I have several nth gen tapes that are causing me a great amount of grief when attempting to capture due to dropped frames. It is my understanding this is often caused by bad timecodes on the tape. To solve this, I purchased a VCR with a built in TCB -- but apparantly the 2MB buffer isn't enough to handle the job.

Just recently I read that using DV one can take a blank tape, record it all the way through the camera with the lens cap on (create a "black tape") and this will establish a timecode on the tape. According to this information recording the "broken" video to the black DV will "fix" the time code problems.

The question I have is does this really work for DV and would it work for a VHS (analog) tape?

Thanks!