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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: S-VHS this generation's Beta?
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Date: 12 Jul 89 19:54:22 GMT
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In article <3184@wpi.wpi.edu> tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy) writes:
|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.  

Yes, let me tell you what I did. When I first got my S-VHS VCR, I
bought two of every different kind of S-VHS tape I could find for
comparison purposes. It ended up that there didn't seem to be a lot of
differences visible to my eye. Then I tried drilling BASF regular VHS.
That worked out ok and has been my standard medium since. I have maybe
3 dozen trouble free recordings now. 

How many tapes did you try and what brand was it?
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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
"The government is not your mother."