Re: VHS backups (Re: NEWSFLASH! Linux ported to Commodore VIC-20!!)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:13:39 +0100 (BST)

> 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

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