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These pulses are generated in the videorecorder by a separate head which are recorded on a separate narrow track at the side of the video tape.
A hi-fi videorecorder is also suitable as a high-quality audio recorder, not only because of the professional recording quality, but also because of the long play possibilities and the low recording costs.
This is possible as the videorecorder has a built-in oscillator (or small sender), that generates a carrier frequency similar to the frequency of the channel reserved for VCR.