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Default Variable Density is better that Variable Area

On May 30, 7:41 pm, Radium wrote:


Hail to optical tracks. Death to magnetic tracks.


Some films, like the Scopitones only exist with magnetic soundtracks.
They never made opticals.


Variable Density is good, but try to get a lab to print one nowadays.

VD is like FM radio.

VA is like AM radio.