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And nobody would get your references (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Tape speed / recording quality. Frames on VHS are diagonal stripes from one edge to the other. At lower tape speeds, those stripes get shorter and closer together. The horizontal resolution is unavoidably reduced. Color information gets muddy, because that's some deep magic in a black-and-white signal. Adjacent frames can bleed into one another. Worst of all, you're more likely to get tracking problems, where the ridiculous wheels-in-wheels of the diagonal / helical read mechanism get misaligned with the stripes, and the whole picture can drop out.

[–] zedgeist@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

You wrote a really long and interesting response that completely failed to answer the question. What's SP in this context?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

... the tape speed.

[–] zedgeist@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

EDIT: You did it again

Phrased directly: What does SP stand for?

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

Standard Play, I think. Versus Long Play and Extended Play.

No idea why EP is sometimes called SLP. Wikipedia's right there if you're curious.

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