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Frankly, I captured few VHS (Star Wars) and had not copy protection related problems... maybe those tapes have not it, or my capture card bypass it... well, if you can use a DVD recorder as passthrough, I'd give it a try, *maybe* it could defeat the copy protection, but probably it will not...
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Hopefully the next tuner thing I use will just record it the way I want it to come out or at least very close that I can live it. I was only asking because TBC seems to be coming up a lot now and honestly I dont know how that works. What to use, where to put it, when to use it (during capture? after capture?), etc. For example, if I get a DVD recorder, do I capture the video with my normal program first and then run it through the DVD recorder afterwards or do I want both running together? Second do I want the recorder hooked through the VCR or the computer or both? Perhaps some of this is logical but again I dont know.
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TBC stands for Time Base Corrector; it stabilize the picture, putting the horizontal lines in sync; just connect the VHS output to the TBC input, and the TBC output to the capture card input.
AFAIK, every DVD recorder have a TBC, so just replace the TBC with the DVD recorder in the previous chain.
Hope this helps!
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How much help would a video stabilizer be should I not go the TBC route??
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Even if a so-called stabilizer could help somehow, it would not improve quality as mush as a TBC could do - unless it has a TBC inside it, of course... the latter could be obtained at a price starting at 50 bucks, so it could be a good investment, in the optic of price/quality increase. But this is up to you; to me, I'll buy one even for few tapes, then eventually I'd resell it for the same price.
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Hmmm we'll see. My reluctance to try TBC stems from knowing it might not bypass the Macrovision as well as the pricing so may have to keep gambling on capture devices for the time being.