2017-05-01, 02:21 AM
I'd say yeah!
Viability of cheap VHS capture
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2017-05-01, 02:21 AM
I'd say yeah!
Thanks given by: crissrudd4554
2017-05-01, 05:17 PM
Well I got the machine and remote off eBay. Expect more questions when they arrive.
2017-05-02, 05:45 PM
Someone on VideoHelp suggested getting another VCR because all my VCRs are 'garbage'. I think this partially gets discredited by the fact that one of my VCRs is the same model my friend had. Yes I understand using a separate machine that's still the same model as another may not necessarily give you the same results but still. Furthermore the kind of VCRs that he's suggesting are in the $200-$600 range. Sorry not spending that much for another VCR. So I've made my decision. If the DMR-ES15 doesn't help, I'm just going back to what I was doing before and use the two Dazzles. They may not be perfect but they're the closest to perfection I've come to in 6 years.
2017-05-02, 09:45 PM
My hint is to get an industrial S-VHS or VHS player/recorder, or as alternavite, a consumer S-VHS recorder.
Stay with JVC and Panasonic (National) and avoid the others. If you are lucky, you can spot a good used S-VHS at a very low price - I've found one at 30€, while I paid around the equivalent of 800€ brand new around 1995, and it was a very good price at the time!
2017-05-02, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 2017-05-02, 10:46 PM by crissrudd4554.)
Thanks but I'm calling it quits after I try out the DMR-ES15. I already purchased it for $70 and Im already regretting it. Im afraid someday my bank account is gonna be empty before I even get the results I want. Odds are I'd get the VCR, something goes wrong, then I'll get a suggestion for this, then this, then this, then this, then this, and so on and so on and so on. I've been messing with this for 6 years already. I need a break. I just wish I knew what my friend had right but for some reason I don't.
2017-05-03, 01:58 AM
For the record that last post wasn't an outburst or anything. I'm just being honest. I'm grateful to all the suggestions everyone's given.
2017-05-03, 02:38 AM
But maybe the solution is in the DVD-R + VHS combo... try to find a dirty cheap S-VHS recorder (if the TBC in the DVD-R would not work) and give it a try; at least, you should be able to resell both for the same amount of money... probably!
2017-05-03, 03:07 AM
(This post was last modified: 2017-05-03, 03:10 AM by crissrudd4554.)
I'm hesitant to try a DVD/VHS combo based on a period where a friend of my fathers use to burn a lot of our VHS tapes to DVD but a few of mine he could not due to the Macrovision (Star Wars and Frankenstein springs to mind). From what I understand he used a combo deal. Also there's this (not my video).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_afXIYiaf9E I'll keep the S-VHS player under consideration but let me try the DVD Recorder first.
2017-05-03, 03:22 AM
Ah, yes. Fox, Universal, Disney... when it comes to Macrovision, they were the most persistent (I don't think Paramount joined in until later, but I know from experience their '90s tapes were pretty bad in that regard unless recorded in SLP mode).
2017-05-03, 04:15 AM
Yeah it's strange. The only Universal and Fox tapes that this friend of my dad was able to burn that I can recall off hand was a Goosebumps tape, an old 1980s Jaws 3 tape, and a 3D tape of Creature from the Black Lagoon.
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