I meant in a hypothetical warp drive situation. I.e. ftl.
Also, their speed may be fixed but the frequency and momentum will still shift upwards. That's the concern.
I found a lever behind the tonearm that allows the tonarm to rest on the LP. With the counterweight, the tonearm tends to bounce around.
The only laserdisc players that still seam to sell are the hivision ones, which is what the Pioneer hld-x9 is. However, that platinum color means it was made in Japan, and it 110 volts. The best in North America appears to be the Sony HIL-C1, which is more rarely mentioned. The Runco LJR II is NOT the best laserdisc player for North America but the only one THX certified, in fact I remember the description when it came out as having a 2-D Y/C filter. Cutting themselves out as soon as they listed. The CLD-99 is the best one Pioneer sold in NA. The LD-S9 is the Japanese issue of it. The HLD-X9 is the Hi-vision version of that.
Also, Vienna soundfont studio is back as freeware with a later version than was ever available before.
Aha, found an even better Sony player, the Sony HIL-2CEX.
There's also micro USB which is larger than mini USB and smaller than regular USB. I have no idea what that is supposed to be for.
Another brand back from the dead is Iriver. They were the audiophile choice for portable CD players, better than Sony.
If I were to try to make a list of best laserdisc players it would be
1) Sony HIL-2CEX
2) Pioneer HLD-X9
3) Sony HIL-C1
4) Pioneer CLD-99
5) Ruco LJR II (THX certification)
6) McIntosh MLD-7020
The thing is there is a lot of irrational exuberance over the LD-S9 because of some belief in the inadequacy of the CLD-99 because it didn't implement a 3-D Y/C filter correctly. I could have saved some money if I had bought the CLD-99.
The McIntosh MLD-7020 does not have AC-3 and is supposed to be very nearly a Pioneer CLD-97.
Also, note the CLD-D99 is the European version of the CLD-99.
Very few titles were issued in Hi-vision. If there were even an original edit or something I knew about, I'd say it.
The Sony players are much more rare than the Pioneer ones.
To be more careful than that
VHD - JVC
laser vision - Sony (this is where digital sound was introduced)
laserdisc - Pioneer
laser hi vision - Sony (muse discs)
Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet is stunning. It has the only authentic version of the dialog "Get thee to a nunnery" I thought they'd have to attribute the play to the earl guy who supposedly wrote the plays. The whole reason for the controversy is because of traditionally butchered dialog between Hamlet and Ophelia that was in the Mel Gibson version.
In the BBC production, the dialog makes clear that the term "nunnery" is ironic. Hamlet is implying its slang for a brothel.
The BBC also concludes that Ophelia must not be all that pretty for Hamlet to react the way he does. He's mocking that she's a virgin.
The Mel Gibson version has been pulled.
There used to be write ups on the controversy of William Shakespeare's identity. The real controversy was over his identity not over his authenticity!
Anyway, microscope resolution is that 16X11 1920 by 1320. Given the numbers I saw in cub scouts I think that was spot on. The only weird limitation I can think of is the CMYK standard that is part of tif. That should result in the same visible color.
The Y/C filter made it to the wikipedia where it is mentioned under laserdisc players:
The LD-S9 and HLD-X9 share a highly advanced comb filter, allowing them to offer a considerable advantage in picture quality over most other LD players when the S-Video connection is used. The comb filter present in these players is unique and is purportedly the finest comb filter ever used in consumer A/V gear:
The issue even brought to the web whether time is a dimension. It is. Brittannica's description is disheartening
In the face of these difficulties, philosophers tend to divide into two sorts: the “process philosophers” and the “philosophers of the manifold.” Process philosophers—such as Alfred North Whitehead, an Anglo-American mathematician, scientist. and metaphysician who died in 1947—hold that the flow of time (or human advance through it) is an important metaphysical fact. Like the French intuitionist Henri Bergson, they may hold that this flow can be grasped only by nonrational intuition. Bergson even held that the scientific concept of time as a dimension actually misrepresents reality. Philosophers of the manifold hold that the flow of time or human advance through time is an illusion. They argue, for example, that words such as past, future, and now, as well as the tenses of verbs, are indexical expressions that refer to the act of their own utterance. Hence, the alleged change of an event from being future to being past is an illusion.
Anyway, there are 3 highlight scenes in Hamlet that need to be done well
1) When he says "Get thee to a nunnery!" to Ophelia
2) The speech in Act IV scene IV, prince Hamlet gives permission to prince Fortinbras of Norway to cross over the Netherlands and "engage" the Polish army.
3) The speech at the end where he says "tomorrow I will be a grave man!" - apparently this is found in the Mel Gibson version only
Nobody has ever done all 3 well.
2016 Broadway version - I'm watching and Ophelia is not interpreted as a beauty here. That makes more humane. You don't tell the beautiful love of your life to get thee to a nunnery, you might if she's a mockery of what you wanted.
They try to make the beginning more comical with the appearance of the ghost. Almost works. A bit ghostbusterish.
The 1980 BBC production is the best version overall. But it's supposed to be "drink of this potion" not "drink off this potion."