On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 07:46:02PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980914120636.10637O-100000@waste.org> > By author: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On 14 Sep 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote: > > > > > So a 4 hour video tape could carry like 60MB if your data is correct. > > > > If you only use the audio tracks. With a VGA-to-NTSC converter and a > > framegrabber, you could up this number quite a bit. Assuming only > > 320x200x8 resolution, grabbing only 15 frames a sec (below even VHS > > quality), that's 64k/frame*15frames/sec*3600sec/hour=~ 3.5G/hour. Of > > course, for the cost of a decent framegrabber, genlock, and VCR, you could > > buy a good tape drive.. > > > > There is no way you're going to get enough quality on NTSC to > distinguish that many pixels reliably. Especially not recorded on > VHS... But there *are* fairly cheap off-the-shelf devices that use > VHS tape recorders as data storage media; they were popular in the > early 90's.
For example Arvid. It is popular in Russia.
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