Originally Posted by hodgey (Post 71946)

It will still be secam. A system converter may prevent the TBC from doing anything meaningful and leave handling of the unstable video signal to whatever does the conversion depending on how it's made.

You would need something that can handle SECAM to replace it. Ideally another TBC, or maybe you could get away with a DVD-recorder or AV receiver in place of it or maybe some other capture device that can handle video/audio sync well as notet.