zarifes@bnrmtv.UUCP (Kenneth Zarifes) (03/19/86)
I have just seen the new Sony SLHF550 Hi Fi SuperBeta and it looked very nice.
The freeze frame was rock steady and clear. A small amount of jitter in the
slow motion.
Video Concepts was selling it for $599.00 (it lists at $799.00).
Does anyone know anything about it? The salesman I talked to didn't
know anything at all. How many heads does it have? How does it compare
with the SLHF600 and SLHF900? It seems comparable to the HF600.
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{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!zarifes --Ken Zarifeskam@hp-pcd.UUCP (kam) (03/20/86)
I've got an SLHF550. I've had it for about a month now. I have a
connection and I got one of the first ones in Portland, OR. I was
going to buy an SLHF6000, but buy the time I made the buy decision, it
was December, and there were none to be found. I heard from my
connection that Sony was coming out with the 550, but that it wouldn't
be out for a couple of months. So I called up Sony's consumer hotline
and asked them. At first the operator who answered the phone didn't
know anything about the 550 or the fact that the 600 was obsolete, but
she went and checked it, and confirmed it as true.
So I decided to wait. Around the middle of February I finally got it.
It was worth the wait. I really like it. Like you say, the
freeze-frame is ROCK-STEADY. I haven't found any jitter in the slo-mo
though. There is a slow motion tracking adjustment to prevent it.
The 550 and the 600 are almost identical to each other. Both are
Super Beta HiFi with MTS tuner. Both have PCM inputs. The only
difference is that the 600 has full random access tuning, the 550 has
14 pre-sets. That wasn't a concern with me. We don't have 14
channels here, and it doesn't look like we ever will. I would
recommend the deck to anybody. It is really super.
Keith Marchington
Hewlett-Packard
Corvallis, OR
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