Hm, I haven't noticed the JVC SVHS TBC/DNR causing "blobbing" or whatever (the JVC camcorder TBC/DNR is another story..), though (at least on the PAL variant) it can cause some chroma after-image on scene changes as documented by several people, how much depends on picture mode and whether TBC/DNR is on.
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Originally Posted by Darkmatter
Now, I'm probably asking for a golden egg here, so feel free to laugh at me, but do any of them also have TBC (if it's full, and not line) enabled pass-through? I ask in case I can pay more for an 8mm/Hi8 recorder, and maybe less for an S-VCR.
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The line TBC on some (or all?) the Digital8 ones is active if you use them to go from the analog input to firewire, though that also means the video will be DV-compressed. On ones that are not Digital8 there is no way to even pass the video through since there is only one analog in/out. The E60 is may be able to do the job fine as frame-TBC-alternative though unless you are dealing with commercial tapes that have macrovision/copy protection on them.
Hi8 camcorders play back standard video8 as well. Many, but not all, digital8 camcorders can play back hi8 and video tapes, the cheapest variants were digital8 only. Some standard Video8 camcorders featured hi8 playback (at reduced quality I think similar to SVHS Quasi Playback on VHS decks).
Unlike later models, the NTSC versions of the E60 and other panasonic DVRs from before the ES10 and other 2006 models actually have
adjustable brightness/contrast/gamma. (I wish all of them had this...) Noise reduction settings are in the same place. I haven't used one so I have no idea whether all settings there apply to analog input or not. The whole interface and hardware setup differs a bit from the later models.