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- From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
- Subject: Re: 8mm or hi8 for computer a
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.022612.22964@unet.net.com>
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- References: <1992Nov17.4246.19283@dosgate> <1992Nov17.162639.4466@spcvxb.spc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:26:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.162639.4466@spcvxb.spc.edu> killeen@spcvxb.spc.edu (Jeff Killeen) writes:
- - In article <1992Nov17.4246.19283@dosgate>, tony.camara@canrem.com (tony camara) writes:
- - > Yes you should see a difference between 8mm and hi 8 . Why not go s-vhs
- - > you will be much better off in the long run .
- -
- - The quality of Hi8mm is better than that of 8mm
- -
- - VHS S-VHS 8mm Hi8mm
- - ------ ------ ------ ------
- - CHROMINANCE 629kHz 629kHz 743kHz 743kHz
- - LUMINANCE 1.0MHz 1.6MHz 1.2MHz 2.0MHz
- -
- - As you can see 8mm has more signal frequency deviation than VHS and Hi8mm has
- - more than S-VHS. In theory more signal frequency deviation means a better
- - image.
-
-
- This is based on mistaken assumptions.
-
- The assumption that increasing the deviation of the signal increases
- the quality of the resulting image is incorrect. Increasing the
- deviation without providing adequate channel bandwidth for the
- sidebands (yes, FM has them too), will provide degraded performance.
- If the tape technology does not provide a reasonably flat frequency
- response and adequate signal/noise performance over that range, the
- resulting signal quality of the image will be degraded.
-
- Given flat frequency response, and the ability to provide the proper
- channel bandwidth while maintaining sufficient signal/noise ratios in
- the total channel, a wider deviation can improve the results.
-
- Increasing the bandwidth without regard to the rest of the system
- can increase the noise power, decreasing s/n, and degrading results.
- Similarly, decreasing the bandwidth to decrease noise power can
- truncate some of the sideband energy of the signal, causing loss of
- high frequency components, particularly in edge transitions of video.
-
-
- Similarly, the increased carrier center frequency of the chroma
- color-under carrier cannot be any proof of better performance.
-
- Alan
-