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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I've also heard on the net that you can poke a hole in a regular VHS tape in a certain place and trick S-VHS decks into recording an S-VHS signal on them(the only hitch being that the tapes erase them selves in about a month). Some day I'll get off my but and test it as I have a hard time believeing that.
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This is part true. You just make a hole in the bottom of the cassette shell in the same place it is on a S-VHS tape. Jut have to be careful you don't drop any plastic shavings in the new hole.
I've done that, and the recordings didn't self-erase. Then again I always used high quality VHS tapes like Fuji "Super HG" tape and they worked fine, better for SP speed recordings. At SLP there was always a little more grain and noise than using a proper S-VHS tape. My favorite S-VHS tapes were Fuji Pro-S and Fuji H471S.