I was always suspicious that the sound track on a factory recorded VHS movie (when new) was every bit as good as the same movie on DVD-there is a reason for that.;-)
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In Reply to: Re: Deathe Of The Tape? posted by Braxus on May 8, 2007 at 18:50:04:
There is an engineer on another audio forum who turned me onto this. Professional S-VHS machines are now available on ebay for a couple of hundred or less (originally, many of them approached $10,000). These were machines like the Panasonic AG-7500A that were used for record/editing at TV stations and the like. Well, ignore their virtues with regard to picture for a moment. Read the audio specs for HD recording in this format. They are nearly flawless with no hiss/distortion. I bought one of these machine (*groans*, yet another format) and some sealed S-VHS tapes. I'm still playing with this format, but the sound is absolutely spectacular-enough so that I'm looking at my Tandberg 9241 R2R with a jaundiced eye.I was always suspicious that the sound track on a factory recorded VHS movie (when new) was every bit as good as the same movie on DVD-there is a reason for that.;-)
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