You need to drill a hole

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In Reply to: Fooling an s-video recorder to record s-video on standard tapes posted by John C. - Aussie on May 1, 2002 at 16:51:09:

If you compare a regular VHS tape and an S-VHS one, the S-VHS tape has a hole in the shell that the VHS shell lacks. You have to drill a similar sized hole in the VHS shell in that same spot, keeping in mind that the plastic shavings are a potential problem and that you may want to vacuum them out or something. An S-VHS machine that can record on a standard VHS tape must not have the hole detector that regular S-VHS players have, so the hole in the shell becomes a moot point.
You can achieve pretty good performance doing this if the VHS tape is of relatively high quality, but I just don't think it's worth it myself. If you do a large amount of S-VHS archiving, perhaps it can be justified.
Todd

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Topic - Fooling an s-video recorder to record s-video on standard tapes - John C. - Aussie 16:51:09 05/01/02 (5)

S-VHS ET - michael w 04:09:11 05/02/02 (2)

Re: S-VHS ET - John C. - Aussie 16:11:08 05/02/02 (1)

Current Panasonic VCRs are crap. - michael w 22:36:41 05/02/02 (0)

You need to drill a hole - Lasermeister 21:07:05 05/01/02 (1)

Thanks - John C. - Aussie 00:36:35 05/02/02 (0)

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