On 1/13/19 11:50 AM, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > >> 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. They managed to do this with VHS too, but much later. And for the distortion free stills and forward/back, you needed 4 heads on VHS. GerritReceived on 2019-01-13 13:00:03
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