VHS to DVD - Pulling hair with research

[lordsmurf]

Some of the Panasonic EZ models have LSI chipsets that filter chroma noise from VHS, and suppress grain. I don't know ones, you'd need to pry the units open and look.

[victoriabears]

ES10 is known as a good pass thu machine,

https://forum.videohelp.com/topic292917.html

may be interesting, it seems the ES10-es48's mostly had lsi chips, and now the new EZ models, I just find the Panasonics make a plastic filmy image.

[SomeDay]

Hey All;

Got the JVC D-VHS system a few days back, just getting the chance to play around with it today. After playing some videos in it, I can say that it does make the picture slightly sharper. But to say it was a major difference would be a lie. I was actually a little disappointed with the outcome of a few videos I played. I am thinking its probably the settings at this point and can only hope it will get better with time and more experience.

I will say, WOW to the forward and rewind speed.. Thats how they all should have been.

On to the main question. How do I engage TBC? The only video settings I can find at this moment are V. Calibration , Picture Control , Digital R3 and Video Stabilizer.

Reading in the forums it appears as in most cases the Picture should be set to Edit. When I do this, I get better colors, sharper and more detailed video. But it does introduce grain/noise in the background.

With this D-VHS system some of my tapes have static tear marks that randomly appear in certain parts of the videos, at current time seems to be more in the really white scenes like snow, etc... But it doesn't happen in my cheap vcr. I found this odd. I haven't tried every possible senerio of combinations with the video settings as of yet, but right now I tend to lean towards everything off and edit on. But that is without knowing what each do.

When V. Calibration is turned on, I get four options in the picture control section. They are sharp, auto, edit and soft.

When V. Calibration is turned off, I get four options as well. The only difference is there is no auto and its replaced with Norm.

Digital R3 and Video Stabilizer has only two options each and that is either on or off.

Thing I am confused about is the TBC. I cannot seem to find that anywhere in the settings and the manual really doesn't mention anything about it, other then stating it has it. How does one engage this feature?


Thanks for all the help thus far.

Cheers

[Dark Mirage]

Since you are going to go to some trouble to do this, use quality DVD media and store disks properly once you are done. If this was my project, I would make at least 2 sets, and store one sealed against dust and kept away from light.

[SomeDay]

There are three other people in my family that should have these tapes. So I am going to make 5 sets. One for me, three for the others and then one for backup that is never used unless I have to make a copy. I have purchase 250 Verbatim Disc and plan on getting more.

Any people with some thoughts on the 4000U video settings?

Thanks

[victoriabears]

Have to say I thought the D-VHS did not have TBC

[gshelley61]

The JVC HM-DH40000U does have the DigiPure (TBC/DNR) filters for VHS and S-VHS recording and playback (at least according to JVC's own sales literature on this unit).

I think that in this model they didn't provide a way to shut the DigiPure feature OFF - the TBC/DNR input and output filters are always on. This is similar to how JVC implements DigiPure TBC/DNR in it's DVD recorders.

Generally, you will probably find these settings will work best on most tapes: Set the Picture Control to EDIT, the Digital R3 to OFF, and the Video Stabilizer to OFF (in other JVC models, turning the Video Stabilizer ON defeats the TBC/DNR)