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Article: Super pictures from Super-VHS.
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- Popular Science
- Article date:
- January 1, 1988
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SUPER PICTURES FROM SUPER-VHS
Keep your eyes on the display nearest you," says Steve Isaacson, general manager of JVC Co. of America's consumer-video division. Dozens of video monitors throughout the New York hotel ballroom momentarily flicker, then burst to life with vivid color pictures. "This is Super-VHS," announces Isaacson.
The detail of the prerecorded images flashing on the screen at this first U.S. showing is unmatched by any consumer product I've seen, including videodisc. Veins in a tree leaf stood out as black threadlike lines, not sketchy dark blurs. I could see the fuzz on a peach, and the sharp, shiny edges of dining crystal were distinct ...