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Re: FM audio recording?

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From: Douglas B. Plate
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1987 13:11
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In article <231@piglet.UUCP> sjb@piglet.UUCP (Seth J. Bradley) writes:
)) How come FM was never widely used for audio recording?
)
)
)I believe HiFi VCRs record the audio portion in Frequency Modulation.
)The problem with recording audio in FM on a fixed head deck is the
)ungodly bandwidth FM requires.  15KHz stereo broadcasts use about
)160 KHz of bandwidth, and it would be difficult, if not impossible,
)to get that kind of frequency response on a fixed head deck.  And
)as long as you have a rotating head, why not go to DAT?

Just to clarify:
"An FM broadcast channel is 200kHz wide."  
-Electronic Communication,  Robert L. Shrader  (my tech school text book).

		Doug Plate
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From: plate@dicome.UUCP (Douglas B. Plate)
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Subject: Re: FM audio recording?
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