Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf 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 Lines: 25 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 "The Church of Fred has yet to come under attack. No one knows about it." -Rev. Wang Zeep