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From: larson@sri-unix.ARPA (Alan Larson)
Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Consumer-Grade Single-Frame VTR's
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 22:53:13 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 22:53:13 1987
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In article <180@cerebus.UUCP>, ronc@cerebus.UUCP (sysadm) writes:
> Not having the slightest interest in VHS, and being somewhat cautious
> about "S-VHS" after JVC pawned off a bandwidth DECREASE as "High Quality",
> (Gawd, I'd like to hire their marketing department!) I didn't pay much
> attention to press releases and netnews articles on this product.  Any
> rumors on a VHS editing deck, or is that even *possible* given the kludgy
> transport mechanism?

  It looks like you have little experience with VHS.  Have you ever taken
one apart and looked inside?  The transport mechanism is beautifully simple.
There should be no trouble with building such a machine for editing.
(I still would not want to recommend editing on a 1/2 inch machine.)

   Why do you claim that HQ is a bandwidth decrease?  While I would agree
that the increase in bandwidth is miniscule, if any, there is nothing I
have seen to indicate that there is a decrease in bandwidth.

  As for marketing departments, they seem almost identical with Sony.
Both sides of the VHS-C vs 8mm advertising looks more like a political
smear campaign.  No information, just lots of dis-information.

	Alan