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Argus25 · 13th Jan 2017, 1:42 am

Perhaps an optical method is not completely out of the question. Some years ago I experimented with filming the face-plates of 14" TV monitors with a video camera. The video camera was gen-lockable to vertical sync so, there was no vertical rate drift between the source signal and the cameras video out. When the monitor was set up properly for contrast & brightness and the camera adjusted as best possible, the result was surprisingly good. This sort of thing obviously will be nowhere near is as good as an electronic converter or digital capture, but it is a possible way to get some sort of copy of the material into another format. And since the 405 and 625 vertical rate is the same, it is an easier task than trying to go between PAL & NTSC this way.
It is interesting that a lot of "copy DVD's" are made by people filming the movie screen with a digital camera and they expect to pass that off as as reasonable copy !

13th Jan 2017, 1:42 am	#9
Argus25 No Longer a Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia. Posts: 2,679	Re: 405 to 625 Perhaps an optical method is not completely out of the question. Some years ago I experimented with filming the face-plates of 14" TV monitors with a video camera. The video camera was gen-lockable to vertical sync so, there was no vertical rate drift between the source signal and the cameras video out. When the monitor was set up properly for contrast & brightness and the camera adjusted as best possible, the result was surprisingly good. This sort of thing obviously will be nowhere near is as good as an electronic converter or digital capture, but it is a possible way to get some sort of copy of the material into another format. And since the 405 and 625 vertical rate is the same, it is an easier task than trying to go between PAL & NTSC this way. It is interesting that a lot of "copy DVD's" are made by people filming the movie screen with a digital camera and they expect to pass that off as as reasonable copy !