terry2@ihlpm.UUCP (t. nelson) (09/29/85)
I am tempted to take the plunge and purchase a VHS HI-FI VCR. A large
video chain near here is selling a new 1986 model with the MTS stereo
decoder built in for $499. One thing I noticed while playing with it
at the store was that there was a definite amount of "breathing" or
"pumping" of the audio while playing back a prerecorded VHS HI-FI
tape (The Empire Strikes Back). Also the LED level indicators spent
a lot of time in the red i.e. +6, +9 vu. This seems to indicate a
mismatch between this particular unit and the prerecorded tape. Has
anyone experienced similar compatibly problems with their
VHS HI-FI VCRs?
Thanks in advance!
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Warm ************************** rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (09/30/85)
[] We happy Beta Hi-Fi users don't have these problems - at least not' on prerecorded tapes. TESB sounds great on my 2700. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
terryl@tekcrl.UUCP () (10/01/85)
> [] > We happy Beta Hi-Fi users don't have these problems - at least not' > on prerecorded tapes. TESB sounds great on my 2700. > > -- > > "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg Don't get too cozy there with your Beta Hi-Fi. It all depends on the quality of the tape, how many times it's been rented, etc. When I got my Beta Hi-Fi unit, TESB was the first tape I rented (from a local Tower Records store, who seems to have really poor quality tape rentals), and the sound consistently drifted in/out; but, at the same time the picture quality degraded similarly, so it was a bad tape that probably had been rented too many times. I rented TESB again a couple of months later (from a different store), and the quality was so much better. No dropouts, no hum, nothing but pure enjoyable sound. I don't know for sure, but I'll bet VHS Hi-Fi probably has the same problem, and probably given a reasonably new tape sounds just as good. BTW, another really good tape for Beta Hi-Fi was "Romancing The Stone". The sound and picture quality was excellent, and the scene where Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner are dancing the night before they find the stone sounded so real, it almost felt like one was there.
abc@brl-sem.ARPA (Brint Cooper ) (10/07/85)
In article <1381@hound.UUCP> rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) writes: >[] >We happy Beta Hi-Fi users don't have these problems - at least not' >on prerecorded tapes. TESB sounds great on my 2700. > >-- This irrelevance was the answer posted to a legitimate question that ended with "Does anyone have any experience with this (VHS) recorder?" That's how these groups keep us all young -- the incessant posting of childish boasting. Brint