tdk extra high grade vhs for super vhs et mode..exellent!

[kenmasters83]

i bought a pack of TDK ehg tapes from walgreens today and to my surpise the picture quality was a little better compared to the JVC ehg tapes i am use to using..

i noticed the colors looked cleaner and more colorful compared to the jvc and it looked exactly like jvc's super vhs tape!!

i knew TDK's standard lineup was good but i didnt expect these kind of results with their lowend vhs tape..

i heard that their EHG lineup use to be called vivid and that ehg is 2 steps below their SVHS tape??

if this is the case i imagine their svhs tape makes damn good recordings!!

i am seriously thinking about making TDK my main choice for svhs recordings..


anyone else joined the tdk bandwagon??

[piano632]

Wow, tapes, what are those? (Just kidding.) I'm surprised there are people out there still using tapes instead of DVD. I tried TDK's Vivid & DSP tapes maybe about 3 years ago and didn't think much of them. The shells were "riveted" together and cheaply made (no rollers or metal pins). I thought the colors looked a bit washed out. I preferred Fuji Pro (actually a high-grade tape) and JVC EHG-HiFi in clear colored shells (using JVC machine). I don't use tape any more, so I don't know if anything's changed since then.

[FulciLives]

E-HG has always been E-HG but VIVID I think was once HS and DSP was once Hi-Fi

I liked the TDK Hi-Fi tape back in the day (and the first Sony "V" tapes) but towards the end I found that FUJI HQ and FUJI PRO seemed the best to me.

I have always thought of JVC brand VHS tape as a joke.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[lordsmurf]

Yes! I've been saying this so much that I've turned ... um.... blue in the face!

TDK EHG/VIVID tapes, and JVC EHG/EX tapes, are excellent for S-VHS-ET recording. They do well at holding color, supressing grain (holding high res), and fend off tape dropout.

Most other VHS tapes have grain or dropout problems when used as an S-VHS-ET tape. These are the only two real contenders.

Some of the BASF pro/broadcast tapes work well too, but they're much harder to find, and quite a bit more expensive.

TDK EHG/VIVID tapes have been my choice in tape, for S-VHS-ET use, for about 6-7 years now.