Timeline for What do I need to know about buying a VCR for digitising old VHS tapes?
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| Dec 18, 2020 at 0:22 | comment | added | supercat | @Exasperation: Don't underestimate the importance of that last point. Older high-end VCRs (and DVD players too, incidentally) are often better than anything that was on the market near the end of those formats' market lives. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 22:44 | comment | added | Hashim Aziz | And presumably playing also includes recording/capturing? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 22:43 | vote | accept | Hashim Aziz | ||
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:36 | comment | added | Exasperation | @Prometheus Sorry, deck is old jargon for a tape recorder. Yes, I mean that there's no inherent quality advantage of playing a plain VHS tape on a S-VHS unit. An S-VHS machine is just more likely to be designed & manufactured to a higher standard compared to the bottom end of VHS machines. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:30 | comment | added | Hashim Aziz | Where you said "But a good quality S-VHS and VHS deck should play a VHS tape back equivalently well", did you mean VHS instead of S-VHS, or did you mean what you said? And is a VHS deck a separate piece of equipment? I always thought it was synonymous with a VCR unit. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:27 | vote | accept | Hashim Aziz | ||
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:16 | comment | added | Exasperation | @Prometheus Edited. Hopfully it answers your question, see the paragraph starting "This would only really be necessary if the original footage was recorded as S-VHS." | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 21:14 | history | edited | Exasperation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Hashim Aziz | Thank you for addressing all of my points individually. To clarify the last point, are you saying that for VHS tapes there'll be no gain from buying an S-VHS? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:11 | history | migrated | from retrocomputing.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Dec 17, 2020 at 18:10 | comment | added | RETRAC | Of course, go ahead. | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 16:22 | comment | added | wizzwizz4 | Are you okay to have this migrated to Video Production? | |
| Dec 17, 2020 at 1:07 | history | answered | RETRAC | CC BY-SA 4.0 |