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From: heliotis@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Copying Your Tapes
Message-ID: <2046@rocheste.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 10:41:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 23 10:41:56 1983
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This group has been dead for a while, so I will request that you POST
your answers to the net to liven things up.

Does anyone out there have experience with tape-to-tape editing/copying?
I have some "priceless" home videos that I want to back up.  Here are
my questions:

[1]  Although I see little difference in recording the original tape
     at medium vs. slow speed (beta, in my case), might it make more
     difference at what speed the original was recorded when I copy it?

[2]  If I bring my VCR to a friend's house to do this, I could just
     bring over the (portable) recorder part, but that forces me to
     use the modulated signal into my friend's unit, unless I spend
     money and time trying to make my own special purpose connector.
     Does the signal lose significant quality going through the modulate/
     demodulate cycle?

Thanks.