Posted by Bill Vermillion on 10/19/05 15:15

In article <slrndlaa6n.17c.nospam@debian.dns2go.com>,
Justin <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote:
>Smarty wrote on [Tue, 18 Oct 2005 12:48:49 -0400]:
>> Ken,

>> That is exactly what I do Ken. I actually offered that option
>> in a subsequent reply, describing how I took DVDs like
>> Goodfellow (Robert DiNiro) and others which span 2 sides and
>> reauthor them to 2 disks.

>> I'm old enough to remember the Garrard turntable which had a
>> robotic arm which would flip vinyl LP albums years ago. What a
>> monstrosity. I'm glad this is NOT being done for DVDs.

>Does it need to be though? I know there were laserdisc players that
>would flip the laser to the other side of the disc, instead of flipping
>the disc. Or some similar method where it was the laser that moved or
>changed and not the disc.

Comment about first poster's comment on Garrard.

There was also another brand, whose name I've forgotten, that had
three rubber idler wheels mounted vertically that swung in and
sat on the turntable and the disk would fall down and rotate
backwards and the dual sided cartridge would play the bottom side.

When it hit the end the idlers would swing out and the top side
would play.

There are no laser disks that flipped disks but it was a head that
moved out and rotated and then played the other side after changing
the rotational direction.

Then there are those like my LD-W1 that had two trays and a
rotating head so it would play four sides in succession, which made
CAV mutliple disk sets much easier to watch. I'd only have to
change a disk for those set with more than 2 disks - such as the
early imported letterbox CAV Star Wars.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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