Following are the encoding variables for the analog NTSC, PAL and SECAM broadcasting and recording formats. For digital formats, see video format. PAL and SECAM are still used in some countries. VHS ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Last month, we said that in spite of recent technological developments, videotape is not yet dead ...

John Mellancamp’s recent album “No Better Than This” was recorded by the singer and “O Brother, Where Art Thou” music producer T-Bone Burnett using a single vintage RCA 77DX microphone and a ...

Consumers will soon have three DVD-Video recording formats to compare, but there’s not a single DVD-Audio recording format for audiophiles to audition. Because the DVD-Audio format is still in its ...

Are you confused by the myriad of choices in camcorders–8 mm., compact VHS-C, full-sized VHS and Beta? Believe it or not, yet another format for combo videocamera-recorders will be introduced next ...

Vinyl's surging popularity is covered ad nauseam in mainstream media; the Audiophiliac ponders the rise of the other major consumer analog audio format, the cassette. Ex-movie theater projectionist ...

The current resurgence of vinyl shows that the digital age never did snuff out analog listening. Analog recording methods, however, are effectively DOA. To find that old dinosaur, you might have to ...

Every sound you hear in real life is analog, but digital recording converts the original sound into a sequence of numbers. No wonder analog and digital sound so different! Ex-movie theater ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. This year marks the 20th anniversary of this column's appearance in TV Technology. I would like ...

This version of the famous song features a full band, and is the only copy that will ever be manufactured or released. Bob Dylan recording with an acoustic Gibson guitar and a harmonica in 1961 at ...

The argument for analog being better than digital goes something like this. Digital utilizes sampling so no matter how many times a second a sample is taken, there are always those spaces between ...