Daily Giz Wiz 775/Transcript
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SERIES: Daily Giz Wiz
EPISODE: #775
DATE: February 26, 2009
TITLE: VIP Hybrid 8
SPEAKERS: Leo Laporte & Dick DeBartolo
SOURCE FILE: http://twit.tv/dgw775
DURATION: 26:17
DESCRIPTION: [Dick's Gadget Warehouse] Leo and Dick discuss the VIP Hybrid 8
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Opening Theme by Mark Blasco at PodcastThemes.com is played in the background while Leo says:
It's time for the Daily Giz Wiz with Mad's Maddest writer, Dick DeBartolo. This is episode #775 for February 27th, 2009 - the VIP Hybrid 8. The Daily Giz Wiz is brought to you buy GoToMeeting- online meetings made easy! For a free thirty (30) day trial of GoToMeeting, visit GoToMeeting.com slash Giz Wiz. And now, get ready for Dick!
[Leo in Vincent Price styled, show opening announcer voice]Come the end of the week, it's time to take a peek, deep within the walls of Dick's Gadget Warehouse.
Gadget Warehouse Friday by Paul Minshall is played
And now ladies and gentlemen, here he is... Dicky-D. Hello!
DICK: Leo, How you doing?
LEO: I'm fine. Boy, the warehouse is looking pretty good these days. You've kind of cleaned it up a little bit.
DICK: I'm getting stuff out, you know, I'm finding boxes of books... I've found some paper back books...
LEO: See, this is really cool that, you know, you've thrown stuff in here for years and now when you go back...
DICK: Yes, my plan. My... incredibly stupid plan. It's now paying off!
LEO: They've appreciated in value.
DICK: They've appreciated in value, yup. I've spent, I told 'ya, I've spent like close to $30,000 to keep this stuff in the warehouse...
LEO: (laughs)
DICK: ...for twenty-five (25) years and I'm making back hundreds of dollars.
LEO: Hundreds, and hundreds!
DICK: Had I never had the Gadget Warehouse, I would be $20,000 richer.
LEO: Yes! But we'd all be poorer...
DICK: And I wouldn't have to keep going to the Post Office mailing out crap.
LEO: We would all be poorer in spirit. That's all I can say.
DICK: Oh, well that's very, see now, that's, now, that's very, that's a very uplifting thought.
LEO: Yes.
DICK: And if you don't laugh after it, I will be even uplifted more.
LEO: No, I'm only grinning.
DICK: Okay, okay.
LEO: You can't see that I'm smiling.
DICK: I'm medium uplifted.
LEO: {laughing) Oh, I laughed. Oops!
DICK: Alright, were going back...
LEO: What'd you got, what'd you got? You said that this would be something that is very old, but very exciting.
DICK: Well, for me, at the time, you know I was doing... recording my videos, my VHS videos and there was no way to add special effects to VHS videos. You probably don't even know of a way to add a special effect to one.
LEO: I didn't know you could, no.
DICK: Okay. Well, if you had the VIP Video Duplicator Professional Hybrid unit, you could. You could connect two (2) VCR's to the back of this device, and a third VCR out. So you would do two (2) VHS recorders, yeah, recorders in to another recorder with virgin tape on it and you could select effects, cross fades. You could do split screen.
LEO: So you're dubbing from one to the other?
DICK: To the other, through this device.
LEO: And this device adds the effect?
DICK: Adds the effect, so you could, you could add scenes, you could do wipes between scenes, through this device. You could theoretically sharpen the image...
LEO: Wow!
DICK: ...and it had a little screen to show how much you were sharpening it. You could sharpen it a little before it went into total distortion.
LEO: (laughs)
DICK: It was, for the time, it was very amazing.
LEO: (laughing) Wow, that's a lot sharper!
DICK: Yeah, is that sharper or is that not sharper? Yeah, I mean it was expensive. It was close to $400.
LEO: Wow, but really, remember that there was no way to do this...
DICK: No way to do it. You could, you could fade... you could take video tape that you already shot and fade up on a scene. You could not do that normally.
LEO: Wow! Right!
DICK: You could fade out at the end of a movie.
LEO: That's so funny. Now, I mean, I would imagine that you would spend a lot of time stopping and starting, stopping and starting...
DICK: Oh! It was a nightmare! I think I used it twice.
LEO: Right. I mean, that's hard work.
DICK: The fact that I owned it was...
LEO: (laughs)
DICK: ...this was one of those things that I always had it on a shelf and when people would come over, I would go: I can do cross fades
