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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: counters on VCRS
Message-ID: <252@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 23:45:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 23:45:14 1985
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <347@mit-vax.UUCP> csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) writes:
>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 :-).

I would rather settle for 1" C format with SMPTE time code.  Why, because
of the God awful problem with alignment that causes the color differences
that can be seen every 17 lines (per field), when mis-adjusted and bright
red.  With 1" C, that problem doesn't exist and it is becoming the new
standard of the TV industry.
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