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Hi-fi sound with video
Sound from video recorders is poor because although the video
is laid down in high-speed helical tracks by heads on a rotating
drum, sound is recorded at
1
inch per second in a linear track
along the tape. Track width in both formats is 0.35 mm
compared to 0.6 mm for audio cassettes.
FM recording When a carrier wave is frequency modulated
it deviates up and down from its standing frequency. The times
per second it deviates is the modulation frequency and the
extent of the deviation gives the modulation amplitude. A
recorded f.m. signal is insensitive to amplitude variations, so is
not subject to amplitude distortio ...