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- From: T.G.Nattress@newcastle.ac.uk (Graeme Nattress)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Playing S-VHS videotape on VHS equipment
- Message-ID: <By6Dp3.4z2@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 15:29:26 GMT
- References: <9211210801.AA18381@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
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- GNICK@RCHVMP3.VNET.IBM.COM writes:
-
- >If I have a source videotape that was recorded in S-VHS format, and I
- >play it back on various combinations of equipment, what will be the
- >resulting quality (relative or absolute) of the image on the monitor?
- >Could someone fill in the right-hand column of the chart below giving
- >combinations of playback equipment (remember: the source videotape is
- >S-VHS). Are there any combinations that will not work with a S-VHS tape?
- >(Assume cabling is correct and not a detractor.)
-
- >+==========+==========+=================================================
- >| Playback | Playback | Resulting Image Quality, Compatibility, Etc.
- >| VCR | Monitor |
- >+==========+==========+=================================================
- >|S-VHS |S-Video | Super! (this combination is what the high price
- >| | | really pays for)
- >+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
- >|S-VHS |Standard | Slightly negligibly worse than above. Not
- >| |newer TV | really noticible.
- >| |using RCA |
- >| |Video In |
- >+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
- >|S-VHS |Standard | Re drops to about 320 is lines, still better
- >| |older TV | than VHS rea though. Colour looks better
- >| |using An- | than VHS.
- >| |tenna In |
- >+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
- >|VHS |Standard | S-VHS tape won't work on a VHS VCR
- >| |newer TV |
- >| |using RCA |
- >| |Video In |
- >+----------+----------+-------------------------------------------------
- >|VHS |Standard | ditto
- >| |older TV |
- >| |using An- |
- >| |tenna In |
- >+==========+==========+=================================================
-
- BTW, In good ol' PAL land I use a SVHS VCR to a compter monitor with both Y/C
- separate ( s ) inputs and composite and there aint much difference between
- them.
-
- Graeme
-
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