11-16-2020, 11:18 AM
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I recently bought a clone ATI 600 capture device with the intent of using it along with my tv-ONE TBC to preserve my rare vhs tapes.
I tested it out on some tapes I had recorded from the early 2000s and they captured the picture just fine, even if the cropping was a bit off.
However the moment I tried to capture a specific tape from the 80s, the picture would only display in black and white and nothing I did could fix it.
Can someone please tell me what I must do to fix it?
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11-16-2020, 02:46 PM
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So it's just the one tape?
Are you sure it's not B&W?
Are you sure you didn't accidentally change any settings on the TBC?
Is the tape PAL or NTSC, or something else?
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12-18-2020, 11:13 AM
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Sorry for the exorbitantly long wait. I haven't had time to experiment with my conversion setup in the lead up to Christmas. But so far I think I've established that the colour problem is not with the drive itself, but with the S video cables. They're not connecting properly for some reason and I have to mangle and bend them in awkward ways just to get the picture to display in colour for only a few seconds. Does anyone know of any S video connections that won't have this problem?
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12-18-2020, 10:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MasterBattalion8
Sorry for the exorbitantly long wait. I haven't had time to experiment with my conversion setup in the lead up to Christmas. But so far I think I've established that the colour problem is not with the drive itself, but with the S video cables. They're not connecting properly for some reason and I have to mangle and bend them in awkward ways just to get the picture to display in colour for only a few seconds. Does anyone know of any S video connections that won't have this problem?
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Off course, very common problem with S-Video connectors, Replace the cable if the problem exists you will have to open up the VCR and re-solder the S-Video socket legs on the PCB board, I've done a lot of them, some are easy, some are a pain, depends on the VCR model.
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12-18-2020, 11:43 PM
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Ah, yes, very common. I've done this myself once or twice over the year. The reason it happens is overly using the s-video connection. Push, pull, push, pull. This is why I use s-video extenders now, rarely have to touch the actual VCR in/outs. B&W is a symptom of it being only slightly bad, whereas more often the signal is entirely messed up.
It's usually the connections, not the s-video cable. But the cable is possible.
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