-> NICAM as far as I know is only in the UK (Although I may be wrong!)
-> It is a digital audio signal transmitted with the video signal, that
-> means all five (wow!) of our TV channels! have CD quality stereo
-> sound.
-> But both my VCR's only record in Analogue so if you record something
-> from this source and play it back it's supposed to be degraded
-> (probably is) but so
  AFAIK, there's no NICAM here. If you could find a Beta (good luck) and 
establish whether it had a bitstream input, you could keep your recording 
digital all the way. By the way, I'm an analog kind of guy myself--LP's, 
turntables, that sort of stuff. Digital is much better now than it was 
fifteen years ago, when the CD came out.
  I have an LP released by Yamaha in 1977, I think. The master tape was done 
digitally. A similar item was Stevie Wonder's first digital record, "Hotter 
Than July", from 1980. I mean digital master tape, of course. They can't beat 
an all-analog recording chain. Time marches on.
 I used to be an audiophile, but I'm in recovery now. I've come to the 
conclusion that as long as you enjoy the music, that's the important part.
 Yours, Blair
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