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Video Scratching Goes Mainstream

Posted by simoniker on from the wiki-wiki-wiki dept.

Boomzilla writes "Pioneer has released a digital audio and video turntable (the DVJ-X1), which allows you to manipulate and playback synchronized digital audio and video. You can manipulate DVD visuals in the same way as you would music i.e. real-time digital video scratches, loops and instant cues. The video and audio streams will stay in sync, even when they're being reversed and pitched. I guess this is the logical, commercialized version of that which has been done before. It's being shown at CES, and there are several pictures on the official Pioneer site."

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  1. Hello Smithers by Sarojin · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are very good.. at turning me on

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  2. Max Headroom by saramakos · · Score: 3, Funny

    Scratching and looping? Sounds exactly like "Max Headroom" from the early 80s!

  3. Oh no...think of what Lucas can do with this!!! by Eberlin · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not only has he already re-edited his own stuff, imagine what he can do with DVD's of other people's movies!!! He'll frickin' P-Diddy his way back into the mainstream with remixes of The Sound of Music, Casablanca, and The Godfather.

    It's not copyright infringement, it's sampling!!! Now a "meesa jar jar binks" is just about the same as an "uh huh yeah!"

  4. Revolutionary.... by _Pinky_ · · Score: 5, Funny

    At least for my porn collection!

  5. That much RAM... by irokitt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hmm...

    It has RAM, and a DVD drive. Therefore, it can be made to run Linux!

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  6. Re:Done before and again... by sakusha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well that's nothing new. I attended an art history lecture where a professor described how the ancient Greeks used arrays of tinted glass with candles behind them, behind shutters activated by strings attached to a keyboard. They would take ergot to trip out, then listen to lyre concerts with freaky light shows.

  7. Design oversight by Comrade+Pikachu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see... LP's operate at 33.3 RPM.

    DVD's rotate at 1400+ RPM.

    I can picture earnest, stern-faced VJ's sucking on burnt fingertips. :-)