timebasecorrector or video stabilizer for old vhs

Crucio · 29th March 2003, 21:24

I did a search in this forum and the web, and couldnt really come up with a straight answer as to whether either a TBC or a Video Stabilizer would actually improve the quality of video captured. The video stabilizers ive seen are more for macrovision correction, and the tbc for vhs copying.

I currently have a dualy system with a dvstorm2 and im making digital copies of some older vhs, because they are old, the picture sometimes distorts and stuff, normal vhs stuff, but could a TBC or VS help fix that?

thankyou

Ookami · 31st March 2003, 14:27

http://tangentsoft.net/video/tbc1000.html

BTW, I will, probably, buy the TBC-100:

http://www.dvt.com.au/enhancers/datavideo.html

Crucio · 31st March 2003, 23:14

doesnt, according to http://www.dvt.com.au/enhancers/datavideo.html, a high level capture card do the same thing as a TBC though?

^^-+I4004+-^^ · 1st April 2003, 01:19

tbc doesn't alter the videosignal,it only
tries to correct sync signals
(horizontal and vertical ones...)
it can't "improve the quality",but if you make
flickering picture stable,or
you make rolling video not rolling then you may call
this improvement..in image stability....(hehe)
(actuall video signal is the same....ok,not exactly the same
probably quality will suffer from one extra a/d conversion
and subsequent d/a one that tbc does..only it is fitted with new sync
signals so that you have normal image)

if image distors,tbc should help...it's made for that purpose....
but probbaly wont help id teh signal is "Out of reach"....
you try and tell me.......

fasttimes · 14th April 2003, 01:03

http://www.avtoolbox.com/avt-8710.htm has a very good, and cheap ($180) TBC. Works like a champ, and makes capping analog tape much easier. Worth the money!

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Crucio Rebel without Applause Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: north america Posts: 166	timebasecorrector or video stabilizer for old vhs I did a search in this forum and the web, and couldnt really come up with a straight answer as to whether either a TBC or a Video Stabilizer would actually improve the quality of video captured. The video stabilizers ive seen are more for macrovision correction, and the tbc for vhs copying. I currently have a dualy system with a dvstorm2 and im making digital copies of some older vhs, because they are old, the picture sometimes distorts and stuff, normal vhs stuff, but could a TBC or VS help fix that? thankyou

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Ookami Xe-Rotaredom Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Croatia Posts: 1,029	http://tangentsoft.net/video/tbc1000.html BTW, I will, probably, buy the TBC-100: http://www.dvt.com.au/enhancers/datavideo.html __________________ "Only those who attempt the absurd achieve the impossible."

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Crucio Rebel without Applause Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: north america Posts: 166	doesnt, according to http://www.dvt.com.au/enhancers/datavideo.html, a high level capture card do the same thing as a TBC though?

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^^-+I4004+-^^ Banned Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Croatia [local name:Hrvatska] Posts: 551	tbc doesn't alter the videosignal,it only tries to correct sync signals (horizontal and vertical ones...) it can't "improve the quality",but if you make flickering picture stable,or you make rolling video not rolling then you may call this improvement..in image stability....(hehe) (actuall video signal is the same....ok,not exactly the same probably quality will suffer from one extra a/d conversion and subsequent d/a one that tbc does..only it is fitted with new sync signals so that you have normal image) if image distors,tbc should help...it's made for that purpose.... but probbaly wont help id teh signal is "Out of reach".... you try and tell me.......

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fasttimes What-- Me Worry? Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 111	http://www.avtoolbox.com/avt-8710.htm has a very good, and cheap ($180) TBC. Works like a champ, and makes capping analog tape much easier. Worth the money!