocka nd timer settings if it's unplugged for more than a few seconds (like 1 or 2...).

Anyone got an old (WITH metal in it besides the video drum) Hifi VHS they wanna sell me?

I've got one in the trunk of my car. Fished it from the same skip I got my Go-video Dual VCR from. it's a sharp. If it works it's yours. I'll test it out monday. Real hi-class looking unit, too.

Jesse, does the vhs have to work?? I got a few laying around, in fact one is a uppity AIWA deck that needs the character generator removed or replaced. It's an early HQ deck. Another deck is a TEAC pre-HQ that needs belts. You want metal cased decks for????...hurting people?? or you live in the snowbelt and need some to throw in the trunk for weight?? LOL.

AS for RTC's IIRC the Sanyo 7250 had a real time counter.

Later. Pepse.

Here a niffty little item for you home TV studio folks...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21166&item=1949855447

A Sony XVC-900 video color corrector and switcher. Has several inputs and fader controls.

At $25 bux right now...

You put too many of those old vehos decks in your trunk and you may seriously jeopardize your car's gas mileage! I won't even go w/ the Umatic's. :) :)

What's really funny is that my car has a larger payload capacity than some pickup trucks I've seen... it'll hold 1100 pounds... that's about a dozen U-matics AND me... remember, if there's room in the front passenger seat, it's not full!

I see you plan to make room in the Snail-mobile for that XVC-900 colour corrector thingie. You've been getting some good sleeches lately. Any of them get to your home in the Snail-cave yet...

NOt yet, but soon. I hadn't sent payment so I used paypal and they should all be comming soon. Circumstances conspired to keep me away from the post office so I used paypal... some stuff will ship this week, some is shipped allready. I'll keep you posted.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3284&item=1948708571&rd=1

-=SLEECH=- It's MINE. another odd, obscure format. it's like a REALLY huge 8-track that lasts a day. how cool is that?!?

Is that a MUZAK machine? Can you make your own tapes if you don't like the music they give you?

My late brother would've been your slave for life to get at those broadcast records. Especially if you could've snagged Casey Kasum's American Top 40 masters. I can still see him hunched over the pause button of his tape recorder like the obsessive compulsive snail he was, trying to get a perfect recording off the air. He'd then go and buy up all the singles from the week's show anyway....

When my dad was a DJ with an Air Force radio station he remembered there was a place where they kept ALL the old stuff on file... some of it was so old the records were made of glass and all sorts of funky stuff. We wonder where it all went, since it's basically a consice radio history... still have tapes of his show, however.

nooooooooooo!!! Sean you ALWAYS get the good stuff!!!!! Ugh I'm so jealous of you. No, I want a Vehos with metal in it because my Spamsung is going to cost a lot to get fixxed and I wanted a "quality" (quality VHS is a.. whats what word? An oxymoron!) VHS machine. But are these decks HiFis? Dammit!!!!! I want that colour corrector! ............

And by the way what format is the Muzak machine? LOL and it must use tubes! Yayyyy. Erf.. Got an APC Back-Ups 1000 for ($ 30 ) my computer, LOL! Even with a 17" monitor, cable modem, splatterjet printer and computer connected to it it doesn't even show 2 bars on its load indicator. There are about 10-15 of them, and the one that I got was the only one that didn't have InfoNiacin batteries. It chirped when I pressed its test button and all the others were dead.

Hey, anyone ever listen to Dr. Demento way back when? I got a whole bunch of the air records I got from a radio station. Most of them from the early 80's. Quite interesting considering he hasn't been on any station in this area in nearly 10 years!

Madness.. my friend, my hero... how much would you charge to put those Dr. D. shows on ßeta Hi-Fi for me (ßIII, of course)?????

*drooling and sleeching all over the page* __@_v

By any chance do you have the appearance on that Dr. Demento show of 'Wierd' Al Yankovich? He did an impromptu rendition of a 'Dead Hamster' to the tune of Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer'. I remember hearing a tape of that paricular show a long time ago.

...or the Pitbull Song?

"Bite his butt you vicious mutt! Spill his guts! Attack! I feel so cool with my pit bull and you're his little snack!"

I used my HFR-70 and HFP200 to record Dr Demento in the 80's then transfer good songs to cassette. then I erased the tapes for movies :( shoulda kept them all.Its been 2 years since he was on in my area and I started listening to him in 1980 or 1981.

Haven't heard Dr. Demento since I escaped snowy Buffalo 22 winters ago. I think it was on Sunday nights. Try http://www.drdemento.com/ or http://php.indiana.edu/~jbmorris/