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- From: mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: What tape do we have here?
- Message-ID: <1025@rook.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:22:29 GMT
- References: <9301210544.AA23473@heartland.bradley.edu> <4819@vidiot.UUCP>
- Reply-To: mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike)
- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <4819@vidiot.UUCP> brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
- >In article <9301210544.AA23473@heartland.bradley.edu> tquinn@heartland.bradley.edu writes:
-
- [...]
-
- ><1a. Am I correct that it was likely shot in the wrong format?
- >
- >Not a wrong format, as viewed from the French point-of-view. But, it was
- >probably shot in PAL (yes, France is SECAM, but I understand that video tapes
- >are recorded using PAL).
-
- This is true, but a little misleading.
-
- Hi-8 and S-VHS formats do NOT have a SECAM variant. The signal is
- transcoded to PAL on record and back to SECAM on replay. The tapes
- ARE therefore interchangeable.
-
- However, 8mm and VHS (the low quality versions of Hi-8 and S-VHS) DO
- have a SECAM variant and these tapes are NOT interchangeable between
- SECAM and PAL machines.
-
- Since the original question was about a Hi-8 recording, the original
- answer was correct, but unfortunately the poster of the reply
- editted out the tape-type information. Hopefully this posting
- clears up any possible confusion.
-
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- Mike Ellis, Darwin College, The University, Canterbury, Kent, England, CT2 7NY.
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