Can anyone here tell me the differene between...

SP
LP
EP

Does EP make the episode have bad quality?

SP = 2 hours
LP = 4 hours
EP = 6 hours

Using EP won't necessarily give you bad quality, but it will be worse than LP or SP. The slower the speed you use, the better quality you will get.

The slower the speed you use, the better quality you will get.
For any given second/minute/hour of recording time, more tape is used at SP than at EP therefore, the tape is moving faster, not slower. It is because the signal is being spread out over more tape as it moves faster that results in SP being better than LP or EP. When talking in terms of DVD, it's not about speed at all but compression with SP being less compressed than LP or EP, i.e. more data is included per second/minute/hour of time at SP.

Yeah, that's what I meant. I always seem to get faster/slower mixed up in that sense.

EP is also known as SLP. As many of us have found over the years, picture quality degrades with EP. You also get tracking and "jumpy picture" problems over time. SP holds up well so long as you store the tapes properly.

SP = 2 hours
LP = 4 hours
EP = 6 hours

Using EP won't necessarily give you bad quality, but it will be worse than LP or SP. The slower the speed you use, the better quality you will get.
Also MisterEd SP has better quality than EP.

for dvds, i prefer to do larger sets at 4 hour speed
i mean, NOONE WANTS a 45 disc set of ALICE do they?
and smaller sets at 2 hour speed
UNLESS the quality is not so hot to start with then i will keep it at SP speed to make it best i can:wave:

And with EP vhs's i've noticed with some that overtime, they start to deteriate and get sound blurps. where it just blurps out part of it, or however you ccall it.

Okay, thanks for posting everyone! I don't want to use SP because then I can only fit 2 episodes per disc and with LP I can fit 4. I was just curious about EP. Thanks again. :wave:

I tend to use LP for all DVDs I make. I figure the quality difference is so minimal that it isn't worth using double the amount of DVDs.

of the time that is the case!