Posted by GMAN on 11/21/06 19:31

In article <7r43m2hq26cpd9buqs697j6p9upl01ea3j@4ax.com>, E. Barry Bruyea <noemail@scam.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:02:35 GMT, Paul Hyett
><pah@nojunkmailplease.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>In rec.video.dvd.tech on Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Citizen Bob wrote :
>>
>>>The low-cost Insignia NS-DVDR1 (Best Buy Online $115) has 4 resolution
>>>settings: 1-hr, 2-hr, 4-hr and 6-hr. The manual claims that the 6-hour
>>>setting will result in poor picture quality.
>>
>>I've found that even 6hr mode is better than videotape - but I wouldn't
>>buy a DVD recorder that didn't have a 3hr mode - that's just too big a
>>gap.
>
>
>It's interesting that a few years ago, VCR's dropped the 4 hour mode,
>as the quality was not bad, but I've found the 6 hour mode crappy in
>most cases, as is the 6 hour mode on my LG DVR; the 4 hour mode is
>about the same as a very good VCR in 2 hour mode.
>
Them majority of VCR manufacturers never used LP mode on their vcr's in the
USA models, it was never an official standard, only Panasonic and a few other
manufacturers ever really used it and once 19 micron heads arrived LP mode had
no visible quality differences over the EP mode.

And now trying to use a 19micron head VCR to read LP mode is damn near
impossible.

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