Pioneer DVD recorder for VHS transfer?

[daddypud]

I want to convert many old vhs to dvd I have a Panasonic 1980 vcr which I have kept up and had serviced but looking for a good dvd recorder and remember in the old days the pioneer elite stuff was built like a tank and high quality and wonder how good were the pioneer dvr-7000 and Pvr-9000 for vhs transfer
always like pioneer stuff but could not find much info referencing pioneer stand alone dvd recorders but many talk about how good some of there computer burners were, appreciate any help
thanks

[lordsmurf]

The 1980 is a good VCR.
RE: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...ing-guide.html

Pioneer recorders are variable. Some were okay, some not.
Some had IRE/contrast issues.
None removed chroma noise.
Some looked terrible beyond 2-hour SP mode (ie, forced 720x480 for low bitrates).
Some used quality Renesas encoding chipsets, some did not.

At this late date, I forget off-hand which is which. However, read my past posts on this forum.

Pioneer burners and recorders have nothing in common. In fact, some Pioneer recorders didn't even use Pioneer burners inside.

[JoRodd]

I have the Pioneer DVR 560H. How can I tell what chipset this has?

[lordsmurf]

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Originally Posted by JoRodd

I have the Pioneer DVR 560H. How can I tell what chipset this has?

Opening it is the obvious way, and looking for the "CPU" (main chip).

If it has some sort of heat dissipation, it'll need to be removed, the chip cleaned with 90% alcohol, read, and then re-seated. Yeah, big pain, but I've done it often.

The 560 is a 2006/07 model, right? I think so.

I wrote this on VH about 10 years ago:

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Pioneer
Issue: Picture drop-out from VHS sources.
How common is it? You will hear about it, but not many people ever see it. The PAL units seem to garner far more complaints that the NTSC ones. It does not seem to be an issue in the newest Pioneer units that started to surface in summer 2005.
Can it be fixed? Unknown. While it seems plausible that a firmware fix could correct it, that has yet to happen.
Will it break again? N/A.

and

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Renesas and NEC both have chipsets in Pioneer models. From an educated guess, I think the HDD models are NEC, while the non-HDD are Renesas.

CitiBear (knows his stuff) wrote a few things at AVS, but still nothing concrete.

Those 2005 machines had many flaws. I think the chipsets were the same for encoding, but much of the latter machines were different.

It's always been hard to find out who uses what. Some is purposely hidden from consumers (rebadgeing especially), while others only have info in Japanese trade pubs.

[vidz_man01]

I have the Pioneer DVR-210s ---model before the Wal-Mart/Best Buy DVR-220/225. This machine does a better job of VHS to DVD than the 220/225. Maybe due to the fact that the 210/310s models used Renesas chip for encoding. Quality is good in both preset SP (2 Hr) and LP (4 hr) modes.