I Want to Buy a JVC Super VHS Video Recorder, but will it..

[VEBouto]

Improve the quality of non Super VHS tapes that i have recorded, by connecting via the S-Video output and into my computer.
I get the feeling that it will only enhance the Video quality of my commercial VHS Tapes.
I am converting VHS to DVD.
Thanks.

[victoriabears]

Well it has on my tapes, according to the views here it doesn't but I can tell you it does!

[Nilfennasion]

Once you have recorded a VHS tape in composite, you are stuck with the composite artefacts. Playing them through S-video connections will not change this.

[davideck]

The VHS/SVHS format is component; chrominance and luminance components are recorded separately. An S Video output allows you to playback these two components directly to a capture card. A composite output combines them, forcing the capture card to separate them again. The separation process introduces artifacts, so it is reasonable to assume that an S Video output will yield better results.

[kenmasters83]

dont buy a SVHS vcr...

buy a bigger hardrive an use your pc as a media center or dvd-recorder..

[lordsmurf]

Improve the quality of non Super VHS tapes that i have recorded, by connecting via the S-Video output and into my computer.
I get the feeling that it will only enhance the Video quality of my commercial VHS Tapes.
I am converting VHS to DVD.
Thanks.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!

That was the selling point to me back in the mid 90s when I got my first S-VHS unit. The comb filters (especially the JVC ones!!) do well, as do all the audio and video filters.

See this:
http://www.digitalfaq.com/capture/vcrtbcsuggestions.htm
(please note, link will be different later this month)

[barrybear]

there is no guarentte that a svhs recorder will improve your tapes on playback . My advice would be to take a tape in to the shop and try it some will some will not .
Barrybear

[gshelley61]

Playing back VHS on a top quality S-VHS machine will give you the best image possible from the tapes you have. As davideck mentioned, both VHS and S-VHS are recorded with separate luma and chroma signals, but VHS machines combine these two signals on playback to provide a composite video output. Generally, only S-VHS machines keep the luma and chroma separated on playback (through the s-video output). This can result in a sharper. more detailed image... even for VHS.

Commercially produced VHS tapes are duplicated on machines especially designed to maximize the bandwidth of the video signal during the recording process, so it is true that they usually look better than VHS tapes recorded on a consumer machine. Still, the key to good DVD transfer of any video source is to provide the capturing device (computer, DVD recorder) the best possible video image. A good S-VHS machine will do that for your VHS tapes.

[Tearren]

lordsmurf wrote:

VEBouto wrote:
Improve the quality of non Super VHS tapes that i have recorded, by connecting via the S-Video output and into my computer.
I get the feeling that it will only enhance the Video quality of my commercial VHS Tapes.
I am converting VHS to DVD.
Thanks.


YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.
ABSOLUTELY !!!!!

That was the selling point to me back in the mid 90s when I got my first S-VHS unit. The comb filters (especially the JVC ones!!) do well, as do all the audio and video filters.

I agree with LS, my JVC Super VHS standard tapes look much better than tapes played through composite. I have even have had friends to remark about the picture and couldn't get over how good they looked, granted this was 5 to 7 years ago.

Tearren