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Before I go through the trouble of ripping out all the VCR's in my house, I was just wondering if anyone here has had any direct experience with how the VCR signal holds up with VCR's connected in serial.
I generally have to supply about 20 tapes for the projects I regularly do for local school districts. It would be nice to have 3 or 4 machines connected.
I know that in general serial connections are bad but:
- my first deck is a JVC S-VHS 7900 that actually "cleans up" the input signal quite well. The next VCR down the line actually tapes better with it's signal coming from this unit then straight from the camera.
- since I'm taping to regular VHS format (approx 230 lines), my original input signal is of higher quality than the destination so I figure I can stand to lose some signal and not significantly degrade the VHS tape.
Right now I'm running S-Video into the JVC S-VHS deck and then composite into a decent Panasonic. I'm thinking of adding a third deck (maybe fourth) to the chain and was wondering what the more experienced members can offer in the way of advice.
I generally have to supply about 20 tapes for the projects I regularly do for local school districts. It would be nice to have 3 or 4 machines connected.
I know that in general serial connections are bad but:
- my first deck is a JVC S-VHS 7900 that actually "cleans up" the input signal quite well. The next VCR down the line actually tapes better with it's signal coming from this unit then straight from the camera.
- since I'm taping to regular VHS format (approx 230 lines), my original input signal is of higher quality than the destination so I figure I can stand to lose some signal and not significantly degrade the VHS tape.
Right now I'm running S-Video into the JVC S-VHS deck and then composite into a decent Panasonic. I'm thinking of adding a third deck (maybe fourth) to the chain and was wondering what the more experienced members can offer in the way of advice.