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From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: VHS Hi-Fi - Are you really there?
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Date: Fri, 24-Aug-84 11:15:49 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 24 11:15:49 1984
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It seems to be the general concensus on the net that the mass market
enthusiast magazines (e.g., Stereo Review, High Fidelity, Video, etc)
always tend to hype and glorify their products, seldom saying anything
bad with them.I'm not sure I fully go along with this, but it does seem more 
true lately.
In any event I am beginning to feel uneasy about VHS Hi-Fi. The magazines
describe the equipment as great, but they do not rave. They admit it is not
available. They hint that the software is not available because of
troubles in duplication. Video this month even passed on the untested
statement that Hitachi machines had trouble playing prerecorded tapes.
All these things we are assured, will be fixed instantly. Yet this goes on
month after month. Beta Hi-Fi has been successful with no problems I have
heard of, for over a year and a half.
Could it be that this time it was too hard to get around the Sony patents?
Sure would be awful if VHS had to adapt the Sony system.
Dick Grantges    hound!rfg   Hoping Sony wins in spite of itself