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From: don@oakhill.UUCP (Don Weiss)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: VCR + color monitor feedback wanted
Message-ID: <261@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 13:55:24 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 13:55:24 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 01:49:31 EST
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Here are some points to ponder when considering a VCR + monitor, as opposed
to a VCR + tuner/monitor, approach.

1. In my experience, a direct (no mod/demod) hookup is better than the RF
   feed from the VCR, but just BARELY.
2. You might wish to watch one program while you tape another.  This implies
   a tuner/monitor (these of course are at least as widely available as
   straight monitors).
3. Once again in my experience, my monitor receiver combos (built by Sharp
   for Montgomery Wards) have built-in tuners which produce a substantially
   quieter (less grainy) picture than the tuner from either of my VCRs
   (a middle-of-the line Quasar and a top-of-the-line GE, both made by
   Matsushita).  The impact of this is that when I want to do any critical
   taping off the air, I route the demodulated video from the RECEIVER to
   the VCR, rather than the other way around.
4. If you buy a combo tuner/monitor (and I guess I'm recommending it!), you
   might investigate exactly what audio and video signals go into it and
   come out of it in exactly what operating modes.  For instance, when I
   put my tuner/monitor in 'direct video' mode, it for some reason disables
   the tuner, so I can't get the tuner audio/video outputs at the same time
   I want to monitor composite video input.  Not hardly civilized behavior,
   but I suspect the internal switching (a quad CMOS transmission gate!)
   may not have had enough isolation between video sources to allow the
   more logical operation.
  
   Yet another aspect is: what kind of audio outputs does the tuner/monitor
   have?  Stereo, or stereo ready?  Outputs which follow the volume control
   or are independent? (both of these are handy.)

--Living inside of a little glass room..........Don Weiss