film footage

[Paul Mather]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:31:42PM +0800, William Duffy wrote:
=> Is the Hawklords 78 footage you mention have them performing 25 Years On? If
=> so, I did make a recording of this video clip back in the days (long before
=> Beta) when I had a recorder by Philips which used a format called simply
=> VCR.

In the UK this format was known as "Video 2000".  From a technical
perspective, it was superior even to Betamax.  Alas, it was the third
major consumer format on the scene, arriving really late in the game,
and so stood a snowball's chance in hell of beating out VHS (which was
technically the worst, but won out).  A friend's family owned one
of the Video 2000 format VCRs, and it was really nice.

Cheers,

Paul.

e-mail: paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu

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