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Originally Posted by sanlyn
The cleanest results can be had using recorders that have LSI chips. Will it look as good as a fully lossless restoration using good components?
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The main benefit of LSI is chroma NR (removes red/blue misty chroma noise that is present on all VHS tapes), along with better VBR bitrate allocation both intra and inter on the GOP.
The minimum goal for tape transfer is to not look worse that the tape did. Most DVD recorders fail at this, making DVDs that are vastly worse than the original source tapes.
The ideal goal is to make a tape look "better" (as good as the original signal actually is, not simply viewed as crappy as a low-end VCR makes it be) when capturing/transferring. Therefore good VCR to full extract the quality signal, and some required TBC processing so the capture can happen. And using a good capture card that also doesn't degrade it from the tape.
I use JVC LSI recorders on hobby content, mostly my own VHS/S-VHS recordings from TV. Quality of the source is good, the newly made DVD is better. sanlyn is correct, a long process would yield better results. But for that source, it's somewhat wasted effort for minimal returns.
Non-TV homemade camcorder tapes almost always need lossless capturing. At very least, non-DVD high bitrate MPEG specs (and preferably 4:2:2 when available).
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Originally Posted by TheCage
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LSI recorders cannot be used as TBC(ish) passthrough. Passthrough is a function that is available on a very few DVD recorders, generally only ES10/15 units (and maybe some HDD models of the same specs; not ES20/25/etc generations).
PAL has an ES10 model, I have one for my PAL workflow -- for anti-tearing, not as TBC(ish).
