On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:02:49 -0600, dave weil
wrote:

Just look for an SVHS VCR with flying erase heads and you should get
what you are looking for.

Actually, none of them seem to have this feature any more.

PS, I didn't mean flying erase heads, since JVC clearly still offers
models with them. I meant the electronic-to-electronic editing,
although I'm still not sure about that.

I'm still interested in your answer about flying erase heads *always*
providing direct editing functions.

dave weil wrote:

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:02:49 -0600, dave weil
wrote:


Just look for an SVHS VCR with flying erase heads and you should get
what you are looking for.

Actually, none of them seem to have this feature any more.


PS, I didn't mean flying erase heads, since JVC clearly still offers
models with them. I meant the electronic-to-electronic editing,
although I'm still not sure about that.

Other than studio decks, probably not. They are going the way of
the cassette tape, unfortunately.

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dave weil writes:
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 12:02:49 -0600, dave weil
wrote:

Just look for an SVHS VCR with flying erase heads and you should get
what you are looking for.

Actually, none of them seem to have this feature any more.

PS, I didn't mean flying erase heads, since JVC clearly still offers
models with them. I meant the electronic-to-electronic editing,
although I'm still not sure about that.

I'm still interested in your answer about flying erase heads *always*
providing direct editing functions.

In my experience, every VCR I've found that has flying erase heads
also has the ability to edit the recording at a frame by frame level,
that is, once the recording is paused you can use the jog shuttle to
back up the reording to a desired point and then begin recording at
that point. You just pause the recording using the Pause button, then
once you moved the jog shuttle it switched to "view the recording"
mode and you moved the tape to the edit point and when you released
the jog shuttle it went back to record pause so you could continue
recording. I've used it many times to edit out commercials while
recording a program.

But I haven't done much investigaion lately, so newer models may have
flying erase heads but not the editing, but why would you have them if
not to do clean edits, and what use are clean edits if you can't
accuratly position the edit point?