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player so we know that the command has been accepted. After
this we have a ‘00’ to tell the Smart Brick Brain that it has found the
end of the string.
A typical end string for a Sony LaserDisk show is:
STILL
Translated into HEX ASCII, this string becomes (this is what you
would enter):
4F 8A 00
and it would be displayed on the String Setup Menu as:
4F (0A) 00
The format of this string is pretty much like that of the startup
string, except that there is no need to send the LaserSearch string
as was done at the beginning of the show, and the F-PLAY com-
mand has been replaced by a STILL command for the LaserDisk
player. This freezes the image to whatever the last image on the
video disk was. Other commands are available for blanking out
the video, ejecting the disk, or a variety of other things. You can
even build up a string which will tell the LaserDisk player to search
for another frame on the disk and freeze or start playing from that
frame. If no command is given to the LaserDisk player at the end
of a LaserDisk show, then the player will continue playing along
until the end of the disk is reached or another command is re-
ceived.
The following is a partial listing of the commands supported
by Sony LaserDisk players. It is by no means a complete list of all
of the commands available to you, but includes those common
commands which you may actually need. Not all Sony players
support this full range of commands or respond in the same way
to the commands sent to them. These particular commands are
from a LDP-1500’s manual, and so may not be applicable to all
Sony players. The values shown are what you would actually
enter into the strings.
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