film footage

[Nick Lee]

The VCR format was Philips' precursor to the V2000 format.  VCR, if I recall
correctly, had the two spools of tape sitting one upon the other in the
cassette so the tape travelled at an angle, I guess might have meant that
the head didn't have to spin at an angle?  V2000 came out after Betamax, and
like audio cassettes aloud the tape to be turned over, doubling the play
lenght per cassette.  Technically quite impressive but came out far too late
to have any real chance of catching on.  We had one & I've still got some
cassettes for it somewhere.

Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Mather" <paul at GROMIT.DLIB.VT.EDU>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: film footage


> 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
>
> "Of course the *people* don't want war. [...] But, after all, it is the
>  *leaders* of the country who determine the policy and it is always a
>  simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a
>  fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. [...]
>  Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
>  the leaders.  That is easy.  All you have to do is tell them they are
>  being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
>  exposing the country to greater danger.  It works the same way in any
>  country."
>
>         --- Hermann Goering during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
>