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From: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: copying rented videocassettes
Message-ID: <715@ttidcb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 12:35:11 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 12 12:35:11 1986
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References: <161@ides.UUCP> <785@ihu1g.UUCP> <354@ihlpf.UUCP> <6765@tektronix.UUCP>
Reply-To: speaker@ttidcb.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker)
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In article <6765@tektronix.UUCP> billk@tektronix.UUCP (Bill Kenworthy) writes:
>In article <354@ihlpf.UUCP>, heneghan@ihlpf.UUCP (Heneghan) writes:
>> 				. 
>> > Almost everything that comes out on videocassette will be available on HBO,
>> > etc., within a year.  If you've got cable, you might just want to wait
>> > until they broadcast the movie you want; you'll usually get a better
>> > copy that way.
>> >			Bob Fishell
>Not always.  It depends on the quality of the signal you get on the cable.
>If the cable signal is noisy, if the solid colors (i.e. blue) have little
>black noise dots or whatever - as on my cable system--  then I'd rather stick
>with the VCR.  I also get stereo that way.  HBO is currently not in stereo.
>They don't send it out in stereo from New York.  Currently, only Movie Channel
>has stereo.
>

Yes, my cable signal looks like it has been through the GI track of a 3
month old baby--several times.  By the time it has gone through umpteen
repeaters, jillions of taps, and 50 miles of aged cable, it looks pretty bad.

>> 
>> An alternative would be to find a video rental store that doesn't do a
>> lot of volume, especially if you have a hifi deck and want to tape in
>> hifi.
>> 						Joe Heneghan
>And preferably in Beta Hi-Fi.  Less time base errors.  Particularly noticeable
>on big screens.

Huh?  Why does Beta Hi-Fi have less time base errors?  (I am a Beta fan, but
don't understand.)

--Kne