"Clifton T. Sharp Jr." wrote: > > Eric Jorgensen wrote: > > I've heard from some that, above all this, VCRs are notorious for > > producing weak composite video signals. > > Weak, noisy signals and lots of time-base errors. There's lots of noise > from the FM demodulator circuitry (Y component), and lots of noise on the > AM-recorded chroma. The time-base errors seem to multiply from generation > to generation of tapes. > > A time-base corrector would be a really neat app. Yes, I've heard that some of the more expensive SVHS vcrs keep the time base converter running no matter what format you're viewing and outputting. Though they originally intended them to convert PAL videos to NTSC, they convert NTSC to NTSC in order to clean up the signal. This works really well if the TBC doesn't suck. Of course, this doesn't help you if you don't have $500+ to drop on a new VCR. - Eric
