I just wanted to let you guys know that having now used a Tenlab TR11-svhs standards converter,Sansung 300Wvcr,Panasonic ag1-W1vcr and Canopus Procoder express and Tempgenc express for software.

The best has to be Procoder, but it takes time, so hardware solutions are attractive:-

The tenlab produces too much image change, the panasonic I have is quite old and playing a tape on it was not great, so I just tried the Samsung and Panasonic as pass throughs ntsc in pal out for instance from a JVC sr 10u to either my advc300 or a dvd recorder and got great results, the Panasonic is about 15% better I would say.

Another way you can do it, is to use a dvd recorder, RJ/Daytek to name but two which deal with pal/ntsc convert and connect your vcr to the input and use the dvd recorder as a converter to another vcr or dvd recorder.

Hope this helps you guys, thanks