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Robert, Um, we've about reached the limit of my technical expertise. 🙁 Very loosely, VHS has about 225 lines of resolution, Hi-8 about 400, S-VHS about 425. (These numbers are to the best of my recollection). Also, Hi-8 and S-VHS use a component signal, keeping the luminance element seperate from the chroma. This provides for less color smearing than with a composite signal like VHS or 8mm. I don't know much about Beta specs, only that it's better and more expensive, and Beta SP is a step up from Beta. I hope somebody jumps in here with better info. As to whether you can go direct to air from a PAR, I just don't know. My totally uneducated guess is that if you output from the PAR to Beta SP, your local station would air it, especially in smaller markets. Big city or network might not. Again, this is all based on what I've heard and read shile lurking about, not on personal experience. Sounds like a good topic for a thread. I'll put it up and see who bites. Good luck. Kent