Capture VHS via standalone DVDR

[nikoska]

Please give me your opinion.
I am intending to make DVDs from my old VHS cassetes. I am about to buy one of the following DVDRecorders:
-Pioneer DVR-320
-Philips DVD-R75

Both have the same price. Could you help me please?

[wingnut]

Morning,

you may want to rethink this. I'm pretty sure that both of those units don't have a hardware (i.e. "real") timebase corrector. I was struggling through converting my extensive VHS collection (old TV shows that will never see the light of day on DVD - anyone remember "The Wanderer"? No, didn't think so) using an ati card and seriously hit problems with picture deterioration and break up.

I looked at the philips but if your tapes are less than 100% stable on playback it glitches, I have no experience of the pioneer but I'm sure someone on here posted that it didn't have a real time base corrector and so had the same problems.

I have a panasonic E55 with TBC which works realy well up to around the 3 hour per DVD mark, I wouldn't record anything to archive above that length on (my) DVD set top recorder. I'm also hearing good things about the latest JVC units but, again, I'm afraid I dont have the technical specs here (Lord Smurf was strongly backing these units so he may know a little more about them)



If it's of any use to you this is my method
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For VHS I tend to record on the E55 then take the RAM disk and re-author on my PC using mpeg2vcr. (If the VHS is really horrid (some of my analogue satelite recordings have horrendous amounts of noise in the right hand overscan area that leaks) I record at XP (1 hour per disk) then run it through virtualdubmod and re-encode to half D1) The final recording is then chaptered and menus added through DVD Lab PRO beta 6.

Cheers

Edz

[nikoska]

"TBC (Time Base Corrector) LSI for efficient jitter-free"

the above is written in specifications of the pioneer dvr-320. Is it the one you are talking about?

[wingnut]

Hi

could well be, I may well have been wrong (aplogies to Pioneer if so) but you may want to run a search on the forums as I'm almost sure I remember someone saying it wasn't an effective TBC (IIRC)

Cheers

Edz

[Sam Ontario]

Please give me your opinion.
I am intending to make DVDs from my old VHS cassetes. I am about to buy one of the following DVDRecorders:
-Pioneer DVR-320
-Philips DVD-R75

Both have the same price. Could you help me please?

I am using a Philips DVDR75. It has a lot of editing features on a DVD+RW disc. No where near perfect but I am happy with it. With normal VHS tapes, recording with 4-hour mode is good enough.

Since you have old tapes, an alternative is the LiteOn LVW5005 or LVW5001 (there are many clones such as gateway 230, Daytek DVR-P30, Akai DW120 etc.). I used to own a Daytek DVR-P30. The picture quality from these DVD recorders are good enough for your purpose.

[yoda313]

Hello,

wingnut-(old TV shows that will never see the light of day on DVD - anyone remember "The Wanderer"? No, didn't think so)

Just a shot in the dark here: was that the show about a guy and a time traveling watch? I remember a show about a guy and a kid that traveled through time with an old watch and ended up on the Titanic and other stuff. I think it was ABC not sure. The guys name was Phylius I think. If I got the wrong show sorry. I just thought I'd take a try.

Kevin
P.S. I did a quick yahoo search and got some hits but not this show. By the way, you wouldn't happen to know what show I'm talking about do you?

[nikoska]

I am using a Philips DVDR75... No where near perfect...

Are you talking about the recorded picture quality or about the editing capabilities?

[Phantom Of The Opera]

I used to own a Daytek DVR-P30.

Why "used to"? Did you get rid of it because you didn't like it? (The Daytek is one of the models I may buy later this year, and I want to get honest feedback from those who have experience with this unit).

Thanks.

[lordsmurf]

The TBC's in the DVD recorders may as well not even exist. They are nowhere near full, true TBC's. They do almost nothing. I've seen better TBC's in S-VHS video cameras.

[Sam Ontario]

I am using a Philips DVDR75... No where near perfect...

Are you talking about the recorded picture quality or about the editing capabilities?

Editing capabilty!

[Sam Ontario]

I used to own a Daytek DVR-P30.

Why "used to"? Did you get rid of it because you didn't like it? (The Daytek is one of the models I may buy later this year, and I want to get honest feedback from those who have experience with this unit).

Thanks.

I sold it because of it has no editing capabilty and I cannot edit it on my Philips DVDR75 DVD recorder. Its a good recorder and is very easy to use. Its very good and very reliable if you are just using it for recording VHS tapes to DVD+RW or DVD+R. You will not regret it. Its also region free and MV free.

I bought it with the same simple requirement as most people but my wife likes Karaoke a lot that I decided to buy in May, 2004 the Philips DVDR75 which has a lot of editing features on the DVD+RW discs, especially the selection of songs with thumbnails (titles) on a DVD with some 40 favourite Karaoke songs.

My wife is capable of operating Daytek but it proved to be a daunting task for her to operate the Philips.

[wingnut]

Hello,

wingnut-(old TV shows that will never see the light of day on DVD - anyone remember "The Wanderer"? No, didn't think so)

Just a shot in the dark here: was that the show about a guy and a time traveling watch? I remember a show about a guy and a kid that traveled through time with an old watch and ended up on the Titanic and other stuff. I think it was ABC not sure. The guys name was Phylius I think. If I got the wrong show sorry. I just thought I'd take a try.

Kevin
P.S. I did a quick yahoo search and got some hits but not this show. By the way, you wouldn't happen to know what show I'm talking about do you?

Wow, no, not heard of that one but then I'm over here in the UK and it may not have made it this far. No, the wanderer was a weird little show starring Bryan "no I wont do tv, oh ok then" brown. It did have a "time travel(ish)" link in that he had been buried and then brought back to life many years later, check out http://www.whom.co.uk/whom/wanderer.htm for a quick look.

I'll be converting it to DVD when I've finished the (massive) pile of DR WHO and other VHS that's slowly turning to oxidised, mouldy plastic tape at present

You've peeked my interest though, I'll have to try to find the show you describe now. It will add to my ongoing quest to find the title of a book I read 20 yeas ago. All I remember is that it was regarding a time travel experiment by a Doctor Khan, he turns renegade and becomes Kubla-Khan and builds Xanadu, one day I'll find that darned book!!

Anyhoo, don't want to hijack the thread..

Cheers All

Edz

[wingnut]

Hello,

wingnut-(old TV shows that will never see the light of day on DVD - anyone remember "The Wanderer"? No, didn't think so)

Just a shot in the dark here: was that the show about a guy and a time traveling watch? I remember a show about a guy and a kid that traveled through time with an old watch and ended up on the Titanic and other stuff. I think it was ABC not sure. The guys name was Phylius I think. If I got the wrong show sorry. I just thought I'd take a try.

Kevin
P.S. I did a quick yahoo search and got some hits but not this show. By the way, you wouldn't happen to know what show I'm talking about do you?

Wow, no, not heard of that one but then I'm over here in the UK and it may not have made it this far. No, the wanderer was a weird little show starring Bryan "no I wont do tv, oh ok then" brown. It did have a "time travel(ish)" link in that he had been buried and then brought back to life many years later, check out http://www.whom.co.uk/whom/wanderer.htm for a quick look.

I'll be converting it to DVD when I've finished the (massive) pile of DR WHO and other VHS that's slowly turning to oxidised, mouldy plastic tape at present

You've peeked my interest though, I'll have to try to find the show you describe now. It will add to my ongoing quest to find the title of a book I read 20 yeas ago. All I remember is that it was regarding a time travel experiment by a Doctor Khan, he turns renegade and becomes Kubla-Khan and builds Xanadu, one day I'll find that darned book!!

Anyhoo, don't want to hijack the thread..

Cheers All

Edz

Just in case anyone else was being driven slowly mad trying to track this book it's called "The Men Who Mastered Time" by David Butler, it's out of print but I tracked a copy down on Amazon second hand. We now return you to your regularly scheduled DVD & Video topics

Edz