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From: rivers@seismo.UUCP (Wilmer Rivers)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: VCR + color monitor feedback wanted
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 17:41:53 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 17:41:53 1984
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Sorry to post this, but my mail went undelivered. I have a 25"
color monitor (Pioneer brand, manufactured by NEC) and use a
VCR for a tuner. It has been my experience with each of my 3
VCR's (all near top of the line for their generation, all having
electronic tuners, and all made by Matsushita) that their tuners
were as good as, or better than, the tuners on any TV set I owned.
This is especially true of the newest one, which has digital tuning.
I endorse the approach of using the VCR's tuner for reception and
viewing the "video out" on a monitor. Converting from video to RF
in the VCR and then back to video in a receiver's tuner is in fact
noisier. There's no point in having 2 tuners and always leaving one
of them set on channel 3; it just degrades the signal quality.