I want to tape some cable programs for a friend who does not have HBO
& mail them the cassettes. My VCR supports SP, LP & SLP. Their VCR
supports SP & EP. I see on the tape box (T-160) that both EP & SLP
provide 8 hours of recording. This is the speed I generally use and
prefer due to the recording length, but the last time I prepared a
tape for the VCR in question, the audio was very muffled. I tried the
tape on another VCR in the area, it too was muffled. I'm not sure
what the available speeds were on this 2nd VCR, but it was pretty old.
I had attributed this sound degradation to the fact that I had taken
the tapes to my friend on an airplane, & it occurred to me the tape
may have been effected by the x ray security scan (I realize x rays by
themselves would probably not have this effect, but it seems possible
a magnetic field in the x ray machine, perhaps from the large high
voltage transformer x ray units generally contain, might have harmed
the tape). So my question (FINALLY! ;-) is will a tape recorded on my
machine in SLP play on a machine with the speeds SP & EP?

TIA

David