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Discovision, a revolutionary viewing system that utilizes a laser beam, offers frame by
frame viewing of movies, such as The Birds pictured above.
UNL swings into 'Discovision'
By Paula Bauer
It looks like a stereo, connects to a tele
vision, plays plastic silver discs and will
enter a UNL classroom this fall.
This star pupil is the Magnavox MCA
Discovision video display unit. Image and
sound are transmitted to a television by a
laser beam below the surface of the turn
table. Unlike a stereo album, the 12"
videodiscs are read from the inside of the
disc to the outer edge.
The unit's laser technology allows ac
tion to be stopped, advanced, or reversed
by frame without loss of picture quality.
Each disc contains 54,000 frames per side
and lasts 30 minutes.
Although new to UNL classrooms this
fall, videodisc technology has been the
focus of a Nebraska Educational Television
project that began in 1978.
Videodisc project director Rod Daynes
said the program is now in the second
phase of a three-phase program. Phase I in
cluded market research and acquisition of
specialized equipment.
Phase II involves making four pilot discs
that demonstrate the unit's instructional
capability. The four videodiscs include
gymnastics, Spanish pronunciation, behav
iorism and metrics.
Using gymnastics as an example, Daynes
said the disc is divided into "chapters" of
forward roll, backward roll, and cartwheel.
He explained that a teacher could concen
trate on one chapter, one sequence or one
frame.
THE FREEZE-FRAME capability of
the unit likens it to an "illustrated text
book with electronic access," he said.
Phase II is almost completed. The video
tapes that were made in Lincoln were sent
to Los Angeles to be pressed into discs, but
Daynes said the discs probably won't arrive
until November.
"There's only one mastering machine
(to press the discs) that we can use, and it's
pretty busy because CM. bought 1 1 ,000
units to sell cars with," he said.
Daynes, a former videodisc project de
signer in Los Angeles will hold a free uni
versity class about the "futuristic-type pre
dictions of video" at 7: IS p.m. on October
8.
CONSUMER TESTING of the MCA
Discovision unit is now underway, accord
ing to Magnavox representative Rich Barbe
in Atlanta, Ga.
Barbe said that over 1 ,000 units were
sold in eight months at three Atlanta retail
stores. The home consumer market is also
being tested in Seattle, Wash., he said.
The MCA Discovision unit costs $775,
with videodiscs priced between $9.95 and
$24.95. The disc catalog includes instruct
ional programs and feature films.
Other schools now using the unit in
clude Harvard and most California state
universities, Barbe said.
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