Info on JVC HR-S5000

[Leighgion]

Friend of mine picked up a junk yard HR-S5000 VCR. It seems like a nice unit for its time and I was curious about some of its more detailed specs, but googling hasn't yielded anything helpful. There's a manual for it selling on eBay, but that's a bit more than I'm wanting to go into to satisfy my curiosity.

Appreciate it if anybody could fill me in or point to any resources detailing its specs. I'm especially curious about if the unit had any kind of digital filtering built-in as it has a switch labeled "notch filter."

[davideck]

No TBC/DNR or digital filtering. CCD Comb Filter.
My guess is that the Notch Filter switch lets you choose between the comb or a bandpass filter for recording composite sources.

[Leighgion]

Would that comb filter by any chance defeat macrovision?

I ask not out prospective hope, but to try to explain some empirical evidence. My friend said with her old VCR, that she was suffering the classic MV strobing when watching DVD video piped through the VCR, but that vanished with the new VCR.

[davideck]

I doubt that the comb filter has anything to do with the MV performance.
She could verify this by using an S-Video cable between the DVD player and the 5000. That would bypass the comb filter.

I think some VCR loopthrus react to MV and some don't.
But I wouldn't expect that the 5000 could record an MV protected source.

[edDV]

http://www.jvc.co.uk/files/instruction_manual/lpt0768-001a.pdf