Das war ne tolle Zeit die nie wieder kommt 😢, ich hatte mein ersten Videorecorder mit 17 Jahren Export aus West Germany Sony HF-S 100 Beta ,heute richtig teuer.. danach als die Wende kam einen SVHS Recorder von Sony gekauft...😊
I used to have that ONJ concert on a Beta tape with hifi, the only time I was able to hear the sound in hifi was on a machine at work and it was amazing! I've been cursing myself for years for losing that tape, it's hard to find.
The Olivia Newton-John concert at 46:10 that I referred to, is on youtube in full (mono sound), if anyone's interested. Look up "Olivia Newton-John in Concert 1982 complete"
The Beta hi-fi jingle was the only thing that sounded really good to me, as it had good frequency response and stereo seperation. On a lot of the other videos the sound was either muffled or it seemed to be mono or only had very little stereo seperation. How did that happen? Did they not have better source material? I'm curious. I only got my first Hi-Fi recorder in '96, so by then every tape I got sounded really great.
I'll bet the source material was not up to the task. I remember watching old video clips years later on the german Viva-Zwei channel and they sounded muffled and with noticeable tape hiss.
Okay. What should I say.. sometimes Stereo, okay, but not nearly any HiFi of that I recorded with my first VHS ever, and also HiFi-Stereo in 1988. Cost 1458 DM, Orion, cheapest model. But.. FM-Stereo at best, but NO Stereo recording or playback by stationary head. This Video I think has no FM part in it, only Two-Channel Stereo by stationary head, right?
This is hi-fi stereo, but the original source material was rubbish. Few if any pre-recorded Beta tapes were made with linear stereo. Beta HiFi was superb quality, given the right source material.
If I want to relive my childhood, I do the reverse; I use UA-cam to make a mix tape of early 80s music videos and dub them onto my Beta, and then play them on my Beta. Is there a way to undo the pillar box when displaying full screen?
You have to re-encode a video in order to remove pillar boxing. When re-encoding you can choose crop values which will get rid of letter-boxing or pillar-boxing. For example, suppose the video is 1920 x 1080 but its picture content is only 1440 x 1080, with the rest of the resolution being taken up by pillar-boxing. You could use FFmpeg to re-encode it and include this in your script: -vf "crop=1440:1080" You could also resize it down a lot since it's going onto a Betamax tape which is low resolution anyway, like this: -vf "crop=1440:1080,scale=640x480" The actual digital resolution that would max out the quality of an NTSC Betamax tape would be about 240x480 with an 8:3 pixel aspect ratio (which results in a 4:3 display aspect ratio). You could encode it that way if you wanted to, which would result in an even smaller file size than 640x480 (all else being equal), like this: -vf "crop=1440:1080,scale=240x480,setsar=sar=8/3" Or if you wanted a little extra horizontal resolution just to be on the safe side, but still wanted smaller file sizes than you'd get with 640x480, you could increase it to 256 or 272 or 288, and so on (it's best to use multiples of 16), but you'd have to adjust the pixel aspect ratio accordingly so that you end up with a 4:3 display aspect ratio.
Progressive was intended to offload processors from mobile devices. Almost all German media libraries from public broadcasters also refuse 576 lines without a known reason.
Das war ne tolle Zeit die nie wieder kommt 😢, ich hatte mein ersten Videorecorder mit 17 Jahren Export aus West Germany Sony HF-S 100 Beta ,heute richtig teuer.. danach als die Wende kam einen SVHS Recorder von Sony gekauft...😊
This feels like nostalgia turned into a nightmare
I used to have that ONJ concert on a Beta tape with hifi, the only time I was able to hear the sound in hifi was on a machine at work and it was amazing! I've been cursing myself for years for losing that tape, it's hard to find.
The Olivia Newton-John concert at 46:10 that I referred to, is on youtube in full (mono sound), if anyone's interested. Look up "Olivia Newton-John in Concert 1982 complete"
Seriously good 80s music!
Nobody can argue abut that.
Cheers from 🇵🇹
Interesting, I had a copy of this on a VHS demo tape back in the 80's.
could upscale this so youd get the nicer bitrates on HD youtube ;)
The Beta hi-fi jingle was the only thing that sounded really good to me, as it had good frequency response and stereo seperation.
On a lot of the other videos the sound was either muffled or it seemed to be mono or only had very little stereo seperation. How did that happen? Did they not have better source material? I'm curious.
I only got my first Hi-Fi recorder in '96, so by then every tape I got sounded really great.
I'll bet the source material was not up to the task. I remember watching old video clips years later on the german Viva-Zwei channel and they sounded muffled and with noticeable tape hiss.
Oh, particulary the UB40 clip in this video sounds exactly as I remembered from Viva-II.
I'm sure it was due to poor source material. Beta HiFi sound quality is really excellent.
super cool document !
Okay. What should I say.. sometimes Stereo, okay, but not nearly any HiFi of that I recorded with my first VHS ever, and also HiFi-Stereo in 1988. Cost 1458 DM, Orion, cheapest model. But.. FM-Stereo at best, but NO Stereo recording or playback by stationary head. This Video I think has no FM part in it, only Two-Channel Stereo by stationary head, right?
This is hi-fi stereo, but the original source material was rubbish. Few if any pre-recorded Beta tapes were made with linear stereo. Beta HiFi was superb quality, given the right source material.
Image quality not bad at all, considering its 40 year old vcr recording.
If I want to relive my childhood, I do the reverse; I use UA-cam to make a mix tape of early 80s music videos and dub them onto my Beta, and then play them on my Beta. Is there a way to undo the pillar box when displaying full screen?
You have to re-encode a video in order to remove pillar boxing. When re-encoding you can choose crop values which will get rid of letter-boxing or pillar-boxing. For example, suppose the video is 1920 x 1080 but its picture content is only 1440 x 1080, with the rest of the resolution being taken up by pillar-boxing. You could use FFmpeg to re-encode it and include this in your script:
-vf "crop=1440:1080"
You could also resize it down a lot since it's going onto a Betamax tape which is low resolution anyway, like this:
-vf "crop=1440:1080,scale=640x480"
The actual digital resolution that would max out the quality of an NTSC Betamax tape would be about 240x480 with an 8:3 pixel aspect ratio (which results in a 4:3 display aspect ratio). You could encode it that way if you wanted to, which would result in an even smaller file size than 640x480 (all else being equal), like this:
-vf "crop=1440:1080,scale=240x480,setsar=sar=8/3"
Or if you wanted a little extra horizontal resolution just to be on the safe side, but still wanted smaller file sizes than you'd get with 640x480, you could increase it to 256 or 272 or 288, and so on (it's best to use multiples of 16), but you'd have to adjust the pixel aspect ratio accordingly so that you end up with a 4:3 display aspect ratio.
Shame that are heavilly compressed by youtube, Not sure why youtube treats 480i as garbage?
Probably historical reasons. That's the way it was back 10+ years ago so it's still good enough.
33 Minute Musik aus der Deutschen Serie Auf Achse 😅
Any copyright strikes? Haha, great upload :)
Better then title suspected. Maybe expand this title ? ty for posting
It's supposed to be support material for this Short: ua-cam.com/users/shortsvc3XH7Ed4hg
But I could change the title, yes.
Progressive was intended to offload processors from mobile devices. Almost all German media libraries from public broadcasters also refuse 576 lines without a known reason.
Haha, great! Sadly "Tootsie" is now real and even worse, Dylan Mulvaney.