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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: vcr to vcr recording
Message-ID: <253@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 23:47:41 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 12 23:47:41 1985
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <279@hrpd3.UUCP> akj@hrpd3.UUCP (A.JAIN) writes:
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>	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.

To put it bluntly, who ever told you that is full of shit!

If you ever read the tests done on video decks, all of them have loses
when run thru the RF converter.  Baseband video and audio is the
ONLY way to copy, or even view tapes (if the TV has direct video input).
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