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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. BE CAREFUL by brownblaket · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be very careful doing this. I read about this on a blog a couple of days ago and tried it with some of the tapes we have an the archive here at work (i work for a local news station on boston). Out of the 5 tapes I tried 3 broke, 1 worked and 1 kind of worked. This is a neat idea but it needs a little more thought before it should be tried with anything that really matters to you.

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  2. Re:Perhaps there is a reason... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'd actually guess the opposite could be true.
    With a digital signal there's less reason to worry about noise, and thus less reason to use the highest quality media than there would be with an analog signal.
    If they're smart, they might just be taking their cheapest-to-produce tapes and selling them at a premium as DVHS.

  3. You don't need to modify the DVHS deck by bwooster0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You don't need to modify the DVHS deck. When you put in an SVHS tape you can just press the "DVHS" button on the front of the JVC DVHS decks. Then it will treat the SVHS tape as a DVHS tape and let you record HD onto it. I have been done this onto more than 250 tapes. You DON'T have to modify the player and therefore you DON'T have to void your warranty.