Posted by Smarty on 10/01/05 21:55

My point was that some analog camcorders will and some won't "play back
video just fine". Those with crummy playback electronics won't. Those with
excellent playback electronics will. A broken or totally missing camera
portion will not matter, as you say.

Smarty



The playback quality will reflect the quality of the camcorder's
"Richard Crowley" <rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote in message
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> "Smarty" wrote ...
>> Analog camcorders, when playing back a tape, actually do make a
>> difference, since the camcorder's playback electronics determine the
>> video, audio, and synch quality coming out of the camcorder's output
>> ports. Thus a beautifully recorded analog video tape when played back on
>> cheapo camcorders (or VCRs for that matter) can profoundly degrade the
>> quality of the original tapes. I have plenty of old Beta, VHS, and Hi8
>> tapes which demonstrate this phenomena.
>
> Certainly, the quality of the playback circuitry influences
> the quality of the video on an analog machine. But even
> camcorders with broken (or missing) camera portions will
> play back video just fine.

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