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I'd like to vouch for what LS said about the JVC LSI units. Easily my most impressive example was an old "Circus of the Stars" tape I converted, taped off our local CBS affiliate in 1988.
For whatever reason, the CBS analog signal ALWAYS looked like crap here, with lines and streaking, grain and weird ghosting effects (seemed to be picking up noise from another channel), plus the tape had terrible chroma problems. I popped it in my JVC VCR and even with the TBC and NR on, it looked pretty ugly on my output monitor, so I wasn't expecting much. However, when I played the DVD back, it had made it look 1000x better, eliminating the chroma issues entirely and minimizing the appearances of the lines and ghosting. It basically went from unwatchable to decent, which I'm sure is not always going to be the case, but for this particular tape and the circumstances it was testament to the amazing ability of the LSI chipsets.
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