vhs video stabilizer

[legolas]

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Hello everybody! Some electronic shops sell a "video stabilizer" that is an
hardware to remove the macrovision copy protection. I am not interested in
this, but i ask myself it this is useful to really stabilize the signal, for
example with old-damaged vhs, like a TBC. I have a radeon vivo and when i
acquire i lost some frame because they are bad. Anyone has this device? What
about its stabilizing features with normal (not protected) vhs ?

 

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"Legolas" wrote ...
> Hello everybody! Some electronic shops sell a "video
> stabilizer" that is an hardware to remove the macrovision
> copy protection. I am not interested in this, but i ask myself
> it this is useful to really stabilize the signal, for example
> with old-damaged vhs, like a TBC. I have a radeon vivo and
> when i acquire i lost some frame because they are bad. Anyone
> has this device? What about its stabilizing features with normal
> (not protected) vhs ?

The inexpensive ones (<$200) are likely just replacing the
sync and not actually performing any timebase correction.

True timebase correctors (TBC) are rarely found in consumer
channels. Frequently available on eBay, however. I just did a
search on eBay for "TBC" and found 73 items, mostly "real"
timebase correctors, not just sync-regenerators.

 

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> example with old-damaged vhs, like a TBC. I have a radeon vivo and when i
> acquire i lost some frame because they are bad. Anyone has this device? What
> about its stabilizing features with normal (not protected) vhs ?

They'll work to a degree. The ones in the VHS deck (eg. JVC top end
models for $300-500 with TBC -- pretty much the only consumer level
models around with TBC in them nowadays) will work better since they get
the raw signal off the tape heads to work with, but try and see --
depends on how bad your tapes are in the first place.