Does ALL DVDRecorders capture the bottom noiseline from VHS?

[leffe]

Today I bought the JVC DR-M10S.
And I am really satisfied with the quality of the recordings i made (even up to 3hours on one disc!)

But the downside is that I cant find any option to crop or zoom before capture.

On tvcards its easy to youst add a black border over the trackingline error or whats it called, before encode.

Does any DVDRecorder support this function to add a black border on the bottom of the video in realtime?

I quess I cant youst add a black border in some DVD Authoring application without re-encode the whole thing?

[lordsmurf]

Why does it matter?

And no, most capture cards cannot crop it either.
Only a select few.

And "cropping" is terrible advice. You might want to mask it at most (cover it with black), but stretching and cropping ruins the image.

[leffe]

Ok tnx
I guess im youst always looking for errors when I buy new machines (before the "return back to store week" is over), so I was worried I had done a bad choice.

And I only see this line when i watch the DVDs in my computer, so maby its not a big deal.

I was almoust waiting an answer like: Why didnt u buy the x model 5$ more and u get rid of the line or something.

Ok I see now i formulated that one bad i mean.
That when I capture to avi with my tv-card I have a choice to add border in tmpgenc, youst to hide the border.

[redwudz]

As you noticed, it only shows up on a computer monitor. A TV has 'Overscan' that hides the edges of a capture. From the 'Glossary' to the left. <<<

"Overscan
The area at the edges of a television tube that is covered to hide possible video distortion. Overscan typically covers about 4 or 5 percent of the picture."

If your final destination is TV, you should safely be able to ignore the distortion.

[leffe]

ok tnx

[Dragonsf]

As you noticed, it only shows up on a computer monitor. A TV has 'Overscan' that hides the edges of a capture. From the 'Glossary' to the left. <<<

"Overscan
The area at the edges of a television tube that is covered to hide possible video distortion. Overscan typically covers about 4 or 5 percent of the picture."

If your final destination is TV, you should safely be able to ignore the distortion.

Please change that to:
If your final destination is CRT TV, you should safely be able to ignore the distortion. On TFT screens there is no overscan that I know of.

[redwudz]

Dragonsf, agreed. I was thinking of the more common CRT TV. I'm not that familiar with TFT TVs.

[Dragonsf]

Dragonsf, agreed. I was thinking of the more common CRT TV. I'm not that familiar with TFT TVs.

I know, I had to change my knowledge too after buying a WS HDTV TFT . I have to blank/crop those parts (top and bottom) before converting to DVD. There are some drawbacks going to modern equipment, but it's worth.

[lordsmurf]

Better equipment has filters that zoom the overscan.

[psychotronicfilms]

I've noticed the same problem when I use my InFocus digital video projector to view my homemade DVD-Rs that I made on a Panny E-85.

It's a minor bummer.

Yip.

- Jim