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Originally Posted by arjoll
One other thought - in standard VHS VCRs are the Y and C signals ever separate at any stage? Just had a thought about capturing old VHS tapes with better quality...(sorry, drifting off topic)
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The Y and C are always separate on the tape. Hence you can get better quality by using a machine which has an S output.
The thing to remember is that the greatest damage is done by separating Y from C. Repeated combining and separating does even more damage. Modern combing decoders do it a lot better than older designs but it can never be perfect. I'm amazed at the performance of the low cost deoder chip in the newer Aurora standards converter. I know I've only seen the Y output but it's astonishingly good.