Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC Newsgroups: net.video Subject: re: Beta Hi-Fi Problem/Question Message-ID: <6325@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 02:07:35 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6325 Posted: Mon Mar 26 02:07:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 01:19:45 EST Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 17 brl-vgr!wmartin: > My first guess would simply be that a non-Beta-Hi-Fi version of the > tape got labelled or boxed as a Beta-Hi-Fi version. Is there some > reason to think that the problem is more complex than that? Well, yes there is. Since BHF tapes also carry a regular mono track so that they can be played on regular Beta machines (the BHF also records a mono track in addition to stereo tracks), there is no need to have separate BHF and non-BHF editions of any given movie. See my previous message for an elaboration. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard) UUCP: (decvax!decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian) ARPA: (decwrl!rhea!akov68!boyajian@Shasta)