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From: custead@sask.UUCP (Der cuss)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Question about Stereo and HI FI VCRs
Message-ID: <161@sask.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 18:13:40 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 18:13:40 1985
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>> VHS detracters say VHS HIFI tapes can't be played
>> on older machines without degredation of the video component.  I don't know
>> if this is true, or just SONY propaganda.

I wouldn't worry about it!
The other night I rented two VHS tapes: one HI-FI, one not.  My machine
is not HI-FI.  The HI-FI tape had far better video quality.  (It was new
in the store).  If there is theoretical degradation of the video component,
it is probably not discernible to the viewer.  In my case the degradation
of the tape which had been rented many, many times far swamped any effect
of whether HI-FI was present or not.
(What was interesting was that the HI-FI tape was not Stereo,  for an
obvious reason: the movie had not been recorded in stereo to begin with.)

					L. R. Custead
					Department of babbling about video
					Univ of Sask