Originally Posted by nvingo:
“I don't know how long ELCaset lasted, but Sony did have an alternative format in 1985 in the form of Video 8 PCM audio mode.
I am now in possession of my uncle's Sony Video 8 VCR which he also used for audio, it could record 3 hours of PCM per track - six tracks per tape (five of those in the area normally used to store the analogue video) written/read by the rotating head helical scan hence the virtual increase in tape speed.”
“I don't know how long ELCaset lasted, but Sony did have an alternative format in 1985 in the form of Video 8 PCM audio mode.
I am now in possession of my uncle's Sony Video 8 VCR which he also used for audio, it could record 3 hours of PCM per track - six tracks per tape (five of those in the area normally used to store the analogue video) written/read by the rotating head helical scan hence the virtual increase in tape speed.”
You missed out (perhaps never knew?) about Sony's audio recording to their portable Betamax machine? - long before Video 8 appeared




. In fact I may now have to get it out of the drawer again to make sure it still works .....