Looking for HD MAC laserdiscs

[Andrea]

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Hello, I'm looking for any HD MAC laserdisc title,
even demo or test.

Andrea

 

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"Andrea" <laserdisc@tiscali.it> wrote in message news:<c7lrbn$kob$1@lacerta.tiscalinet.it>...
> Hello, I'm looking for any HD MAC laserdisc title,
> even demo or test.
>
> Andrea

What are they ?

 

[Andrea]

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> > Hello, I'm looking for any HD MAC laserdisc title,
> > even demo or test.
> >
> > Andrea
>
> What are they ?

Hi Nicholas,
HD MAC is the high definition (indeed, was) european
standard. It had 1250 vertical lines, interlaced, compressed
analogic video, and four digital audio channels.
Maybe has some similarities with MUSE, but I'm not so sure...

Well, as I have the (apparently) ONLY HD MAC laserdisc
player left in the world, I thought to give it some right discs!
It deserves them ;-)

Andrea

 

[Guest]

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Was anything ever produced for this player/format?

 

[Guest]

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"Andrea" <laserdisc@tiscali.it> wrote in message
news:c7rsjh$gu6$1@lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
> HD MAC is the high definition (indeed, was) european
> standard. It had 1250 vertical lines, interlaced, compressed
> analogic video, and four digital audio channels.
> Maybe has some similarities with MUSE, but I'm not so sure...

That's very odd, given that there has never been a standard for high
definition televisions in Europe.

 

[Guest]

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Actually there was.

When the HDTV Consortium made their first important congress on the future
of "HDTV" as in international spec, Japan was ready with HiVision/MUSE,
Europe was late with HD-MAC and USA had nothing real to propose.

Japan was about to make their HiVision a worldwide de facto standard when...
the Consortium decided that HDTV would be 100% digital. This instantly
killed HD-MAC and left HiVision breathless. I can remember watching a demo
of PAL HDTV on a Thomson prototype on a show in France about 10 years ago.

That also gave 5 to 10 years to both USA and Europe to come up with their
HDTV proposals, It tooks about that time to HiVision to turn into HiVision
Digital.

But at that time Europe was still putting HDTV priority #1 and Widescreen TV
Set #2. Japan and USA then changed their priority. Europe was wrong since
history shows us that widescreen were the first "new" thing to interest
people, long before HDTV.

So, what will be the next big step if we consider HDTV as almost - if not
already - there?

Rgds,
Julien


Joshua Zyber wrote:

> "Andrea" <laserdisc@tiscali.it> wrote in message
> news:c7rsjh$gu6$1@lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
>
>>HD MAC is the high definition (indeed, was) european
>>standard. It had 1250 vertical lines, interlaced, compressed
>>analogic video, and four digital audio channels.
>>Maybe has some similarities with MUSE, but I'm not so sure...
>
>
> That's very odd, given that there has never been a standard for high
> definition televisions in Europe.
>
>

 

[Andrea]

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Julien (as usual) is right.

There were very very few HD MAC video tape
recorders, and as far as I know, my Philips CSA 300
(proudly "made in Italy" ;-) maybe is the ONLY
existing HD MAC laserdisc player (maybe also
this is the last "alive" item!)

If someone else knows something about HD MAC
laserdisc player (just a URL) please post here.

Andrea

 

[Guest]

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"Andrea" <laserdisc@tiscali.it> wrote in message
news:c7u6r2$dl1$1@lacerta.tiscalinet.it...
> Julien (as usual) is right.
>
> There were very very few HD MAC video tape
> recorders, and as far as I know, my Philips CSA 300
> (proudly "made in Italy" ;-) maybe is the ONLY
> existing HD MAC laserdisc player (maybe also
> this is the last "alive" item!)
>
> If someone else knows something about HD MAC
> laserdisc player (just a URL) please post here.

Andrea, if you ever felt the urge to write an article about what HD-MAC
was and how it performs, let me know and I'll post it on my site (with
proper attribution, of course).