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From: jim@grkermit.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Problem Recording Star Wars
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Date: Mon, 22-Aug-83 08:39:55 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 22 08:39:55 1983
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	Actually you did commit a crime, if you read the
 HBO and Showtime trailers they flash once a day, but
 the reason your recorder did not sync up to what you
 recorded was that Showtime broadcast Star Wars with
 a very tiny amount of sync in the vertical interval.
 Thus on a second generation tape on a vcr, the pulse
 was not enough for the tv to lock up to.
	This is also the way they make most tapes you buy
 in the stores, so you can't dupe them. The other way
 is by putting a video image serial number either on
 the very edge of the screen or in the sync interval.