NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/rec/video/releases/3986

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From: [e-mail] (Frank D. Malczewski)
Subject: scrolling white lines
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I see more and more of what I call "scrolling white lines" on many of
the laserdiscs I rent, and have gone through a couple of exchanges of
"Terminator" WS and "2001" WS to get "clean" copies.  With rental LDs,
I have just assumed that many of them have just been abused (finger-
prints, little scratches, etc), but with the "brand new" LDs I'm
beginning to wonder whether my CLD-3080 is a bit out of whack, and
thus more susceptible to such discs than other players might be.  I
have discs that have no scrolling white lines; until Fantasia and
Clockwork Orange (both CLV), I did not have any.

Did I just pick two discs that leave something to be desired in terms
of overall mastering quality (I recall that there are no such lines
in "Apocalypse Now", for example, nor on any of the CAV disks I've
viewed)?  (By "two discs", I am referring to "Terminator" and "2001";
I have yet to receive good copies of either of these.  "2001" scrolling
white lines seemed to have appeared in different places (maybe one
was in the same place, out of approx a handful per side 1/2) on the two
different sets I've examined).

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Frank Malczewski        ([e-mail])