Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ables From: ables@ut-ngp.UUCP (King Ables) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: If one is good, two must be better! Message-ID: <944@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Wed, 19-Sep-84 11:42:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.944 Posted: Wed Sep 19 11:42:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 03:08:44 EDT References: <4681@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 33 Re: Buying 2 VCRs If you're going to buy two, do get one fancy and one very base one. I owned two VHS VCRs for a while. I found that I'm picky enough about my picture that even copying it once degrades the picture enough that I wasn't pleased. However, I also use the 6 hour speed because I'm too cheap to use any other. A one-time recording at SLP (6hr) is fine for me, but a copy came out a little grainy. I also figured out that I didn't use it to copy nearly as much as I would have thought (I also own two audio cassette decks and copy with them a lot). But that may just be me, not you. The one really useful thing I can say is I would not buy one Beta and one VHS. On the surface, it sounds logical, you can play any kind of tape from someone else, if you need it in a different form you can copy it off, it'll be great, right? Maybe. I think it will invariably happen that you have something on VHS that you want to copy onto another VHS (thus requiring 2 generations of copy rather than one, degrading the picture even more). If you plan things right you can get around this. If you tape a football game and want it on VHS w/o ads, tape it on Beta first and then edit it onto VHS. But the unforseen can still happen. The other problem is you have to keep twice as many tapes lying around. Well, maybe not TWICE if you consider one of them to be your major VCR then you keep more of those, I guess. It just seems like a lot of trouble considering how widespread both formats are, I don't think there's that much advantage to having both. However, my needs/opinions may not be the same as yours, so consider the source. From someone who used to own 2 and now owns 1: -King ARPA:ables@ut-ngp UUCP:{ctvax,ihnp4,kpno,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ables