[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

Mon Nov 21 06:34:32 EST 2011

Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:

> glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
>
>> Also, VHS went to slower (and lower quality) speeds, and so won
>> over those who didn't care about picture quality.
>
> But wouldn't this mean that one can fit more pictures on the same
> tape?  If one can tape a two-hour TV show instead of just half of
> it, that's certainly an advantage.

Yes, that's what it did.  The three hour tapes (popular during the
last century) are able to hold 6 hours of content that way.  Of course
with loss of quality.

I believe it's hard to get any VHS casette with less than 270min tape
these days.  Where you get them at all, that is.

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