Did Mo-fi at one time have audiophile music on video tapes

[spotlightkid]

I seem to remember that mo-fi was going to release audiophile music put on beta and vhs video tapes-did this ever happen
i think some of the titles were going to be-donald fagen,earl klugh
and supertramp.did these tapes ever actually get manufactured.

[KLM]

I remember a couple of these VHS tapes being auctioned off on ebay and I assume they are authentic. Don't recall a lot o about these or how they were played.

[Holy Zoo]

http://www.aurealm.com/cranberry.htm

[spotlightkid]

Holy Zoo-thanks for web page

[RetroSmith]

Originally posted by KLM
I remember a couple of these VHS tapes being auctioned off on ebay and I assume they are authentic. Don't recall a lot o about these or how they were played.

<<<,Yes, this "format' for audio never took off, even tho the freq range in a good stereo deck was as good as a 15 ips reel to reel.

I've traded with collectors in this format, it DOES let you fit alot of high quality sound on one tape.

They only way to play it is to hook your VCR stereo outputs to your stereo, OR of course play the sound thru your TV.

I actually have a stereo VCR dedicated ONLY to audio use. They are so cheap now, and occasionally I need to transfer something off the audio track of a VHS movie to Hard disk. This does the trick!!

[Holy Zoo]

I'm pretty sure these were special PCM encoded tapes, not just VHS-HiFi, and that you had to have an outboard PCM decoder.

Can anyone confirm?

[Sckott]

There were PCM playback decks using VHS tapes. Those decks lived for a short time though the 80's and I haven't seen one in a long time. They were a forerunner to what we know as DAT, which is very similar in many simple ways.