9:16 aspect ratio for VX1000?

[Jeremy Levy]

I remember seeing some info about using 9:16 aspect ratio on the Sony
VX-1000 camera. Does anybody know how to do this? If so, please let me
know directly by e-mail. Thanks,

-Jeremy Levy
jl...@pitt.edu

[Charles Tomaras]

Jeremy,

Part of the value of newsgroups depends on sharing information with everyone
that subscribes. Having people respond via e-mail and thereby creating
private threads is a disservice to all.

I believe there is a separate "service device or box" that connects to the
VX-1000 allowing you to switch it into a 16:9 mode.

Charles Tomaras
tom...@tomaras.com
Seattle, WA USA

Jeremy Levy wrote in message <34BBF7...@pitt.edu>...

[Alyn]

Charles Tomaras (tom...@tomaras.com) wrote:

: I believe there is a separate "service device or box" that connects to the

: VX-1000 allowing you to switch it into a 16:9 mode.

On my PAL VX1000 16:9 is standard. It's a menu choice. On NTSC it's
probably available by tweaking the mode pages with the RM95 controller.
It's a tedious process as fooling with these settings (about 300 hundred
of them) can fry your camera. I did manage to enable DV IN on my Euro
VX1000 (a non-standard feature on the Pal units) and I did manage to
defeat the annoying Auot-gain circuit. But that was it. I've never seen
the code for enabling 16:9 on NTSC.

Kevin Elders
--

[Malcolm Knight]

In article <alynEMs...@netcom.com>, Alyn

> I did manage to enable DV IN on my Euro
> VX1000 (a non-standard feature on the Pal units)

Shouldn't that be - "a non standard feature on units imported into the
European Union"? A practice which allows PAL units elsewhere to have DV IN
and bars SECAM from the facility too.

The EU imposes a 19% (IIRC) tax on recording devices to protect local
industry and Far Eastern camcorder manufacturers avoid it by disabling all
'IN' sockets, DV or otherwise . And many would say the EU is totally mad.

--
Malcolm

[Mike Knowles]

Jeremy--
I've been trying to get the 16x9 feature enabled on my U.S. NTSC
VX1000 for quite some time. The Japanese NTSC model has it and is
enabled through the on-screen menu. I got the RM-95 and Japanese and
US service mauals and began comparing code. I also compared hardware
differeces. My conclusion so far is that you cannot force the US NTSC
model into 16X9 mode by merely changing the hexadecimal codes. After
closer scrutiny I found that the Japanese model has a different
version of a couple of boards, and on those boards, different
components. At this point it would be more economical to get a camera
that already has the 16x9 mode enabled.
Mike