10 Dec
1998
10 Dec
'98
6:54 a.m.
Lots of people in the states sell them, its called the "Actimates" Barney.
As I understood it the toy "saw" signals in the form of IR coded pulses in
the video and responded appropriately. There are a couple of groups on the
net who have hacked the toy to give the dinosaur an extended, if somewhat
less refined, vocabulary.
--Chuck
At 09:28 PM 12/10/98 +0001, you wrote:
>I got just
two words for you:
> Actimates Barney
>In this case it is "have your toy
'look' at the television set..."
Well, as I understand it, the purple one's
"TV Pack" includes a special
RF transmitter that grabs a signal from specially encoded videotapes
or even the PBS show. Where did they stuff the signal - in the video
or the audio? If audio, at what frequency? Or is it just in the
second audio channel, like bilingual programming?
Just to get this right - You are talkig about the Purple
Monster (Barney loves you - I was at the Universal Studios
LA some 4 or 5 years ago with a friend when they just had
a special Barney feature around the park - my friend still
goes crazy when I mention 'Barney loves you' :) - so this
is about the purple Godzilla guy and there is a 'toy' that
works with some effects of the show ? What does it do ?
What effects ? What triggers ? Whats the price ? Or is it
already vintage ? I NEED TO KNOW - the perfect gift for
my friend (together wit a fiting barney video).
Gruss
Hans
--
Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK