[SOLD] For sale: Original green AVT-8710 TBC
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Attachment 12940 I bought an original green AVT-8710 TBC from lordsmurf in april last year to help digitize my VHS tapes. This process if now complete. Since there is only a limited amount of these devices still out there I think it is time that this unit finds a new home. Note: This late production unit has a quirk where it hates JVC menus. Hence the "AG1980 only" sticker. Price is $1540 and I am willing to send all over the world. |
Hates the menus such as the menu freezes ?
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Some freezing, sort of, but not entirely.
It was an odd latter production green TBC, one I'd not seen before, nor since. It's not a black AVT-8710, it doesn't have the same ghosting or frame sticking issue. It's similar to the flawed BVTBC, but nowhere near as bad (as BV has issues at stop/start and pause, not just JVC menus). At first, I thought some shyster had put a black AVT-8710 in a green case, but that wasn't it. The JVC menus are simply unstable. That's because JVC menus are not 100% compliant NTSC or PAL. While that usually means the TBC will be unstable elsewhere, that just wasn't the case here. I ran long burn-in tests on this unit, expecting to see a flaw somewhere, but did not. I tried to make it choke and gag on VHS footage, like a black AVT-8710 does, but it chugged along like a green unit. It was flawless on my then-working AG-1980, and likely other Panasonics. |
Thank you for the answer, lordsmurf.
For my part, I can say that the TBC worked fine while capturing some thirty VHS tapes with my Blaupunkt RTV 966 VCR (rebranded Panasonic NV-HS 1000) and AJA Kona LSe card. |
New price is: $1190
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Is this still usable with a JVC VCR, just without menus? Would bypassing it when accessing menus make sense, or am I going to be in the menus so much that it would be a pain? I am considering this for an analog to digital consumer conversion workflow.
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I'll PM him and ask him to share his experience. |
The JVC menu/background creates a "lag" on the video signal, so any start/stop of the deck into this unit will have bad signal output for up to a minute while it resyncs to the video. You further run risk of in-video issues wherever the JVC background re-shows itself. Some JVCs can have background disable (blue screen = OFF), so it would avoid in-video issues.
There's a reason that I labeled it "AG-1980 only" (but other Panasonics should be fine). |
New price is: $1090
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