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It's a shame quality took such a hit with phony image enhancement by capturing to DV, then another hit by re-encoding to a second lossy codec. It makes it difficult to judge whether the problems are due to the lossy codecs, the stablizer (which didn't seem to be stabilizing so well), or the JVC's "Auto" feature. The video looks plastic and over-processed with the typically "cooked" color usually seen with tape to DV. Knowledgeable video enthusiasts would find it annoying to watch, less discriminating viewers will be fooled into thinking that the artificial effects and compression losses look cool. Turn off the stabilizer and don't use anything that says "Auto" when capturing. Turning off the TBC obviously made things more unwatchable with bad shimmer, ripple, and increased noise and jitter throughout the images, something that even the visually challenged should be able to see. Most segments have illegal luma or chroma values for digital video, which is typical for uncontrolled DV capture. Other than the defects purposely inflicted onto the capture, the JVC seems to be working well. I wouldn't try using it with slow 6-hour or 4-hour tapes, but stay with SP retail tapes and the player itself should work well..
Last edited by sanlyn; 11-11-2016 at 04:39 AM.
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