Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/2/84; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!seismo!rivers From: rivers@seismo.UUCP (Wilmer Rivers) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: VCR + color monitor feedback wanted Message-ID: <5977@seismo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 17:41:53 EST Article-I.D.: seismo.5977 Posted: Fri Dec 7 17:41:53 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 02:40:09 EST References: <1600001@hpcnoe.UUCP> Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 13 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.