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- From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
- Newsgroups: rec.audio,rec.music.folk,rec.arts.wobegon
- Subject: Re: Hi Fi VCR for taping audio FM? (Re: A Timer/Recorder for AM/FM Radio?)
- Date: 23 Nov 1992 18:37:39 GMT
- Organization: N.I.C.E.
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- Iskandar Taib writes:
- >>Well, I just opened the box of my brand-new Samsung Hi Fi VCR ($266 cheap!)
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- Good bargain!
-
- >Kinda funny having the opening piece on Relativity's "Gathering Pace"
- >playing while cowboys ride by...seemed appropriate somehow.
-
- You'll be amazed at some of the multimedia gems you can produce -- I
- have an awesome gag tape made by accident of cartoon characters
- dancing to Greek folk music from an unrelated radio show. It is
- perfect -- on the beat & they start & finish on time with the tunes!
-
- Spooky too -- I did part of a 6-hour Arab music show from the radio
- that has TV coverage of the gulf war breaking in on the video.
-
- >1) Is recording in SLP (or whatever its called - 6 hours on a "120"
-
- This comes down to religion. I've done blind tests with others.
- Nobody I have run into can _hear_ a difference (tech specs suggest this
- should be so) between the speeds. Some folks suggest that the tapes
- won't "last". No opinion on that yet.
-
- >2) How important is auto-tracking? The Samsung doesn't have it; a
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- I find it's unreliable. I almost always have to manually retrack
- hifi rental tapes.
-