[mythtv-users] Cheap SCSI scanners - was:The Bigger... Disk contest, Fall 2007 edition

[David Brodbeck]

On Oct 22, 2007, at 10:42 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> but I learned, 20 years ago, when I saw it on a 19" Sony engineering
> monitor, that you can get broadcast quality results out of VHS, if you
> feed it a good enough signal.  (Someone in my TV production class at
> votech had a Panasonic WV-555 or -777 feeding an NV-8450 portable; I'd
> air it...)

Yeah, and if you don't have to go down too many generations.

3/4" Umatic looks much better than VHS after a generation or two, in  
my experience.  SVHS and Umatic are pretty close, though.  And those  
3/4" decks are nasty fire-breathing beasts.