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Miles
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Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:
New consumer deck vs. used pro deck? |
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I have a few VHS tapes that I would like to archive to DVD. The tapes
are all original retail, up to 10-15 years old, and vary in quality and
how often they have been played. (None are particularly bad, though.)
I have a PCI capture card with s-video input in my PC.
Which would be the best VCR to use as the source for the capture to give
the best picture quality?
A:
Brand new consumer deck with a built in TBC, such as this one:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/vcr/nvsv121ebs/index.htm
or
B:
Second-hand pro deck, with high quality tape transport and video heads
but no built-in TBC, costing £1000+ when new but can now be picked up
cheaply on eBay, e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3833709357
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GMAN
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Sun Aug 22, 2004 1:11 am Post subject:
Re: New consumer deck vs. used pro deck? |
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In article <MPG.1b906582208e6a87989699@text.news.ntlworld.com>, Miles <fake@nospam.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have a few VHS tapes that I would like to archive to DVD. The tapes
are all original retail, up to 10-15 years old, and vary in quality and
how often they have been played. (None are particularly bad, though.)
I have a PCI capture card with s-video input in my PC.
Which would be the best VCR to use as the source for the capture to give
the best picture quality?
A:
Brand new consumer deck with a built in TBC, such as this one:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/vcr/nvsv121ebs/index.htm
or
B:
Second-hand pro deck, with high quality tape transport and video heads
but no built-in TBC, costing £1000+ when new but can now be picked up
cheaply on eBay, e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3833709357
If your time is worth money like mine is, it would be cheaper in the long run |
to just purchase the same movies in DVD format. Most i bet of what you have
are now in the $9.99 range at places like walmart and bestbuy etc. The time
it would take to buy a blank, dub from VCR to computer, encode from the AVI
captured file into MPEG2 format, then mastering the DVD with menues etc (Not
necessarily needed) and finally burning to DVD blank is going to be way more
than it is worth unless you just have a few VHS that are absolutely rare and
not available in DVD or any format anymore , IMHO it is not worth the time and
trouble and you still end up with less than DVD quality (Basically vhs quality
but slightly worse, garbage in, garbage out). |
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Miles
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Sun Aug 22, 2004 3:08 am Post subject:
Re: New consumer deck vs. used pro deck? |
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In article <cg8dr3$hn6$1@news.xmission.com>,
glenzabr@nospamallowed.xmission.com says...
| Quote: | In article <MPG.1b906582208e6a87989699@text.news.ntlworld.com>, Miles <fake@nospam.com> wrote:
I have a few VHS tapes that I would like to archive to DVD. The tapes
are all original retail, up to 10-15 years old, and vary in quality and
how often they have been played. (None are particularly bad, though.)
I have a PCI capture card with s-video input in my PC.
Which would be the best VCR to use as the source for the capture to give
the best picture quality?
A:
Brand new consumer deck with a built in TBC, such as this one:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/vcr/nvsv121ebs/index.htm
or
B:
Second-hand pro deck, with high quality tape transport and video heads
but no built-in TBC, costing £1000+ when new but can now be picked up
cheaply on eBay, e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3833709357
If your time is worth money like mine is, it would be cheaper in the long run
to just purchase the same movies in DVD format. Most i bet of what you have
are now in the $9.99 range at places like walmart and bestbuy etc. The time
it would take to buy a blank, dub from VCR to computer, encode from the AVI
captured file into MPEG2 format, then mastering the DVD with menues etc (Not
necessarily needed) and finally burning to DVD blank is going to be way more
than it is worth unless you just have a few VHS that are absolutely rare and
not available in DVD or any format anymore , IMHO it is not worth the time and
trouble and you still end up with less than DVD quality (Basically vhs quality
but slightly worse, garbage in, garbage out).
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I agree completely with what you say; and I am going that route with
most of my movies.
However, the tapes I am wanting to archive to DVD are not and probably
never will be available on DVD (*original* Star Wars trilogy, several
old sports videos, etc.) |
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GMAN
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Mon Aug 23, 2004 4:35 am Post subject:
Re: New consumer deck vs. used pro deck? |
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In article <MPG.1b91d83d9cb5211798969b@text.news.ntlworld.com>, Miles <fake@nospam.com> wrote:
| Quote: | In article <cg8dr3$hn6$1@news.xmission.com>,
glenzabr@nospamallowed.xmission.com says...
In article <MPG.1b906582208e6a87989699@text.news.ntlworld.com>, Miles
fake@nospam.com> wrote:
I have a few VHS tapes that I would like to archive to DVD. The tapes
are all original retail, up to 10-15 years old, and vary in quality and
how often they have been played. (None are particularly bad, though.)
I have a PCI capture card with s-video input in my PC.
Which would be the best VCR to use as the source for the capture to give
the best picture quality?
A:
Brand new consumer deck with a built in TBC, such as this one:
http://www.panasonic.co.uk/vcr/nvsv121ebs/index.htm
or
B:
Second-hand pro deck, with high quality tape transport and video heads
but no built-in TBC, costing £1000+ when new but can now be picked up
cheaply on eBay, e.g.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3833709357
If your time is worth money like mine is, it would be cheaper in the long run
to just purchase the same movies in DVD format. Most i bet of what you have
are now in the $9.99 range at places like walmart and bestbuy etc. The time
it would take to buy a blank, dub from VCR to computer, encode from the AVI
captured file into MPEG2 format, then mastering the DVD with menues etc (Not
necessarily needed) and finally burning to DVD blank is going to be way more
than it is worth unless you just have a few VHS that are absolutely rare and
not available in DVD or any format anymore , IMHO it is not worth the time
and
trouble and you still end up with less than DVD quality (Basically vhs
quality
but slightly worse, garbage in, garbage out).
I agree completely with what you say; and I am going that route with
most of my movies.
However, the tapes I am wanting to archive to DVD are not and probably
never will be available on DVD (*original* Star Wars trilogy, several
old sports videos, etc.)
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True!!! DAMN you G. LUCAS!!!!!!!! |
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