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From: koreth@panarthea.sun.com (Steven Grimm)
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Subject: Hole-drilling (was Re: S-VHS this generation's Beta?)
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Date: 13 Jul 89 16:37:29 GMT
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I have tried drilling holes in a few VHS tapes.  What I found was that in
SP mode, they worked great; I couldn't tell the difference between the drilled
tapes and a true S-VHS tape.  When I switched to EP, however, there was
definitely a difference: the drilled tapes produced a VERY noisy picture,
full of little horizontal line segments.  They were extremely distracting.

Since most of my S-VHS recording is in EP mode (I don't get good enough
reception for SP to do me much good, and besides I'd spend a fortune on
tapes with all the programs I archive) I'm continuing to buy S-VHS tapes.

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