Good evening y'all,
If anyone can help me out with a quick question regarding the use of an internal TBC, it'd be much appreciated.
After hours of reading LordSmurf's posts from all over the place, I've began (slowly) collecting the equipment necessary to capture my family's 350+ VHS-Cs, and have only one piece left, the tape deck.
I didn't go with a full TBC like an 8710 or TBC-1000 just because the tapes are already fairly degraded, and I got a sore **** deal on the DVK.
Currently, I've got:
[Nothing] ->
NIB DMR-ES15 ->
Good, tested DataVideo DVK-200 ->
LNIB ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 128MB [Asus K8S-LA, AMD Athlon 64 3400+, 2GB DDR-400, Turtle Beach Santa Cruz]
My main problem seems to be differing (or at least unclear) opinions as to whether not to use the internal TBC with the ES10/15+DVK. To my understanding, the frame TBC in the DVK is weak, and isn't particularly fond of VHS outputs so you've gotta use the ES10 to clean it up a tad. Makes sense to me.
The conflicting opinions begin here:
The DVK is a (weak) frame TBC, and frame TBCs should be used downstream from internal/line TBCs.
but
The ES10 conflicts with internal TBCs and should be turned off when it's being used.
This same question was submitted in this post
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...dvk-200-a.html
but appears to never have quite been answered.
My assumption is no, you can save a little bit of money and get yourself a good Non-TBC deck like an AG-1960 or SR-S365U (or not, can't get a clear opinion on which JVCs eat VHS-Cs, but if nothing else I can always just swap thrift store clamshells) and get good enough results, which is what we're going for. Half of these things are moldy, a quarter reused a few times, although the last quarter are actually in pretty good shape. You're not gonna get a clean read off of them anyways, getting anything off of them at all will make me happy.
Like I said any helps greatly appreciated, the decks all I'm waiting for to get this all going.
Unless I'm missing something else too. Either way, y'all stay safe and Merry Christmas.