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  1. Greetings, all. If you're on the fence about whether or not to try using a Panasonic DMR-ESXX series DVD recorder in your capture workflow (as a budget TBC, or frame corrector, or whatever you wanna call it), here are of couple of tests I did to see for myself if it made much of a difference (positively or negatively) or not. Judge for yourself and see if you wanna give this method a shot.

    I must admit I deliberately left out the exact Panasonic model number, for two reasons: 1) I don't know for sure which models work like this, and, more importantly 2) I'm now going to ebay to get me a few more of these babies for backup, and I'll be darned if I'm gonna reveal my sources before I stock up on them myself!

    VHS video capture without Panasonic DMR passthrough:

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t4wuz9axsbatorlp8y7z5/Airshow-capture-no-dvd-passthroug...=k1zj6qd6&dl=0

    VHS video capture WITH Panasonic DMR passthrough (i.e. DVD recorder working as cheap TBC, frame corrector, whatever)

    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ae6rdq0a7hke0sah2u3ds/Airshow-capture-WITH-dvd-passthro...=httn06yf&dl=0

    P.S. This is a really old tape, c. 1987, and it was filmed by me using a portable Panasonic VCR with a battery pack, the whole thing weighed about 40 lbs., and I had to walk to around it all day while trying to shoot the video with a shoulder-mounted video camera with a "Newvicon" video tube, known for streaking and limited color range, but man, it was a huge upgrade to the ancient 8mm film camera I had. So if you have any issues with the basic quality of my video, or you don't like air shows, feel free to flake off.
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