[MacDV] Re: Betamax to MiniDV?

[James Asherman]

Jon Blumhagen wrote:

>>Subject: [MacDV] Re: Betamax to MiniDV?
>>
>>You can get adapters for them (Radio Shack?) so that you can use RCA
>>plugs. They're pretty cheap.
>>
>>Rick
>>
>>On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 10:28 PM, Macintosh Digital Video List
>>wrote:
>>
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>>
>>>'am wondering about these BNC outputs on the back of the Betamax
>>>player?
>>>
>>>Any ideas on the interface?
>>>      
>>>
>
>Is the output on the BNCs no better than that of the RCA plugs? Seems
>curious for THE STANDARD of years past.
>
>jb
>  
>

The big differences are the wire guage and that the BNC locks so it 
maybe doesn't come out
when you trip over it. besides that they are contemporaneous standards.
Jim