ClosedCaptions: [Music] VHS Stereo-HiFi Advanced HiFi-Technology opens a new world of home entertaiment. Convential left- and right-channel longitudinal audio is recorded onto the narrow edge-tracks of the tape. But HiFi-Performance comes from two seperate flying audio-heads, that record STEREO sound over the full videotape-width, the portion traditionally reserved for video-signals only. The sound is layed down first, deep within the tape. Next the video-heads put down a picture signal. This is depth-multiplex audio FM-recording. The result is VHS-Quality pictures, with sound performance that approaches the finest digital recordings and effective audio-writing speed of nearly 230 inches per second. Television and music have just taken a quantum lenght!
I have many, many 6hr and 8hr vhs hifi mixtapes recorded from Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music. They sound great and it's the music I play around the house when I'm working on a project.
this year marks 30 years of vhs hifi sound. Laserdisc was the first home video format to use stereophonic sound on recorded media. Betamax was next, and VHS would soon follow. MTV was simulcast in stereo. Stereo TVs wouldn't take off until 1985, when the all star game was shown nationally (The tonight show on NBC was the first program recorded in stereo).
In anticipation of stereo TV. I remember reading that the longtime audio engineer on the Johnny Carson's The tonight show started mixing the show in stereo especially for the musical performance. However, because the NBC network was not yet in stereo and wouldn't be for quite some time. The engineer used the technique of recording both the Left+Right and Left-Right onto the archive tapes. The same method used for FM broadcast, so if you only listen to one side you get a mono mix, preferably the L+R side. With the network only distributing the L+R side. Carson was smart enough to know to keep all the shows instead of having them reuse the old tape like the BBC tended to do. The end result is that shows before 1986 that have been reissued on DVD etc are in fact in stereo since they recovered the original mix that was recorded all those years ago.
So my Pi calculations are right, it's about 230 inches per second which runs circles around the ultimate audio format standard of 45 inches per second on a 14 inch reel. And VHS tapes at the time cost less than $25 for 6 hours of sound as opposed to a 21 minute reel which goes for $200.
Also, ips doesn't matter much I believe in regards to what he mentions is a modulation over FM. It's depth multiplexing whereas the reel format is a magnetic linear 2track recording.
Sadly I just took my 26-year old Zenith VHS Hi-Fi out of commission today, replacing it with a Panasonic model that has both Hi-Fi and linear stereo. I used to use two separate decks, one with linear stereo only, since the Zenith could only play those tapes in mono.
Updating that the Zenith was quickly put back into service after the Panasonic died. It has now finally been retired after I got an older Zenith VR 4000 machine, which plays both tracks in stereo. It lacks a stereo TV tuner but it's not like you can use that anymore.
DAT cassette decks are essentially a small vhs-player. You open up a DAT tape deck, its the exact same mechanism just made smaller. That's why DAT tapes look like a miniture vhs-tape, because that's exactly what it is.
@@spazzman90 I assume without looking that it is something like 38khz and 14bit based on the years they were using tape cartridge for PCM . They had to process the modulation in an external device. Laserdisc though, I can't think of even one laserdisc burner do it wouldn't really be feasible
But when Sony removed the Beta-I recording speed mode on its later models of VCRs, it ultimately lost the picture quality advantage it had over the SP-mode quality of VHS. This is because you needed to use the Beta-II mode to record onto a Betamax tape the same length of video you could record onto an SP VHS tape. Moreover, a T-120 VHS tape had twice the tape length of an hour-long Betamax, and VHS tapes came in even longer lengths (T-160 and T-180). That was the big Achilles'-heel of Betamax which led to Sony's loss of the war and them giving up their Betamax machines after the late-80s and hiring another subcontractor (Sanyo) to manufacture a VHS VCR for them.
Anadialog introduced me to the fact that HiFi vcrs have a place in the audiophile setup!👍
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[Music]
VHS Stereo-HiFi
Advanced HiFi-Technology opens a new world of home entertaiment.
Convential left- and right-channel longitudinal audio is recorded onto the narrow edge-tracks of the tape.
But HiFi-Performance comes from two seperate flying audio-heads, that record STEREO sound over the full videotape-width, the portion traditionally reserved for video-signals only. The sound is layed down first, deep within the tape.
Next the video-heads put down a picture signal. This is depth-multiplex audio FM-recording. The result is VHS-Quality pictures, with sound performance that
approaches the finest digital recordings and effective audio-writing speed of nearly 230 inches per second.
Television and music have just taken a quantum lenght!
I have many, many 6hr and 8hr vhs hifi mixtapes recorded from Spotify, Tidal and Apple Music. They sound great and it's the music I play around the house when I'm working on a project.
Killer music! It's like NFL films style for the VHS
this year marks 30 years of vhs hifi sound. Laserdisc was the first home video format to use stereophonic sound on recorded media. Betamax was next, and VHS would soon follow. MTV was simulcast in stereo. Stereo TVs wouldn't take off until 1985, when the all star game was shown nationally (The tonight show on NBC was the first program recorded in stereo).
In anticipation of stereo TV. I remember reading that the longtime audio engineer on the Johnny Carson's The tonight show started mixing the show in stereo especially for the musical performance. However, because the NBC network was not yet in stereo and wouldn't be for quite some time. The engineer used the technique of recording both the Left+Right and Left-Right onto the archive tapes. The same method used for FM broadcast, so if you only listen to one side you get a mono mix, preferably the L+R side. With the network only distributing the L+R side. Carson was smart enough to know to keep all the shows instead of having them reuse the old tape like the BBC tended to do. The end result is that shows before 1986 that have been reissued on DVD etc are in fact in stereo since they recovered the original mix that was recorded all those years ago.
@@marcusdamberger interesting
You have to include s-vhs hi-fi and betamax hi-fi
So my Pi calculations are right, it's about 230 inches per second which runs circles around the ultimate audio format standard of 45 inches per second on a 14 inch reel. And VHS tapes at the time cost less than $25 for 6 hours of sound as opposed to a 21 minute reel which goes for $200.
That's why I use it for music
But it should be s-vhs
Also, ips doesn't matter much I believe in regards to what he mentions is a modulation over FM. It's depth multiplexing whereas the reel format is a magnetic linear 2track recording.
Sadly I just took my 26-year old Zenith VHS Hi-Fi out of commission today, replacing it with a Panasonic model that has both Hi-Fi and linear stereo. I used to use two separate decks, one with linear stereo only, since the Zenith could only play those tapes in mono.
Updating that the Zenith was quickly put back into service after the Panasonic died. It has now finally been retired after I got an older Zenith VR 4000 machine, which plays both tracks in stereo. It lacks a stereo TV tuner but it's not like you can use that anymore.
DAT cassette decks are essentially a small vhs-player. You open up a DAT tape deck, its the exact same mechanism just made smaller. That's why DAT tapes look like a miniture vhs-tape, because that's exactly what it is.
Isn't that basically any camcorder too?
Nice! Any chance you can deinterlace it into 60p and re-upload?
Well, someone already knew that vhs videotapes have now ceased to exist! Also video recorders too!
С 1983 по 2008-го года!
cool
Hi-Fi is graphics video Wi-Fi Internet
All good in theory, but I've never experienced a HI-FI deck that didn't get some bleed through interference heard especially in dialog only scenes.
The key is S-VHS. I'm researching to see which video format has best audio but I'm having a difficult time. U-matic betacam SP etc...
@@ET2carbon If you're talking vintage analog video formats, Laserdisc PCM audio would be the best, wouldn't it?
@@spazzman90 I assume without looking that it is something like 38khz and 14bit based on the years they were using tape cartridge for PCM . They had to process the modulation in an external device. Laserdisc though, I can't think of even one laserdisc burner do it wouldn't really be feasible
Hi-Fi, Zenith, whatever, you're just buying a rebranded Panasonic
Actually Zenith VR4000 = JVC HR-D725
Sony Beta Hi-Fi did it first & Did it better!!!!
But when Sony removed the Beta-I recording speed mode on its later models of VCRs, it ultimately lost the picture quality advantage it had over the SP-mode quality of VHS. This is because you needed to use the Beta-II mode to record onto a Betamax tape the same length of video you could record onto an SP VHS tape. Moreover, a T-120 VHS tape had twice the tape length of an hour-long Betamax, and VHS tapes came in even longer lengths (T-160 and T-180). That was the big Achilles'-heel of Betamax which led to Sony's loss of the war and them giving up their Betamax machines after the late-80s and hiring another subcontractor (Sanyo) to manufacture a VHS VCR for them.
Sony Beta Hi-Fi did it first & Did it better!!!!
Thank God Beta didn't make it