<h3>We should be on Youtube</h3>
<b>Mechanical TV on Youtube.</b> Check out this mechanical TV post at Youtube...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5oXKMEaAsE
<b>Pioneer.</b> The poster is a true pioneer! Since this is impressive as a first effort, I apologize for my criticisms below. Anyway, the problems are there.
<b>No genlock.</b> Here's my impression of the Youtube post: You can just see the image of a dancer. The mechanical video isn't genlocked. Periodically, a vertical scan line sweeps across the picture. (That is, the horizontal or frame sync seems out of whack. Because the picture came from a disc scanner, the picture syncs vertically.) The focus could be better, too. Accompanying music <i>almost</i> makes the video watchable.
<b>Annoying Lines.</b> Youtube provides most people's only exposure to mechanical video. They must think that those annoying, flipping lines plague all mechanical video. How can these images impress anyone?
<b>Promotion opportunity.</b> As a recent issue of our journal says, we need to promote our club. For NBTVA, Youtube is an important and overlooked public relations source.
<b>We must improve Youtube images.</b> Club members should think about ways to get better images on Youtube.
<ul>
<li>The most direct way is to start a new standard. This standard would maintain our scanning method, but increase the scanning speed. The object would be video that we could convert to Youtube format. (I don't know what frame speed Youtube uses. 30fps? 15fps?) </li>
<li>Another way is a Youtube scan-converter program.</li>
</ul>
Some of you are already experimenting with increased disc speed. Now you have another reason to pursue these experiments.
Jim AA9DT