On Wed, Sep 16, 1998 at 08:13:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > However, I have a feeling that some of the processing used in VCRs has
> > the effect of merging adjacent lines somewhat, so you might want to
> > trust only every alternate line.
>
> VCRs do indeed drop previous line over noise and similar algorithms. If
> you turned it off you'd see a snowy picture. Video tape is _dreadful_
> media, but its so high bandwidth you can error correct data on it
> nicely
>
Some portuguese company did a VHS "drive" for dos. it was called Octopus2000
(duh :)
it was shit slow and it was a flop . it could store 2Gigs i think on a 4hr
tape. the cool part was the computer controled remote ehheee :)
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