Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!a.bbn.com!RSHAPIRO From: RSHAPIRO@A.BBN.COM (Richard Shapiro) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: audio comparison of VCR formats Message-ID: <8603171353.AA09518@seismo.CSS.GOV> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 08:52:28 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.8603171353.AA09518 Posted: Mon Mar 17 08:52:28 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 00:53:14 EST References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 20 The recent Pioneer SuperBeta (roughly equivalent to the Sony SLHF-400) is reported by VIDEO magazine to be made by Sony. I don't know if Pioneer makes any other Beta's (I've never heard of any); and I don't know how reliable VIDEO is in this regard. But the rumor, at least, is that at least one Pioneer Beta is a Sony by another name. The Sony SuperBeta I recently bought has provisions for recording digital sound, as produced by a PCM device. I don't know anything about this technonlogy (CD's use pulse-coded modulation, right?) but I assume it's significantly better than VHS or Beta HiFi audio. My question is, are ?Pulse Code Modulators (is this what they're called?) available at the consumer level? Who makes them and what do they cost? Anyone done any testing on this kind of audio (no video -- the users manual on the Sony says that entire width of the tape is used for audio in this mode) recording on a VCR? Thanks for any information, Richard Shapiro -------