VHS vcr with scart/svideo out

Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite via scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have s-video out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

"nick" wrote in message
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has
composite via scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have
s-video out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.


The old adage is true, crap in = crap out!

Your recordings are in composite and will still be of composite
quality if you converted them SVHS (or indeed feed them through
a Digibeta broadcast deck and out via SDI), I suspect that your real
problem is in your computer capture method - what are you using to
capture, please don't say a USB device...

"nick" wrote in message
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite via
scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have s-video
out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

Upmarket Panasonic vcr's have 3D DNR and TBC which seem to make a good job
of cleaning up old recordings. I think they stand for "3 dimensional dynamic
noise reduction" and "time base correction". They also have s-video output.

In article , nick
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite
via scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have s-video
out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

There are some JVC VCRs that will provide S-video out; you will get the
best performance if your tapes are SVHS.

--
Ian G8ILZ

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"nick" wrote in message
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has
composite via
scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have
s-video
out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

Upmarket Panasonic vcr's have 3D DNR and TBC which seem to make a
good job
of cleaning up old recordings. I think they stand for "3
dimensional dynamic
noise reduction" and "time base correction". They also have s-video
output.


Are you saying that they will convert a composite signal into a
s-video one, or will the above machine just 'clean up' the composite?

In article ,
nick wrote:
Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite via
scart, and the quality is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many
available) have s-video out? Reading the spec's on these tells me
nothing.

VHS is rubbish. And there's little point in having an S-Video output
unless the tapes are recorded as S-VHS.

--
*One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.

Dave Plowman London SW
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"nick" wrote in message
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has
composite via
scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available) have
s-video
out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

Upmarket Panasonic vcr's have 3D DNR and TBC which seem to make a
good job
of cleaning up old recordings. I think they stand for "3
dimensional dynamic
noise reduction" and "time base correction". They also have s-video
output.


Are you saying that they will convert a composite signal into a
s-video one, or will the above machine just 'clean up' the composite?

They clean up the composite signal and output it as s-video. The main
advantage is the cleaning up, due to better than average noise reduction.
There would not be any significant difference between the composite and
s-video output quality on this or any other vcr unless the original tape was
S-VHS.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
nick wrote:
Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite via
scart, and the quality is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many
available) have s-video out? Reading the spec's on these tells me
nothing.

VHS is rubbish.

S-VHS can look quite impressive. They comb filter the composite input so E-E
looks very little different to RGB, and have a playback TBC which gets rid
of all the chroma noise you usually get. Compared with a DVD Recorder in 4
hour or 6 hour mode, the S-VHS looks better.

In article ,
Stephen wrote:
Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has composite
via scart, and the quality is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not
many available) have s-video out? Reading the spec's on these tells
me nothing.

VHS is rubbish.

S-VHS can look quite impressive.

It can do - compared to VHS. I got it when it first came out. And the
machine still works. ;-)

They comb filter the composite input so
E-E looks very little different to RGB,

Depends on what you're watching on. ;-)

and have a playback TBC which
gets rid of all the chroma noise you usually get.

ITYM 'most', not 'all'.

Compared with a DVD
Recorder in 4 hour or 6 hour mode, the S-VHS looks better.

But not in half speed to get the same playing time. Half speed is
impressive in monochrome, though.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Capturing my old vhs-c tapes onto my pc. My video only has
composite via
scart, and the quality
is rubbish. What new vcr's (there are not many available)
have
s-video
out? Reading the spec's on
these tells me nothing.

Upmarket Panasonic vcr's have 3D DNR and TBC which seem to make
a
good job
of cleaning up old recordings. I think they stand for "3
dimensional dynamic
noise reduction" and "time base correction". They also have
s-video
output.


Are you saying that they will convert a composite signal into a
s-video one, or will the above machine just 'clean up' the
composite?

They clean up the composite signal and output it as s-video. The
main
advantage is the cleaning up, due to better than average noise
reduction.
There would not be any significant difference between the composite
and
s-video output quality on this or any other vcr unless the original
tape was
S-VHS.


So in effect they are outputting a composite signal as s-video, the
OP could but a separate box of trick (to adjust colour balance and
re-sync the time-base etc.) far cheaper than a high end VCR. I still
suspect that the real problem is in the way the OP is digitising the
video stream to his computer.