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VHS Renaissance

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jedrider

I am getting VHS videos at 50 cents a piece at my thrift store. It is sort of a renaissance, for me, of movie watching (mostly older movies, though, but in color!)

Had an interesting experience with non-audiophiles: They can't stand the audio quality, aka noise pulses, sort of like listening to vinyl with ticks and pops.

It doesn't bother me one bit, though.

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RE: VHS Renaissance - bassbinotoko 00:04:35 07/12/13 (0)
The sound quality ought to be very good, if the tapes are Hi-Fi and the deck is working properly. I did own a Zenith VCR that made annoying purring sounds... it got stolen before I got around to RMAing it. Subsequent VCRs sounded fine, and I recorded a bunch of live DJ sets on them since I had nothing else that could record 6 hours uninterrupted.

I've been looking out for certain titles on VHS where the DVD (and Blu-ray) versions had the soundtracks altered because someone was too cheap to license the original music. My hope would be to add a PCM stereo track to an mkv taken from the DVD or Blu-ray, but I expect there'd be problems with synch.

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