Video Asylum

Posted by stan2 (A) on July 26, 2004 at 14:16:37

In Reply to: VCR recording Audio posted by recruitingcommunists@hotmail.com on July 24, 2004 at 13:34:21:

when i bought my first vcr, yrs ago, i heard then that hi-fi vcr is far better than other tape recording. reason is that it lays the sound down on the bias (diagonal) across entire tape width, so there's much more tape to work with than cassette. i can't recall the tech info from that far back in time ( the '80's..) but the comparison was as if you could record on cassette at many times the speed that cassette actually records at. as i recall it's because the fast spinning heads have an effect similar to pulling tape thru a cassette at a hi rate, if you get that picture. this gets to another of your questions - recording speed. i think you're right; faster is better. hope someone else can fill in the rest for you. hifi vcr makes v. good sound recordings, from what i've heard. on the other hand, i think i was told that non-hifi vcr just puts the sound track down on a portion of the vhs tape - about the same as a cassette. i probably have this somewhat wrong; i'm no expert.