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Topic: I Hate JVC Products!
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Evans A Criswell
Phenomenal Film Handler
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Posts: 1579
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 06-21-2005 03:22 PM
I bought a JVC HR-SC1000U SVHS VCR in 1990 and it's always been a rock-solid machine. However, what I thought was great picture quality back then doesn't look as good now because with DVDs, we're accustomed to looking at pictures without timebase errors and with much greater chrominance bandwidth. The problem with SVHS (and VHS, and U-matic, and all those related formats) is the color-under process which reduces the bandwidth of the color portion of the signal. It doesn't matter how high you crank up the chrominance bandwidth -- if you use the same cruddy color bandwidth, and have timebase error on playback, there will be a point where the improvement in luminance bandwidth will not be apparent.
Also, in transferring material from SVHS, VHS, or LD to DVD, the timebase error doesn't go well with the digital compression method, creating extra compression artifacts in the DVD produced.
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Don Bruechert
Mmmmmmmmm, bird!
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Posts: 340
From: Manitowoc, WI, USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 07-02-2005 01:55 PM
I have a JVC SVHS VCR that never has caused me any problems (I think it's an SV-3500 or something but am too lazy to check). I will admit that my primary reason for buying it was that I wanted to run my video system at the time all S-Video from the sat receiver through the VCR to the monitor, so I never really was worried about recording S-V. I have recorded a few S-V things over the years that I wanted to keep, and a bunch of regular stuff and have always been happy with the picture and performance.
On the other hand, when I bought my first DVD player, right before Christmas one year I wanted something that was going to be high quality - none of that $179 crap for me. I jought a JVC player for $349 (which promptly became a $279 player right after price protection expired after Xmas) and the thing always was a piece of shit. Stuttering, dropouts, some discs wouldn't play, sometimes the menus would freeze up, etc. The straw that broke the camel's back was when I bought a $79 one for my Sister for Xmas on year and that would play back MP3s and JPGs and all kinds of other stuff - I couldn't even put "burned" disks in mine. Well since I entered the higher end video world and upgraded my home theater with a screen and (digial) projector I have since bought a scaling DVD player and threw the JVC on the shelf. I find great humor in the fact that I had recently donated it to the Civic Centre I live in to use for a continuously running window display. It lasted 2 weeks and was toast, and din't like the DVD in the first place because it was a burned original. So I went to Wally World and bought a little Maggotbox for $36 that's about the size of a large format paperback book. The damn thing's been running non-stop, 24/7 for 4 months without a glitch, and it even has continuous play on it... There's one for the apparent quality of high priced products!
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