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See No Evil
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Dick Spanner PI: 'The Case Of The Human Cannonball' & 'The Case Of The Maltese Parrot' (Released)
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26-Jan-2010, 4:50 AM

Nice VCR - has a built-in TBC I think. Don't know much about the capture card, but the later ATi Theatre chipsets are known to be pretty good.

Yes, I got this VCR specifically to transfer those two tapes I mentioned earlier. Having read up on it, I know a high end S-VHS Panasonic might have given better results, but would also have been more expensive. I got the JVC HR-7600EK for £40 second hand off Ebay. It has a digital TBC (Time Base Corrector), NR (Noise Reduction), Digital 3R (edge correction), the B.E.S.T. Picture System (Biconditional Equalized Tracking System). It can record & play in both VHS & S-VHS formats and record PAL & SECAM signals and play PAL, NTSC (as PAL-60) & MESECAM tapes, as well as having all the standard VCR gubbins.

For VHS archiving I couldn't recommend this VCR more highly. They come up quite often on Ebay and can be picked up for around £30-£60. Here is a link to the PDF manual on JVC's website;

http://www.jvc.co.uk/files/instruction_manual/hr-s7600%20engelsk.pdf

One point I did notice, and something which I had to find out for myself, was that many of the units that come up on Ebay often come without remotes. You need the remote to access the system OSD menu and tinker with some of the more advanced features, you can't do that with just the buttons on the VCR unit itself. The specific HR-S7600 remote can be quite hard to find on it's own at a reasonable price, but many of the JVC VCR remotes are interchangable, I ended up getting the LP20303-003 remote for £6.99 on Ebay which I'd read should work ok (the -003 is usually the most widespread unit of the LP20303's available on there, but there are sometimes LP20303-008, -009, -014, -015, etc.. all which just differ very slightly and are usually quite cheap) The LP20303-003 remote was listed to work with other JVC VCR models, but works with my HR-7600EK VCR just fine.

With regards to the ATI All-In-Wonder 128, I've had that for about 8-ish years. I know that makes it obsolite in computing terms, but it has served me really well, especially once I started using third party capture software rather than the bundled programs that come with it (which can be quite restrictive in what options you control)

I'll be doing the VHS to PC capture this weekend when I can devote a whole day to it, so I'll post some screenshots then.