Some high end S-VHS camcorders did very well but the major difference between a VCR and a camcorder is the tape wrap angle, The VCR scans the tape in 180° wrap with two heads, one field per head, While the VHS-C camcorder scans the tape in 270° wrap and uses a small 4 heads drum rotating at higher than normal speed to track down the 2 fields, this is not ideal especially for LP tapes recorded on a different camcorder, SP recordings are more resilient. This is why a full size drum VCR is recommended.
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