> On 2019-01-13, at 08:33, Gerrit Heitsch <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote: > >>> Video 2000 came when VHS had already won, I don't remember ever seeing any >>> pre-recorded tapes. >> At school a friend of mine (or rather his parents) had a Video 2000 >> recorder. We sometimes went there with a couple of guys and rented some >> bad movies (no porn; we were a bit young for that I suppose ;-) > > The thing about Video2000 was that it had better image quality. No dropouts and no distortions when fast forwarding. Bandwidth was similar if not the same (don't recall exactly now) but using half the tape width, dropouts are always there (medium dependent) but it didn't need any (manual) "tracking" (similar to head azimuth in C2N :-) due to advanced "DTF" solution. Therefore the inaccuracies were dynamically compensated, giving therefore better overall output. It also allowed distortion-free stills, slow-motion, fast-motion (both ways), fast winding both ways (_much_ faster than others), immediate recognition of the position of the tape with great accuracy - you could insert any tape in any position (no need to rewind), enter desired time from start, press "go to" and you landed where you wanted. No need to painfully "hunt" for the recording by rewinding (slooowly) to the start, resetting the counter and then (sloowly again) winding forward until you reach the expected counter value. > And you could flip the tapes like a compact cassette, giving you 2 x 4 4 hrs per tape. On top of the above the tapes were up to four hours... per side! Up to 16 hours per single cassette if LP was used. > I think near the end they even had VCRs with autoreverse. Never seen that but of course it should be possible with far less effort than with other systems. > I thought it was the better system, but too many people thought otherwise and bought VHS. It was the Amiga of the video. It was too good to succeed. -- SD! - https://e4aws.silverdr.com/Received on 2019-01-13 12:00:02
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