Best HDMI VCR for LP tapes?

[Master Tape]

I have a friend who is currently capturing videos, but he's having trouble playing cheap LP tapes on his Toshiba, they keep jumping and going squeaky. Is there any better brands and models that will handle them fine and play SP tapes nice aswell of course.

Has to be one that outputs HDMI due to his current setup, and a PAL model.

[timtape]

It's not just brand or model. Condition, condition, condition. Not when it was new but now.

[rgr]

Has to be one that outputs HDMI.

Good luck

[lollo]

Better to split into a high-end S-VHS VCR and one of the recommended DVD-Recorder in pass through mode with HDMI output.

Some hints here: https://gleitz-info.translate.goog/forum/index.php?thread/47572-tutorial-hochwertiges-..._x_tr_pto=wapp and on many thread in the forum.

[themaster1]

Squealing, jumping.. sounds like early stages of sticky shed to me. Solution for that would be to bake 'em not another pricy vcr. Then again i don't have the tapes in my hands , just some thoughts

[aramkolt]

SDI and HDMI can be losslessly converted to each other, so another option would be a professional TBC that has SDI output to then convert to HDMI using any number of products. More budget friendly option would be the DVD/HDD recorder passthrough method that others have mentioned. I think several of the Panasonic models can do it. The DMR-EZ series does allow for HDMI output from the VHS deck and has TBC like properties if it needs to be a single device.

If it really is making squealing noises in the machine, definitely could be sticky tape, or perhaps the case is just rubbing on the hubs as they turn.

[timtape]

Sticky Shed in VHS tapes seems to be rare. But if one SSS tape has been played in a machine, the deposits can affect subsequent playback of perfectly good tapes. Before playing any more tapes the deposits must be completely removed from the machine's tape path.

A SSS tape will contaminate any VCR regardless of its "quality". Muck is muck.

But we cant be sure what is going on here. Why not upload a short video so we can see and hear for ourselves?

[ozymango]

Sorry I'm a bit late to the conversation, but one of the issues with LP ("long play") mode on VCRs, is, that it was never an official standard -- only SP and EP were officially supported by JVC, the creator of the VHS VCR, and as a matter of fact I don't know of any JVC brand VCRs that will record in LP. They *may* play back LP, but in any case, the best way to play back an LP VHS tape is to play it on the exact same machine you recorded it on. Yeah, like that's an option.

Anyway if you don't have the original VCR that recorded these tapes, any chance of at least finding out the brand of VCR they were recorded on? If so, I'd try and see if I could find that brand of VCR (doesn't have to be the exact model, just the brand should be close enough) and see if that gives you any better output. A shot in the dark, I know. Good luck!

EDIT: If you wrote "LP" but really meant "EP" then just get yourself a VCR that doesn't squeak when it plays.

EDIT EDIT: But if you did mean "LP" meaning Long Play (4hr mode) and not EP/SLP (6hr mode), then I *think* that maybe Panasonic "created" the LP mode, which JVC didn't like, and so *maybe* a Panasonic VHS VCR would be your best bet for playing back an LP tape. Maybe.

[aramkolt]

The modern S-VHS JVCs I haven't really run across a machine that won't play LP, mainly because it does this thing when a non-SP tape is converted and runs it past the head for several seconds in each direction which I think is to determine what the playback speed should be based on the frequency of the control pulses or something to that effect.