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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
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Subject: Re: Comments on recent news
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 16:32:07 EDT
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In article <6529@sun.uucp> mwicks@sun.uucp (Michael Wicks) writes:
>  If HQ is a "gimmick", then it's a pretty good one as I've had VCR's with
>  (Emerson VHS HI-FI Stereo VCR), and without (HITACHI VHS Stereo w/ Dolby
>  and HQ) and the HQ DEFINITELY improves the picture quality by a factor of
>  20.

Whether HQ is an improvement is largely a matter of taste.  If you look
closely at the picture from your two decks, assuming there's nothing wrong
with your Emerson (a questionable brand, in my opinion) you would see that
although the signal from the non-HQ deck has more noise, it also contains
more picture information.  HQ trades off video bandwidth for noise reduction.
Some people find the effect pleasing, others do not.


				Ron
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