Moth3r said:

AntcuFaalb said:

OK, the Panasonic DMR-ES10 is on its way! This thing is supposedly a monster at correcting jitter.

I have one of these. Take care, the filtering on the composite input tends to destroy high-frequency detail. Not sure if this will even be an issue with VHS, however.

Examples from laserdisc, composite: http://i.imgur.com/kNNbk.png

s-video: http://i.imgur.com/NP36Z.png

Thanks for the information! Fortunately, I plan to use s-video for the Panasonic DMR-ES10's pass-through mode.

Edit: In fact, everything in my setup uses s-video.

Edit 2: I may be able to use the Panasonic DMR-ES10 to circumvent any AGC pumping issues that arise with the Hauppauge 610 USB-Live 2. In fact, burning directly to DVD may be preferable according to one of the posts in the thread you linked to in your later post:

The primary corrections the ES10 excels with (and other devices seem unable to cope with) generally apply only to multi-generational dub tapes or certain types of weirdly-recorded camcorder tapes. These can have two hard-to-fix issues: frame jitter, and/or severe bending or "flag waving" of vertical objects near the top third of the frame. The ES10 will correct the worst of these tapes to an amazing degree unmatched by even megabuck TBC hardware, but again the correction comes at a cost in overall PQ: your original tape gets converted by the ES10 not-so-great encoder, then goes thru another encoding process by your final recorder system. Multi-generation digital encoding is about as desirable as multi-gen analog dubbing: not at all. If you're fortunate enough to find an ES10 with a still-functioning burner, you could record direct to that and skip the second encoding from a pass-through setup. But you'll still end up with a so-so ES10 result, and the DVDs it produced were known to have some formatting issues with audio and frame sizing (obscure issues, but they do bother some users). Its best used as a pass-through to a more modern recorder.