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From: MClayton@btinternet.com
"Martin Underwood" wrote in message
news:j9AOa.10723$4O4.1016259@newsfep2-win.server.ntli.net...
> "Steve Roberts" wrote in message
> news:3f0ac941.25351983@news.reith.bbc.co.uk...
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:11:24 +0100, Nigel Goodwin
> > wrote:
>
> > There were domestic 405 line reel-to-reel VTR's - the Sony CV2000
> > being the most well-known and popular one. You could buy a matching
> > monitor and camera for it, to allow you to go out and shoot your own
> > videos.
Yes I recall this from 1978. It was helical scan, but reel to reel.
>
> I remember this: I think it recorded on 1/4" audio tape - it certainly
> *looked* narrower than 1/2" VHS tape, but I could be wrong. The VCR had a
> very obvious circular cover over the head, with a semi-circular guide
around
> which the tape was wrapped.
IIRC the tape was ~1cm. The semi-circiular guide contained the slot thtough
which the rotating head scanned the tape.
> Stability of the picture was atrocious: at best
> the picture wobbled and shimmered - and if you breathed on the VCR (let
> alone jogging it or carrying it), the picture broke up completely.
Don't remember this rom camera te picture was quite stable.
>
>
snip
> Was there a simple relationship between the number of active lines for 405
> and 625? Certainly 405/625 isn't a simple fraction. I'm not sure how many
> active lines the 405 system had.
Probably not all the 625 have picture on them.
>
>
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