[anarco]

VHS is not able to hold full NTSC or PAL

VHS does a horizontal resolution of 240 lines is in pixels ~320
S-VHS instead does 420 lines (which is comparable to 640x480 pixels).

Example:
A PAL Broadcast comes in with 520 lines and 576 rows, recording it to VHS instead of directly recording to HDD would be stupid. You get the full 576 rows but not more than 240-250 lines.

However back to the subject... for good captures you should at least be able to capture sVHS resolutions. But any cheap BT 878 does 768x576 anyway... its more a matter of your other hardware and not to forget the playing quality of your VCR.


Fact is VHS or sVHS tapes DO NOT hold full PAL or NTSC resolutions.