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Captain Ned wrote:You're not far wrong. The main 2 audiophile mags (Stereophile and The Absolute Sound) both reviewed Hi-Fi VCRs back in the mid-late 1980s and loved the sound, but eventually came to the conclusion that the physical tape dynamics (narrow tape, rapidly spinning head) meant that tape life was abysmal.
just brew it! wrote:IIRC it wasn't digital; I believe it recorded an analog frequency modulated carrier wave on the tape alongside the video track. No error correction obviously, so imperfections in the tape could cause dropouts. But on a new tape it did indeed sound quite good.
morphine wrote:"I absolutely love handling tapes." -- Nobody.
Looking for Knowledge wrote:When drunk.....
I want to have sex, but find I am more likely to be shot down than when I am sober.
jackbomb wrote:Free Man in Paris is a great song.
jackbomb wrote:Most movies on VHS had hifi stereo tracks, at least in the 90s. Some even had Dolby Surround embedded in the stereo track. They did sound good, but laserdisc always seemed to have a lot more low frequency oomph.
Free Man in Paris is a great song.
just brew it! wrote:jackbomb wrote:Free Man in Paris is a great song.
I agree. Were you listening to the original Joni Mitchell version, or someone else's cover version?
jackbomb wrote:just brew it! wrote:jackbomb wrote:Free Man in Paris is a great song.
I agree. Were you listening to the original Joni Mitchell version, or someone else's cover version?
I was just listening to the original Joni Mitchell version that the OP was playing in the video. Definitely my preferred version. I'll have to find my copy of Court and Spark when I get home from work.
TheEmrys wrote:There was a video making the rounds a month or so ago HD VHS footage of NYC. Let me see... Yeah, here it is.
https://petapixel.com/2017/04/10/hd-video-new-york-city-1993-hard-fathom/
There are two YouTube videos embedded. One is the video, and another is about HD VHS itself.
just brew it! wrote:Ahh, OK. I didn't realize it was in the video, as I hadn't watched the video yet. The title cut and "Raised on Robbery" are great songs too.
Captain Ned wrote:just brew it! wrote:Ahh, OK. I didn't realize it was in the video, as I hadn't watched the video yet. The title cut and "Raised on Robbery" are great songs too.
Just beware that if you have the original CD version of "Court and Spark", you have one of the most abysmal CD transfers ever. Quant noise is everywhere (What? We can't run it into the red on digital??). Overplayed original vinyl is better than the original CD version.
Captain Ned wrote:Just beware that if you have the original CD version of "Court and Spark", you have one of the most abysmal CD transfers ever.
TheEmrys wrote:
I actually preferred our RCA Videodisc to our VHS VCR. It had stereo output, but the picture quality was awfully clear and never got worse.
BIF wrote:Yeah, I think I'll pass.
I got rid of a dreadful tape-eating VHS machine many years ago and then decided just not to buy another one. I never missed it.
Long before that, I used to record radio programs with high capacity VHS tapes. Now I stream better content in podcast format.
I will NEVER miss tape devices. Ever. Good riddance.