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Subject: Re: audio comparison of VCR formats
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 21:24:00 EST
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>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?

Well, Sony makes a unit called the PCM-1, which retails for about $1700.
It claims (or at least, the people I've talked to claim) it will place
PCM encoded stereo on a normal VCR (i.e., off the shelf VHS)

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