S5000E won't play back S-VHS-C tapes?

[Mr.We]

Hi Guys,

I recently bought a JVC HR-S5000E (Pal) VCR, but I haven't had any luck getting it to play my S-VHS-C tapes. I've tested 7 SVHSC tapes and at best I get the occasional half frame flickering on, usually in black and white sporadically flashing colours in and out, before disappearing again. This is using S- video out into Elegato Video Capture unit and software on a mac. The audio output sent through RCA cables plays fine whilst the software says no video input when clearly there is since there's audio.

I don't have any other S-VHS decks to verify that these tapes definitely work, but i've tested a bunch of regular VHS and VHSc tapes in the S5000E that I knew worked alright in another VCR, and these tapes also worked fine in the S5000E, except for one VHS which had the similar playback issues described above despite this tape playing back perfectly in a consumer sony VCR.

Oh and i've tested these SVHSC tapes using a JVC C-P5U SVHS cassette adapter as well as a Maxell VP-CA VHS-c cassette adapter, both with the same results.

The S500E has the 'SVHS' light on indicating that it knows the tape is SVHS.

Any ideas/suggestions? Does this sound like a lemon, should I get my money back or is it perhaps a simple fix?

Any advice would be much appreciated!

[Goldwingfahrer]

Hello
The Consumer Recorder JVC are not ideal for playing S-VHS-C / VHS-C.

Ideal is a Panasonic NV-V8000 [Consumer Model] SP + LP Mode
or one of the large JVC BR-S522 / 622/822 models. [SP Mode ]

I have 2 pcs. NV-V8000 and all 3 JVC BR-S.
Am satisfied.

[Mr.We]

I thought the JVC HR-S5000E was a professional model? It's on the recommended VCR list on this website
and the last owner said it retailed for over $1000 back in the day.

It's funny because it plays VHS-c tapes fine
so I would have thought SVHSC would be no different.

[Goldwingfahrer]

Quote:

I thought the JVC HR-S5000E was a professional model?

JVC HR S5000 was never a "Professional" Recorder.
Only a simple consumer recorder.

The 5000 andd also 5800 I have discarded many years ago.
The elders here of the JVC HR-series is a JVC HR S6800,
see link. http://www.heimers.ch/de/jvc_hr-s6800e.html

try it with another recorder.....For Bsp.Pana NV-HS 1000 / or Pana AG-4700
Why have for various recoder to check which outputs the best picture

[lordsmurf]

It was prosumer, not professional.

It's not really "suggested" as much as it generally is respected by its owner for doing a good job. And picky owners, not Joe Sixpack.

JVC S-VHS (NTSC) without TBC

These are prosumer decks that pre-date the TBC/DNR system. Although these decks are often 
considered inferior in some ways to latter-generation JVC VCRs, the playback is still quite 
excellent. These decks have known-excellent tape transports, which leads to stable playback 
that can, in some circumstances, with some tapes, outperform the later JVC TBC models, 
and provide a comparable EP/SLP performance to Panasonic transports.

    JVC SR-S365U
    JVC HR-S5000U
    JVC HR-S5800U
    JVC HR-S6800U
    JVC HR-S6900U
    JVC HR-S7100U
    JVC HR-S9400U

I've never heard of a JVC S-VHS VCR refusing to play the 'C' tapes, but know that this VCR does (as far as I know) predate the C format. So maybe that has some bearing on this issue.