somebody shoot Microsoft ... PLEASE !

[DukeP]

Ah, what a nice shot there....
Big shells, I wonder??

~~DukeP~~

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
Go for it! Hijack that puppy and blow them to kingdom come!

KvH has the most bestest ideas!

[az]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
There was VHS way before it was HiFi

Didn't know that - history was never my favourite class

Maybe the name was introduced for HiFi VHS later on... or someone just made it up

AZ

[THE_Editor]

Thats interesting.

I thought HiFi meant ... High Fidelity !!

Well ..Thats what my Uncle told me at his HiFi plant ( Lloytron) in the early 70's.

I dont remember VHS catching on until the Late seventies/early eighties.

[az]

I think he meant before VHS went HiFi

AZ

[Byock]

Yeah, if IIRC the first VCR's were stereo, but not hifi, later 4 head models introduced HiFi.

[Umfriend]

Don;t remember exactly, but aren't the requirements for "HiFi" rather low? I think the earliest VHS VCR's were not HiFi, solely due to not offering stereo sound?

[KvHagedorn]

The requirements for HiFi are whatever the standard set by the industry is at the time. "HiFi" in the 40s and 50s would never have been thought of as "HiFi" in the 80s and 90s. As to VHS though, they came out with their own "HiFi" Standard sometime in the early 80s I believe. The first HiFi VHS machines were over $1000.00, and you could absulutely tell the difference. HiFi VHS is probably the highest quality analog sound recording medium ever developed. The "stereo" VHS decks that preceded VHS HiFi ones were not even close to the same quality, and more to the point, they were not up to the current audio standard of HiFi, as HiFi VHS was when it came out.

[KvHagedorn]

BTW, there actually were some 2-head HiFi models. This was in the early 90s when they were trying to get the entry level price down for a VHS HiFi VCR. The number of heads really just relates to visual quality and the ability to freeze a frame or edit successfully.