Recording Official FIRST Footage

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

As far as an RCA splitter, I wouldn't reccomend doing that unless it's an absolute last ditch measure. Splitting the video signal like that will significantly degrade the signal quality for both teams. The same goes for looping through VCR outputs, just not as much. The signal quality will drop a little for each pass-through. You can get a cheap Distribution Amplifier from radio shack that will do a much better job of splitting the signal. Just check with the AV people before plugging it in, as you might cause a ground feedback loop and put a 60Hz hum in the audio and video for the entire event.

Actually it really doesn't. In UTC 2002 I remember there was a bunch of VCR's that were series attached to on another and there wasn't any signal degradation that I noticed on my tape. Unless of course there are cruddy wires that are present in the series of VCRs.
I have used a RCA splitter for a while now, (2+ years) and have not seen any degradation of either the audio or the video signal.