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From: anne@digi-g.UUCP (Anne Chenette)
Newsgroups: net.video,net.wanted
Subject: Info Wanted: US & European VCRs (VHS-to-Beta Copy)
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Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 15:38:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 10 15:38:40 1984
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I'm not an expert in video equipment, so please excuse the confused terminology.

	I have a request for a friend from Turkey who is visiting me.
She wants to copy some videotapes that she's seen in the US, so that she 
can see them when she's back in Turkey.  These tapes are in VHS format; 
Turkey has all Beta format video recorders.

	Doing a VHS-to-Beta copy is no problem (we have both types of machines),
but what we're worried about is the different number of lines per frame on
Turkish (and European in general) TV.  We have heard, from friends, that a 
Beta tape from England will not play on an American video recorder.

	Will she be able to play the Beta tapes that she records here on 
her Turkish machine?  If not, are there any generally available converters 
or processes to send the videotape through in order to make the tape
playable there?

	Please send all hints, ideas, rumors, and thoughts.  Facts are 
especially welcome.

			Thank you,

			    Anne Chenette
			ihnp4!umn-cs!digi-g!anne 
			    or
			chenette%umn-cs@CSNet-Relay