[net.video] VHS Data Recorders

wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (11/26/85)

I have an ad from TEAC in front of me (pg 101, Measurement & Control
News, Oct '85) that shows (among others) their "14-channel XR-510 VHS
videocassette data recorder". Anybody know what format of recording is
used on these? Is it fourteen linear tracks running longitudinally down
the tape? Or do they use some variant of the helical-scan
video-recording methodology?

If they DO use longitudinal tracks, anybody have any idea what you would
see if you put such a recorded VHS tape in an ordinary VHS VCR and
played it back? Would you just see the ordinary random-signal or
no-signal snow, or would you see strange flickers and flashes?

Regards,
Will Martin

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