HIGH QUALITY TPU DVD Video Released from Jack Durban

[shredon]

 Can't seem to get the torrent link to work...? Any ideas?

Thx!

[Spoodily]

There may be several primary and secondary coils in the device, this does not mean they are all connected and/or being used at the same time.

2:00 to 5:40 (4:25 to 5:40 are most important): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k_SnToRJfs

1:30 to 6:40: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPxdl1zpcC8

I'll say again that in my opinion not all the wires are closed loop at the same time.  The function of the little torroid that can be seen in the FTPU, and the two in the 17" TPU are switching mechanisms.  These torroids are in all of the units and are the most important component because it controls the connection of the secondaries and primaries.

PS

I was not saying in a previous post to hit a standing wave.  I was referring to Tesla's experiments with catching a rebounding wave with a new one, over time the repeated tap would cause monumental effects.

Pg. 116 Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney

Years later  he told Allan L. Benson of other experiments he had made with an oscillator no larger than an alarm clock.  He described attaching a vibrator to a steel link two feet long and two inches thick.  "For a long time nothing happened...But at last...the great steal link began to tremble, increasing its trembling until it dilated and contracted like a beating heart--and finally broke!" (A. L. Benson, The World Today, Vol. XXI, No. 8 (February 1912)
Sledgehammers could not have done it, he told reporters; crowbars could not have done it, but a fusillade of taps, no one of which would have harmed a baby, did it.

SM warns against hitting perfect resonance and I think cavitation is the #1 reason for it.  Watch this video and think what would happen if that was copper being imploded and then flung outward.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR0YBAhY2PQ

"I'll turn on the primary frequency...and now the secondary frequency."

VOB1 (7:17-7:25): "Each time the frequency comes together (*claps*) it appears to have an effect."

Example:  If a cue ball is rolling past you and you have another cue ball in your hand, to keep the momentum of the rolling ball going in the same direction you would bring down your ball on top of the rolling ball just after it had slightly passed.  Too early and the ball would reverse and right on top the ball would stop.

[poynt99]

Funny that SM gave us KHz but recommends VHF tubes.  I always did find this strange. VHF is from 30 MHz to 300 MHz.

SM's words:
"Yes, I know that they are hard to find so I have found that I can use any triode designed for color TV VHF use."

is it? but if you want fast rise times even at kHz frequencies, wouldn't you want a fast device? it does make sense to you right?

how many camps are here now? 2, 4, more?

there's the spherics' camp with the comp field kick and angled/vertical coils rmf common induction approach, bruce? eldarion?

there's the Tesla camp with the quad coil rmf (what are you guys doing again?) Localjoe?

there's the carl camp with the sequentially-firing coils, anyone?

there's the Tesla/Dollard RE camp (but no one has seen RE yet, have they?) grumpy?

lil' ol' troll

[Localjoe]

@all
The tesla boys are in gk's thread conversing and working on it so i don't clutter this one....... Currently evaluating 2 main patents and 4 pats which were mentioned within the two main. 
                                                                                              Joe

[jdurban]

@EMdevices, thanks for the screenshots. I see your point about the fields now, by just using them separately we should see more detail instead of blurring them further. I was still a bit confused though, as Jack's video IS indeed interlaced  . I did have a look at www.100fps.com while trying to find the best deinterlacer for the footage, but you're correct in saying that I should really rephrase that to "best field combiner / blurrer" !!

I noticed one of the plugins called "DeInterlace Smooth" converts the interlaced footage into 60Hz by resizing each field as you have done and doubling the frame rate (smooth meaning frame rate NOT image!) - it should be possible to try this sort of thing in VirtualDub itself and this is the main reason for me using it. You can see the effect of the plugins and filters on-the-fly, and it doesn't blur the image further like it sometimes can when playing via Directshow / overlay. It can get very blocky when you "zoom in" on VirtualDub though as it doesn't do any smoothing on the preview images at all. Again, this is my personal preference for using it (plus, it's free, so we can send it to anyone).

@Jack - always good to see you on this forum. I don't think any of us expected anyone to turn up who actually worked with SM directly! Just wanted to say thanks for the video - I know you're very busy and I'm glad you stuck with it after you read some of the "less positive" posts.

Is a TBC supposed to correct (or attempt to correct) the errors already present on the master HI-8 tape? For instance, on the first part of the footage, you can see how wavy the black vertical line on the left is throughout most of the video - I know this is an effect of the head jitter etc., but I thought a TBC was supposed to do it's best to correct this?

A TBC can only do so much. It's primary function is getting the sync tip and porch right. Secondarily it can clean up Chroma vectors to a degree then from there the usual brightness / contrast issues.

Also, if you do run another copy, do you think there is any more info on the tape that can be captured by raising the black level slightly etc? (without clipping the whites).

I am creating a virgin and a cleaned up version using professional hardware and software.

Again, although this footage won't give us all the answers, it's one of the most important steps so far in trying to reverse-engineer the TPU IMHO .In deference to Grumpy's view a few posts back (I should know by now not to be the first fish that "bites"  ) - I'm all for the theory, but seeing that most of it goes over my head, I think I can be of more help in deciphering the wiring / coil configurations and the circuit operation first of all.)

Jack, do you possibly know who Spherics might actually be? (probably been asked before)

If I could get a copy of his diatribes it would help me detect similarities to SM's style.

@all - Apologies for this, but I made a bit of an error with the files I attached previously - you will need to download a copy of DVD2AVI....

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/download.php?sid=1028&ssid=0&did=2

Then, open your first VOB file from the SM DVD ("VTS_01_1.VOB"), and the rest in the sequence should also load in automatically. Then, just go to File > Save Project, and save the new file as "VTS_01_1.d2v" in the same folder as the other files (SM DVD's "VIDEO_TS" folder). You should then be able to open the .avs file with VirtualDubMod.

The reason it fails to open is because the d2v file points directly to where MY copy of the DVD files are stored. Sorry about that - I knew I should have tested it all fully.