Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!fortune!dove From: dove@fortune.UUCP (Michael Dove) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Re: vcr to vcr recording Message-ID: <5357@fortune.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 16:24:39 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.5357 Posted: Thu Jul 11 16:24:39 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 09:12:09 EDT References: <279@hrpd3.UUCP> Organization: Fortune Systems, Redwood City, CA Lines: 26 > I have been told recently that recording done from one vcr to > another using tv output (using coax cable) is better than the > recording done with using audio and vedio outputs. This seems > hard to understand because using tv signal, two levels of > transformation is done - one to covert to tv signal in playing > vcr and second to decode in the recording vcr. I have not tried > it myself. Does anyone have experience or thoughts on it. > I have had the same experience. Once while trying to make a copy of a movie that supposedly was protected yielded garbage when recorded with the audio and video jacks. "So it is protected, huh!", I said. Well then I tried to record through a coax cable thorough the tv output and antenna in jack. Whalla, it woiked! Picture quality was not as high, but it was there, and good enough for me. -- /*****************************************\ * *| |* Michael Dove *| |* Forutne Systems Corporation *| |* {ihnp4, ucbvax!dual}!fortune!dove *| |* *| \*****************************************/