Firmware flash JVC DR-MH30S, replace drive?

[Larsenv]

Dear lordsmurf,

Would you happen to know how to flash a JVC DR-MH30S NTSC device? I have a friend who owned one, and if I recall correctly (it was a while back when we tried), the image on your other post here https://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vcr...viser-pro.html did not fix it. Also, I believe the Maxtor drive it camr with is dead, so you can't reflash it.

Thanks in advance.

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[lordsmurf]

Welcome.

I'm not readily aware of a method to flash, nor repair HDD, for the JVC DR-MH30.

But you have to remember I was using these 20 years ago (when new, 2005), and slowly backed away from then across the 2010s. In the 2020s, my units are off 99% of the time. Don't get me wrong -- they're excellent! But the need to make DVDs has collapsed. In fact, if I used it for DVDs, I'd just turned around and rip, then edit! The only saving grace is XP mode, for tapes that need "quick convert to DVD", as it does have chroma NR in the LSI. So it will give the best results in this now-uncommon scenario. Although, I must add, that a DVD recorder is far preferable to the junk Easycap/Elgato/HDMI-dongle methods used by too many.

[Larsenv]

This is actually for my friend who owns one. The Maxtor drives which it uses suck and might be prone to die at any point.

He wasn't using it for digitizing specifically.

I do want to know what you think of this test capture though

http://transfer.archivete.am/m3xWE/%60.mp4

[aramkolt]

Capture looks ok, just hard to really comment much in a vacuum without a direct comparison or knowing much about the source. Kind of almost seems like similar colors are getting rounded to the same values and there's a fair amount of artifacting which could be a side effect of noise reduction or compression as the bitrate isn't a super high. What was the actual capture chain and process to make the file overall and what was the source?