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Digital Audio Technology, 4th Edition
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Digital Audio Technology, 4th Edition

by Jan Maes, Marc Vercammen
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
7h 23m
English
Routledge
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14 Video PCM formats

Video 8 PCM format

In 1985, a new consumer video format was launched, called Video 8. Sony expected this format to gradually replace the older Betamax and VHS consumer video formats. The Video 8 format uses a much smaller cassette than older video formats, enabling construction of very small video recorders. Almost all major manufacturers in the field of consumer electronics are supporting this new format.

Audio information can be recorded on Video 8 recorders as either an FM signal, along with the picture, or as a PCM signal written in a section of the tape where no picture information is recorded. In some recorders, however, PCM data can be recorded in the video area, instead of the picture signal. By doing this, six channels ...

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