Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/05/64 11:39

"UCLAN" <nomail@thanks.org> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> You didn't reveal the make/model of your VCRs, but if they
>> are typical consumer machines, the likelihood of them having
>> linear stereo heads ranges from slim to none. Only a few pro
>> VHS VCRs had linear stereo that I have ever seen.
>
> The fact that his old 2-head (non Hi-Fi) VCR was stereo is in
> opposition to this statement.
>
> Looks like VCR #1 was playing back a stereo linear track, while
> his newer 4-head VCR #2 played this track in mono. Only way I
> can see this happening.

I've seen marginal interchange problems cause the embedded FM
"Hi-Fi" recovery to fail when it would still reproduce the picture.
The fail-over is to use the mono linear track. (Or the stereo linear
track played with a single-gap head, rendering it monaural.)

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