Nostalgic indeed
'Videomaker' had a review on the TBC-2000 way back in June 1998.
Datavideo TBC-2000 Time Base Corrector
Quote:
There are two main purposes for owning a TBC: to synchronize two (or more) separate moving sources of video, and to clean up minute timing errors that occur during the duplication process. In the latter category, the TBC-2000 does not perform well enough to merit recommendation. The chief drawback of the TBC-2000 is the poor quality of the digitized image. Because it actually makes a digital copy of one full frame of video at a time, the quality of any TBC’s output corresponds directly to the quality of the still frames it captures. The quality of the still images on the TBC-2000 are noisy and grainy at best, and sometimes will have a tendency to break down into a jittery mess. The TBC-2000 provides brightness, contrast and color controls.
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The only photos I could find on the web display the simple controls.
The TBC-100 and TBC-1000 had to be redesigned since they were single channel. The TBC-3000 also had to be redesigned because its proc amp controls were (digital not analog) so were revised. So comparing them to the TBC-2000 would probably not be accurate.
The TBC-2000 looks like it was meant to be partnered with the SE-200 for mechanical linear editing popular for that day. The later TBC-100 was advertised as designed to be convenient for partnering with video capture cards inside a PC to stabilize inherently unstable 'camcorder' video emerging on the market around year 2000. (This was before DV video and Firewire became popular for camcorder capture.) Then the TBC-100 card was put into the Video distribution cabinet to produce the TBC-1000. Then the TBC-3000 replaced the TBC-2000 with even more controls over each input channel. Both the TBC-100 and TBC-1000 were essentially the same PC card design with and without a cabinet and included NTSC or PAL-B autotect.
[My] opinion would be while this had its purpose back in 1998. It would be a poor substitute for a TBC-1000 or TBC-3000 today. And since TBC-100, 1000 or 3000 are hard to find, a DVD recorder pass-thru would not only be better suited, but probably preferable.
I have never seen a TBC-2000 compared to the TBC-100, 1000 or 3000 but the TBC-2000 was only on the market a couple years and quickly replaced with an updated model.