On Tue, January 16, 2007 6:59 am, Ralph Shumaker wrote: > Lan Barnes wrote: >> The only place I'm noticing any degradation of signal is in the VCR >> playback. It's going through 3 cables (6 RCA plugs) and it's a little >> fuzzier than I would have expected. Because of this, when I am archiving >> my family VCR tapes, I may hand patch it directly into the myth box >> through one cable. But I'm not going to be playing a lot of video tapes >> (I >> won't have to any more), so I'm not giving much up day to day. > > That is probably the one place where you would *most* want to reduce the > degradation of signal. Your digital copies, no matter what, will be > somewhat degraded from the VHS originals. Reduce that as much as > possible before you flush the VHS or before the analog itself (on the > VHS) becomes degraded. (Unless "good enough is good enough".) ;-) >
I fully agree. Once I have the recording on myth working, I need to make this a priority project. Direct wire it for whatever time it takes (S-Vid for the video if the tape player has that output). VHS seemed so *magic* when it came out, and now I can just see its pimples. As an addendum on the above observation, you must realize that I bought the cheapest RCA cables, not the gold tipped ones. And as every CB knows, sometimes you don't get what you don't pay for. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
