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Just get a HIFI one or you'll defeat the purpose. I believe a digital cable box or TiVo would take care of your issues as well, I'm still holding out on either of those though, at least until I upgrade my TV.

What do you mean hifi? I just use the inwall cable in my dormitory. I believe my old vcr back in PHX is stereo. I'll pick it up this weekend and try it out. I'm just still skeptical about having to splice the signal three times.

hifi VCR. In other words, stereo. You could just run everything through the VCR and put video to the TV, rather than a coax from the VCR to the TV. Of course, that would mean leaving the VCR on all the time, but...

*sound of screeching tires* Back that truck up.

Hi-Fi and Stereo VCRs are two different animals.

Stereo VCRs record two audio tracks, left and right.

Hi-Fi VCRs record the stereo tracks heliarchally - that is, striped diagonally across the tape, the same way the video is recorded which gives more space per inch of tape (for illustration - take a roll of ribbon and draw a straight line down the length of it, and take another roll and draw diagonal stripes all the way down the length and see which one takes more ink) - more info, better sound.

All Hi-Fi VCRs are Stereo, not all Stereo VCRs are Hi-Fi.

(Hi-Fi VCRs also record the same information longitudinally as well, for compatibility with non Hi-Fi VCRs)

Bren R.

BrenR,

Thanks for making the correction long before I got to this thread, and welcome back! And just to be overly precise, the correct term is "VHS HiFi", which JVC developed and introduced, as opposed to Sony's old "Beta Hi-Fi" system.

Prior to the advent of consumer digital recording, a VHS HiFi VCR was one of the most linear hi-fi recording devices available to consumers. Unlike analog cassette, VHS HiFi had no audible flutter or wow, very extended frequency response, and a noise floor (S/N) almost as low as a digital recording. And at the slowest recording speed (EP), there was little or no deterioration in the audio specs.

Regards,

I don't remember what my VCR is hifi or Stereo, but according ot what Bren said, either one will work for my stereo sound needs, correct?

I also had one other question. Since don't want to run my coax through so many interferences, if my cable line was somehow to get surged and I ran the cable through the VCR my VCR would get fried and not my TV right? I seriously doubt that anything like this would happen, but I wouldn't mind losing a VCR nearly as much as losing my TV. Or should I still run my coax through the Belkin?

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Thanks for making the correction long before I got to this thread, and welcome back! And just to be overly precise, the correct term is "VHS HiFi", which JVC developed and introduced, as opposed to Sony's old "Beta Hi-Fi" system.

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Thanks for the welcome, Alan... and Ken, you should feel honoured, not only did I pick a nit on this, Alan picked a nit off my nit.

Think I've mentioned this a few times but we had a Betamax Hi-Fi VCR running at the arena right up until last year - used it for security/liability recording of events.

Bren R.

Heh. Shows what I know. Not that I've even used my VCR for almost a year.

I use ours as a tuner and to test VHS dupes and Lisa tapes her soaps...

Bren R.