CompuServe Messages

Keith: >Your assumption is incorrect. 3/4" decks have had flying erase heads for 10 -15 years or more.< Really? All the ones *I've* ever dealt w/didn't–of course, that was mostly at educational institutions & nonprofit organizations, so they didn't tend to have the most up-to-date equipment… >This statement is also not true since every s-vhs system also has composite outs. These outputs are the same quality as transcoding S-VHS- composite thru an external TBC.< I'm aware of the composite outputs on S-VHS machines–but frankly, every time I've dubbed an S-VHS tape using the composite outlets to a composite VCR (3/4" or VHS), the results have been, well, unfortunate (color shifts all over creation, mushy image quality, etc.). OTOH, dubbing via a TBC or digital buffer has always given me good results… Anyway, that's always been my experience, Tim