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From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: VHS HiFi
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Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 15:24:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  8 15:24:27 1986
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Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
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Playing with my friend's VHS HiFi, I notice that it does not automatically
detect if a tape is recorded in HiFi mode or conventional only, you must
manually select which soundtrack to use.  All (4) of my beta HiFi decks,
even the el cheapo, detects and automatically switches to HiFi mode if the
carrier is detected.  Is this manual stuff a common thing to VHS, or only
some decks?  It should be possible to detect carrier in the audio scanning
head's output, just like a beta deck.  Why require manual switching?

(Deck was TEAC "equivalent" to JVC 566.)

--Kne