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- From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: What tape do we have here?
- Message-ID: <4834@vidiot.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 05:34:06 GMT
- References: <9301210544.AA23473@heartland.bradley.edu> <4819@vidiot.UUCP> <1025@rook.ukc.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
- Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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- In article <1025@rook.ukc.ac.uk> mre@ukc.ac.uk (Mike) writes:
- <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.
-
- It was about a Hi-8 recording, but I believe that the original poster was
- trying to play a Hi-8 PAL tape in a Hi-8 NTSC machine. Therein lies the
- problem.
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