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Don, I get kind of jumpy when I attmt to say things to you about video because I am in awe of your knowledge sometimes, but here goes… My 9850 can record four independant tracks at the same time… but with video. If you have already laid down the video, you only have access to the 2 PCM tracks, which you can the record after the fact. You are correct, as far as I know that you cannot do four track edits with any of the video format tape decks. ( although I do seem to remeber seeing something about the high end Beta decks that might do this, but I'm not sure.) If you saw my reply to John, I do have a JVC BR-822U that can record a Hi-fi tracks under video, but you only can do one pass. you have to get it right or your stuck with the way it is. I don't use the feature very much, too scarey for me to do things in the video layer. The real answer to the problem are the new RS-232 controlled DAT type decks with 8 tracks. you can then just sync roll the DAT and the video decks. Cheers, Tom