Re: pixelvision concept

["J. D. SMX" <jsmelser@access.tucson.org>]

Hello PXL2000 alumni,



> Is anyone actually using a PXL for, say, video productions; i.e. is

> anyone crafting something that people would wanna watch? Or are we

> all sitting around our home laboratories, destroying, deconstructing

> and "improving" what -- when I last checked -- are toy cameras, made

> for kids once upon a time. Admittedly cool toys, but toys.



As a person who's never OWNED a PXL2000, just one who's been asked to 

fix several and I have seen the video from them...it's just a cool 

toy.  There was one member here at Access Tucson who had done some 

video projects with hers; I set her up with a PXL to TBC to S-VHS 

system for transfering her footage for further editing....etc.



But after trying to fix broken ones and knowing that these units trade 

for 2 and 3 times the original price; I wouldn't be interested in 

owning one of these old monochrome ones myself except to get it at a 

bargain price-make the premodulator modifications and turn it around 

for a profit.



>.... obsess over Fisher-Price conspiracies.

Now, if they do come out with a color version like they speak of on 

the websites I've visited, at the right price-I may consider 

purchasing one if the other upgrades are also adhered to, ie. video 

and audio outs instead of modulated crap,,,and mostly-the aspect 

ratio closer to HDTV or cinemascope (instead of a box inside the 

raster)



> Oh yeah, no offense to anyone actually fixing/improving these

> machines. They can be a drag.



If I'd only had a schematic, a parts list, and an exploded view.....

(or the ambition to create them all) what I couldn't have done.

I haven't come across anything so top secret since Roswell. Doe!



SMX





J. D. SMX

Engineering Services Manager

Access Tucson

jsmelser@access.tucson.org