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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2013 23:52:33 GMT -5
Only cause Hermit asked for a VCR thread, here it is, discuss...
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Post by douglasconnection on Dec 15, 2013 8:17:37 GMT -5
I still have 2 Sony Betamax SL HF 300 players from back in the day. Have not played them for several years. Don't know how many movies I copied off onto blank tapes back then. They are still packed away in storage. One of these days, when I get a chance, need to fire one up and see if the old movies will still play!
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Post by tonyb on Dec 15, 2013 11:38:08 GMT -5
Set them up at 100 yards and use as target practice. Nice cabinet btw.....should house something more valuable.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2013 11:52:31 GMT -5
I used to have a VCR...until the transport got stuck in the down position. I didn't replace it...only had 5 tapes so wasn't a big dealio. Now it's Blu-Ray and DVD. VHS is dead !
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Post by douglasconnection on Dec 15, 2013 14:32:15 GMT -5
Somewhere I have a mix tape I made using the HF tracks on the Beta tape as audio tracks for a Christmas party I had many years ago. The HF tracks really had pretty good sound, and if I remember rightly I was able to get 4 hours of music on that tape. Because the Hi Fi audio heads were on the drum, the effective tape speed was in the neighborhood of 250 ips, which is many times the fast speed of your typical old reel to reel recorder at 15 ips. This really gave me good recordings of some of the vinyl and some CD's. Great for a party, so I did not have to be changing records and /or CD's all night.
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Post by tonyb on Dec 16, 2013 0:16:40 GMT -5
They used reel to reel before digital.
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Post by douglasconnection on Dec 16, 2013 11:08:39 GMT -5
Maybe it was the videos that were shot on VHS. I'm telling you, the Foo Fighters did something with VHS recently, and they weren't being used for target practice. Take a look at this. Look at the middle of page 29, HiFi stereo video cassette. It might be what you have heard about.
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Post by B Run on Dec 16, 2013 23:44:46 GMT -5
What's a VCR? ; )
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Post by B Run on Dec 17, 2013 1:08:27 GMT -5
Damn, I was just joking about VCR's but I never really messed with them and had a dvd player since I was like 10. Sounds like a pain in the ass though glad I missed out haha.
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Post by douglasconnection on Dec 17, 2013 20:48:22 GMT -5
Someone told me once that TV's used to be like that. You actually had to get up out of your seat and walk over to the TV to change the channel. Can you imagine? How archaic! I saw TV for the first time at age 5. We had 4 channels, and yes, you had to get up to change the channel, adjust the volume, turn it on and off. Sometimes I wonder if I'd be in better shape it was still the same!
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Post by trav0810 on Dec 17, 2013 21:38:05 GMT -5
Didn't recording studios use VHS to record audio until they went digital? I watched an awesome documentary called Sound City that David Grohl directed. David ended up buying the equipment from the dying studio for his own use. I thought he said it used VHS for recording. In the lat 80's, early 90's they would use an 8-Track recording system that recorded onto high-fi VHS tapes. I don't know if this was the method of BIG studios like RCA or Sony, but I knew some people that had demo's made for their bands and that was part of the process. If I remember correctly, they would then record from the VHS to a DAT and then burn the Tapes or CD's off of that.
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Post by disneyjoe7 on Dec 18, 2013 23:19:16 GMT -5
None is found in my house.... What is a VCR "Verynice CaR"?
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Post by tonyb on Dec 19, 2013 0:27:00 GMT -5
Very Crazy Redneck
Kidding.....or maybe not, I dunno yet. LOL
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Post by p85 on Dec 20, 2013 16:32:01 GMT -5
I have a Sony ES unit that converts analog to PCM that is recorded to VCR tape and then back out. I don't know why. I used to record Nova and shows like that for my son to watch when he was a kid. Now he's a software engineer making so much money I can't count that high. VCRs are the reason he learnt a lot.
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