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From: andrew@calvin.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Re: Video Toaster and TBC question
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In article <1991Jun4.172727.1889@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
>The TBC is a Time Base Corrector which makes sure you have very stable
>correct synch signals for the video. Tape decks have variations due to
>mechanical stuff. The TBC eliminates this.

If I am not mistaken, a tape deck requires the feature of an "external
sync in" in order to work with a TBC.  Most of your home tape
recorders, and the cheap ones at the video stores, do not have this
feature.  Some of the newest models of high-end decks have built-in
TBC's, but they are expensive.

-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Department of Communications, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.doc.CA
                    "The interface IS the program."