This deck is the only S-VHS deck that I own. In our country there is lack of good decks at all. There are only cheap china videoplayers, good decks are very rare. I had a possibility to bring Panasonic NV-HS1000 from Poland, but my friend who is trucker and can help me with shipping, is not able to bring this vcr soon... It is a good accident that I've bought this JVC deck in Belarus.
I am going to use this deck for digitizing tapes. Now I use restored Sony SLV-757 for good tapes (it gives me sharpest picture, I even able to make teletext captures from VHS tapes and recover almost 90% of teletext data from usual VHS tapes). For bad tapes I use Panasonic HV-FJ630 as it gives less sharper picture, but it recovers jams (replaces dropped lines from memory, JVC S6800 lacks this feature). For TBC (only on bad tapes) I use Digital-8 camera Sony DCR-TRV310 with LANC-to-LPT cable to have possibility to convert from analog to digital. As capture card I use AverMedia M-135A (I'm going to replace it with something which accept component video because of buying two BetacamSP decks). On my
YT channel all the old videos were captured using this setup.
BTW, I've found this deck in list of good non-TBC decks (S6800 is in bold there).
Thanks!
Best regards,
Alexander.