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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: S-VHS this generation's Beta?
Message-ID: <3184@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 89 01:19:51 GMT
References: <2727@blake.acs.washington.edu> <692@lopez.UUCP> <26267@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
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In article <26267@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>Just get a good quality VHS tape (I like BASF) and drill the hole.
>It works fine.
>

Did you actually manage to pull this off?  We tried at our campus studio and
found the results to be horrendous.  The information our engineer came up with
was that the friction noise of a standard VHS tape was in the frequency range
of the SVHS signal, distorting it.  
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