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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: "rectified video"
Message-ID: <470@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 20:50:48 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.470
Posted: Sun Dec 15 20:50:48 1985
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <576@ttidcb.UUCP> speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) writes:
>OK Mr. Video, the real or substitute, on all of the new superBeta decks
>that I have seen there is an "edit" switch which should be placed into
>"edit" position on the playback machine when copying tapes from one
>machine to another.  My owners manuals say, in the finest pigeon Japaneese,
>that normally the video signal is "rectified" but that this switch turns
>of this rectification for better copies.
>
>Huh?
>
>When I flip the switch, the change is very subtle, but definite.  Some 
>edge peakiness seems to disappear.  Does this "rectification" cause more
>video amp ringing?  
>
>Care to share any light on this?  

Huh! is right.  A video signal is never 'rectified', at least not how I
know the word rectified.

From what I have heard about the switch that has been added, it is supposed
to be for playing non-SuperBeta tapes.  Now, if your machine has both an
'edit' switch and a 'normal/SuperBeta' switch, then I am at a loss.  We are
then going to need an answer from another owner of a SuperBeta machine.

What I like are good VHS questions.
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