Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: AM/FM XX VHS vs DCC / MINIDISK I would like to add a new dimension to the DCC vs minidisk debate. This 'war' has been compared to the VHS v Betamax shootout back in the 80's. In my opinion, VHS deserves a shot in this new 90's techno-digital battle too, This together. standard has far greater striking force than both the DCC and minidisk put Some new video recorders like the Philips Vr522 comes with something called NICAM HiFi stereo. digital stereo sound! In other words you will be able to record and playback These new Philips videos also has a new thing called audio longplay', In this mode the VCR runs at half the speed without any loss in sound quality, On a standard E-240 cassette you may record no less than 8 hours continous music! Compared to the 1,5 on DCC and 1,25 on the sony Mini- disk. I managed to record 7 cd's on an E-180 cassette (6 hrs.). You probably think it must be hell finding a particular song on such a video- cassette. That's not the case. It's in fact quite easy, While you are recording you just press the 'write' button on you remote control between each song, and the VCR will create an index mark. These index-marks will be used in the future to track a particular song. With index marks + the turbo drive fast forward, it'll take you approx. cassette, 1 minute to find a song anywhere on the Fiddling through a cd-collection is hard work compared to this.
