[QuadList] OT: is S-VHS "obsolete" in copyright law's eyes?

[Skip Elsheimer]

Don't forget that S-VHS can have special audio tracks..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-VHS#Hardware

Skip Elsheimer
A/V Geeks LLC

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Ted Langdell
<ted at quadvideotapegroup.com> wrote:
> Hi, Walter,
>
> I'm having trouble trying to connect your subject line with the body of the
> message.
>
> You had mentioned "copyright law."
>
> Perhaps there's some confusion about the type of legal protection involved?
>
>
> Did you mean, "Patent," which provides protection for processes, and
> manufactured items (among other things?)
>
> Were you trying to ask whether the makers of current DVD/VHS combo
> decks don't do a "full S-VHS and S-Video recovery" in order to get around
> patent protection that may still apply to the S-VHS and/or S-Video
> processes?
>
> If so, the applicable answer may simply be a matter of manufacturing cost.
>
> It's cheaper to do "Quasi-S-VHS Playback" than to include the ability to do
> a complete S-VHS demod and processing to S-Video internally and/or to
> S-Video outputs, and then translate that into a signal that can be recorded
> on DVD.
>
> More about both here:
> http://hometheater.about.com/od/hometheatervideobasics/qt/svideovssvhs.htm
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ted
>
>