speaker@ttidca.UUCP (Kenneth Speaker) (12/27/85)
Does anyone care to speculate on the future of 8mm video now that one of the camcorders has been dropped (I don't remember if it was Poloroid or Kodak, but one announced that they were discontinuing marketing of their 8mm camcorder)? The video and audio quality of the models I saw did not thrill me. Video looked like non-HQ VHS, audio was not that much better, really. AFM (mono only!) and an 8-bit (!!) PCM (stereo, with dbx-like companding). Sorry, but a ~45 db S/N just does not cut it, even with ~95 db dynamic range. BEGIN FLAME; Question to audiophiles: Have you ever wondered why a dbx copy of a CD does not sound like the CD at loud levels? Because the CD has ~95 S/N, the dbx copy only ~90 db of DYNAMIC RANGE, ***WHICH IS NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT THE SAME***. END FLAME; --Kne