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From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters on VCRS
Message-ID: <347@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jul-85 16:17:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.347
Posted: Wed Jul 10 16:17:59 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 11:57:12 EDT
References: <433@zinfandel.UUCP> <1346@hammer.UUCP> <174@tekcrl.UUCP> <334@varian.UUCP> <1369@hammer.UUCP>
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Summary: 

In article <1369@hammer.UUCP> seifert@hammer.UUCP (Snoopy) writes:
>>> >the spool rpms change.  *Real* VCRs, like the Sony SL-2700, run
>>> >the tape counter off the signals recorded on the tape.  The tape
>>> >counter reads in hours/minutes/seconds, and is *correct*.  I doubt
>>> >if any VHS machines do this, since the tape has to come off the
>>> >head for fast-wind, and you couldn't pick up the timing signals.

>Hate to break this to you, but the SL-2700 has indexes IN ADDITION TO
>the correct counter.  Naaah  Naaah!
>Okay, just to be fair, there *is* a feature that the 2700 lacks.
>It doesn't run UNIX.  (Of course it's rather doubtful that any
>VHS models do either!)
>Snoopy

Hate to break it to you, but cassette is a big lose in bandwidth anyway.
Why settle for anything less than 2 inch broadcast quality with a
TIMECODING track that can be fed to your 68000 based computer that DOES
RUN UNIX. Seriously, I can't stand snobs :-).

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
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