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DVHS on a Budget

Posted by Zonk on from the scissored-ingenuity dept.

Kerhop writes "ecoustics.com has an article on how to convert SVHS tapes to work in DVHS recorders which is similar to modifying a floppy drive (like we did years ago) to double the storage. There's two holes on a DVHS cassette and a single hole on the SVHS tape. The hole common to both permits DVHS tapes to handle SVHS signals; the hole unique to DVHS is what we want to focus on. Just cut off the top four to five millimeters of the pin within the recorder itself."

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  1. Re:mnb Re:Perhaps there is a reason... by plague3106 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    CD-Rs labeled "Music" actually are different than data CD-Rs. They have some extra metadata pre-burned onto them that many(most?) stand-alone CD recorders look for, and won't work without.

    Thats just flat out wrong. My main use of blank cds is to burn for use in my cars cd player. Its the burner that writes the proper format for a standard cdrom to be able to read, and i've never had a problem with a stand alone cd player playing a cd-r (even very old ones).