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Article: Super VHS. (high quality video recording system)
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- July 1, 1987
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Super VHS This test pattern is from a standard VHS recorder," says a demonstrator at Victor Co. of Japan's headquarters in Yokohama. The 35-inch video monitor displays horizontal-resolution wedges that begin to blur at 230 lines. Then he throws a switch.
"This is a tape from a Super-VHS machine," he says. Thesame pattern now sparkles on the screen, almost as if it were a true-to-life cardboard test chart without the TV set. The bottom of the horizontal-resolution wedge--the 400-line mark--is clear and sharp. The adjacent wedge indicates that the resolution is now at an incredible 430 lines. To put that into perspective, it compares favorably with the best ...