You know what, there are a lot of people who still buy these. Alot of people like my folks who started collecting VHS tapes back inteh 80's and have hundreds of them but never really got to heavy into the whole DVD thing. And actually my older (non tech savy) brother was telling me he was going to get a VHS/DVD combo the other day. And I was telling him he should get a DVD player that plays Divx.
Doesn't look like JVC did much wrong here. I'd prefer it in black but that's me. Aside from that, VHS+DVD uprezzing, Divx playback, MP3, DVD recording, firewire jack. At $150 it would sell pretty good I'd think. But at $270, forget it.
Yes...sure you can upscale super-8. I'm presuming you mean digitally. You'd want to scan it to video and then process it. The grain of a super 8 film is going to be problematic, but if the film is high enough quality you could get decent results. You'd probably want to use some sort of software designed for film restoration. Depending on the type of content, you might be able to build a higher quality image by combining information from adjacent frames. It usually needs to be done manually one frame at a time.... and I'm completely off topic now
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Michael @ Sep 22nd 2006 6:48AM
You know what, there are a lot of people who still buy these. Alot of people like my folks who started collecting VHS tapes back inteh 80's and have hundreds of them but never really got to heavy into the whole DVD thing. And actually my older (non tech savy) brother was telling me he was going to get a VHS/DVD combo the other day. And I was telling him he should get a DVD player that plays Divx.
Doesn't look like JVC did much wrong here. I'd prefer it in black but that's me. Aside from that, VHS+DVD uprezzing, Divx playback, MP3, DVD recording, firewire jack. At $150 it would sell pretty good I'd think. But at $270, forget it.
Steve Packard @ Sep 22nd 2006 12:23PM
Yes...sure you can upscale super-8. I'm presuming you mean digitally. You'd want to scan it to video and then process it. The grain of a super 8 film is going to be problematic, but if the film is high enough quality you could get decent results. You'd probably want to use some sort of software designed for film restoration. Depending on the type of content, you might be able to build a higher quality image by combining information from adjacent frames. It usually needs to be done manually one frame at a time.... and I'm completely off topic now