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From: howard@amdahl.UUCP (Howard C. Simonson)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Stereo vs. Hi-Fi\
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 03:55:41 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  1 03:55:41 1985
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> ...
> Thus we have a situation where extra audio heads are placed on the video
> drum to make VHS HiFi.  So, an n-head Beta HiFi machine is potentially
> equivalent to an (n+2)-head VHS HiFi machine, and I wonder how many people
> know that.
> 
> Hope this makes things clearer, without my being wrong!
> 
> 				Jim Heliotis
> 				{allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jeh
> 				rocksvax!ritcv!jeh
> 				ritcv!jeh@Rochester

Well, that had to be about one of most concise and well written explanations
of the whole shebang I have read in a while.  And from my alma matter no less.
Tell me one thing though, does the tape speed have any bearing on
audio fidelity?
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