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SeeingEyeDog wrote:
If the VCR is of a stereo Hi-Fi vintage than the audio is recorded
digitally. It is fairly close to CD quality. Few people are aware of this
fact.

No, it's wideband FM on the same track as the video using some tricks:
head gap angled opposite the video, wider gap, and low frequency carriers
so that the sound signal is "under" the video signal in the oxide.
Seperate carriers per side, too, I think.

Mark Zenier
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