rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (08/03/84)
>Is there an "industry-wide" standard for VHS HiFi, the same as there is for >Beta HiFi, so that any VHS HiFi tape can be played on any VHS HiFi VCR? See the June, '84 issue of "Video" for an article on the method that Panasonic is using. It's a very odd method of recording different info at different depths in the tape. The same issue also has a report on Panasonic's VCR which uses this technique. >I have seen ads from some manufacturers who talk about things like recording >the audio under the video, at a different depth in the oxide layer, which >is not mentioned in other manufacturers' ads -- this indicates incompatible >formats to me. Well, as best I can puzzle it out from reading, there seems to be one format. Here's my logic: the Video I mentioned seems to say that the Panasonic machine uses the same format as an RCA machine which is tested in the July, '84 edition of Stereo Review. That mag also reports on a Jensen machine which uses the same format. So far, that gives us three machines using the same depth-encoding of the info - from three different manufacturers, no less. I suspect that at this point it's a de facto standard just because it would be too hard for anyone to buck RCA, Jensen, and Panasonic together. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Never offend with style when you can offend with substance.