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Old 11th Oct 2018, 11:23 am   #9
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Default Re: Is a Hi8 Cassette the same as a VHS-C one?

V8 was one of the last great achievements in purely analogue video recording. It combined all the best bits of the domestic formats which had gone before, and it was tiny too!

Most interestingly, it used a similar system of automatic tracking to Video 2000. The piezo actuators in DTF (Dynamic Track Following) were replaced by changing the phase between the drum and capstan servos in ATF (Automatic Track Finding - the V8 system), but neither format needs a control track. In fact, V8 needs no static heads at all, bar full erase. Even the basic ones use FM recording alongside the vision signal for sound, both in mono and stereo forms. The later variant with digital sound used an extended tape wrap to scan a further part of the tape, where time compressed PCM codes were recorded.

V8 is too different from the earlier formats to make any kind of adaptor practical.
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