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- From: toten@bourbon.ee.tulane.edu (Derek Toten)
- Subject: Re: Great Simpsons Quote from 11/3/92 episode
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.160316.7723@cs.tulane.edu>
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- Organization: E.E. Dept., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 16:03:16 GMT
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- >
- >I thought that betaCam was one of the highest formats available and is
- >used for television! Am I wrong?? Have I been mislead? Am I part of a
- >consumer trap fooling us citizens into thinking that betacam is the
- >highest Television grade of recording system available?
- >
- >Cheers,
- >Grant
- >
- BetaCam, or more properly, High Speed Beta, has almost no
- relationship with the Betamax format used by consumers. In fact,
- all they share is the physical tape itself. The information encoded
- on that tape is quite diferent between the two formats.
- As for quality, Betamax is, in general, a better format than VHS.
- We're not talking a magnitude of difference here, but enough to make a
- difference to a videophile. BetaCam, a professional television
- production format, is higly superior to certain other profesisonal
- tape formats such as 3/4" Umatic and Hi8, but it pales next to M2,
- D2 or even 1". It is, generally, cheaper than those better systems,
- however, and the results are most acceptable, so yes, it is very
- common, especially in local television news departments.
-
- Derek
-
- Derek Toten
-