Abenteuer Wissenschaft SDR 1988 full broadcast. Source Umatic High-band tape.

Abenteuer Wissenschaft SDR 1988 full broadcast. Source Umatic High-band tape.
A program from German television 1988 Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR). Probably an archive tape on Umatic High-band. Was in some boxes of umatic tapes I purchased.
Topics: ice crystals, Jewish history in World War II, AIDS.
Presenter: Walter Sucher.

[@KylesDigitalLab]

I always wonder why only the PAL regions got the "hi-band" U-matic. In NTSC countries even the BVU series machines still used lo-band. The only difference though was the color under frequency, it was normally 688kHz but hi-band brought it up to about 900kHz.

[@videotaperetro1126]

Hi Kyle, not quite right. Read this section in the article "INTRODUCTION OF HIGH-BAND AND SP FOR PAL COUNTRIES"
oxfordarchiving.co.uk/privacy-policy/f/u-matic-low-band-high-band-video-tape-conversions-in-oxford-uk
I have a VO-9850 (High-Band and Umatic-SP) and a VO-7630 (low band) and another low band portable. I can still tell you this:
You can only record in High-Band and SP on an SP machine. Can reproduce Low-Band though. If you put a Umatic-SP cassette in the SP machine you can only record in SP mode. You cannot switch back to High-Band mode. The Dolby noise reduction for sound only works in SP mode. If you have recorded in Dolby, the machine automatically detects during playback that the sound has been recorded in Dolby and thus automatically turns on Dolby in playback. You cannot turn it off. So important to know that also High-Band has a higher FM modulation frequency and so also a higher luminance resolution for PAL. SP even better for PAL and NTSC but color frequency is the same as High-Band.

[@ivok9846]

even in 1988 Germany, only studio shots are video, everything else is film stock, just like it was 10 or even 15 years before....
probably 16mm film, which looks worse than broadcast grade sd.
why?
maybe non-optimal film scanning, maybe 16mm is just not that good....
and 50p HD for such content is just wasting bandwidth...
esp. given that all underlying film is 25fps anyway