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- From: babu@wpi.WPI.EDU (Babu Gopalakrishnan)
- Newsgroups: rec.travel
- Subject: Re: Customs (bringing thing out and into the US)
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 16:54:15 GMT
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- References: <1992Nov16.052107.27738@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1e7ftbINNe37@bigboote.WPI.EDU> <1992Nov20.003309.26206@opencon.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.003309.26206@opencon.com> giand@opencon.com (Deepak S. Gianchandani) writes:
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- >> since you use 110 volts, NTSC, and different VCR tape
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >> speeds here.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^
- > ( Sorry to waste Bandwidth, I should ignore this, but I can't.)
- >
- > What are you talking about, Ofcourse if the DAMMED system is
- >different it would have different speeds, but the VHS Tapes
- >are the same and can be interchanged -- i.e. What is recorded
- >on it might not be viewable back on your system (NTSC) but the
- >physical tape is the SAME. Make sure you know what you are talking
- >about before you post it (Yes, I know there are VHS tapes they say E
- >for European and T for NTSC, but the actual physical frame of the tape
- >is VHS and is standard throughout the world).
- >
-
- of course the VHS frame is the same and the material used
- to make the tape is the same and all that. But the speeds
- at which the tape runs is different! I purchased a VHS blank
- tape in the US many years ago, and it was rated for 120 minutes.
- Recording PAL stuff on it, I got a good 3 hours + out of it.
- Also if you play an NTSC tape in a PAL player, and are lukcy
- enough to hear some audio at least, the speed of the audio
- will be very warped.
-
- BABU
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