What is Time Base Corrector (TBC) and do you need it?
John J. Godfrey, Emmy award-winning editor, who held a position of a supervising engineer at WNET/13 in New York, said in a 1983 interview, "The biggest advancement [in broadcast TV] came with the digital time-base corrector. … As a friend of mine put it, with it you "could take unstable poor-quality ½-inch videotape and turn it into stable poor-quality ½-inch videotape.""
This video is a quick primer on digital time base corrector (TBC), why it has been instrumental in the adoption of helical video tape recorders for professional use, and why it is essential when converting analog video recordings like Umatic, VHS, Video8 or Hi8 into digital form.
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00:00 Intro
01:50 Tech Background
04:55 H-Sync vs. V-Sync
05:53 Dazzle DVC100 vs. AverMedia CE310B
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See also:
■ Review of the Mitsibishi HS-MD3000 SVHS VCR with built-in TBC | • Mitsubishi HS-MD3000 - a VHS VCR with...
■ Review of Diamond VC500 analog-to-digital converter | • Digitize VHS and Hi8 video with the D...
■ Pinnacle Dazzle family of analog-to-digital converters | • Which Pinnacle Dazzle?
■ How to digitize VHS, DV and Hi8 video and convert it for YouTube | • How to digitize VHS and convert inter...
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