The AG-1980 / 5710 has a separate on/off switch for the TBC, but the DNR cannot be disabled: it is always in the signal chain regardless of the DETAIL-NOR-EDIT switch. The PAL model has more noticeable visual effects between various settings, and seems to allow independent activation of TBC and DNR. For those who might be confused, LMotlow interpreted that exchange correctly to mean 'what happens when typical VHS color nosie and grain are encoded to lossy codecs without cleanup, and especially to low-bitrate encodes directly to something like MPEG or h264 during capture.'īack to YOUR question: the North American AG-1980 / AG-5710 has significant differences from the similar (but not identical) NV-FS200 PAL version. You quoted my reply to a related question in a different thread: my use of the term 'pixelation' there was in direct response to that member, who used the term in his OP to describe an effect he did not like. Each AG-1980 will exhibit different characteristics at different settings that will strongly interact with your specific tapes and capture device. The AG-1980 was a one-off, goofball VCR with a staggeringly broad range of performance variation from unit to unit (which gets more exaggerated as they age).

No one here can tell you as an absolute 'you must only use this particular setting'. Hypersonic1, you will need to personally test each combination of settings to see what YOU prefer. Apparently refers to what happens when typical VHS color nosie and grain are encoded to lossy codecs without cleanup, and especially to low-bitrate encodes directly to something like MPEG or h264 during capture.which is why few advanced users recommend capturing VHS directly to lossy codecs, even if you have dnr available. did you read the AG1980 owner's manual? The EDIT setting is for recording and tape dubbing. I don't have the AG1980 model and could be wrong, but the EDIT setting disables noise reduction in most VCRs and it's recommended for copying video in the user manuals. You don't really have any alternatives other than to live with it, or use an ordinary VCR with no TBC/DNR at all (you'll get normal motion with no smearing, but will have to accept typical VHS color noise and grain (which translates as pixelation when digitized). The 'smearing' effect is caused mostly by the DNR, but the TBC plays a part which is why you still notice it with the TBC turned off (on the AG1980, you can disable the TBC but not the DNR which is always active). The effect you see is called 'temporal distortion' and it is common among ALL consumer/prosumer VCRs with built-in TBC/DNR. If you're not playing s-vhs tapes, turn it OFF. The DETAIL-NOR-EDIT switch should be on NOR. The switch just below the PICTURE slider should be = NOR. If you see too much noise or halos, lower sharp to the left. Smear can't.ĭefault position for sharpness (PICTURE) is a notch in the mid-scale position. If you get a lousy noisy crap tape and you see the DNR softening or smearing the image, turn the 1980's TBC/DNR off and just use the ES15. It's just possible that you might not need the ES15 anyway. If the AG-1980's TBC is OFF, the ES15 will handle both the line and frame tbc functions. If the 1980's TBC is ON, the ES15's line tbc will have no effect but its frame-sync tbc will be working. Is there any benefit of enabling two line TBCs, one from the AG-1980 and the other from the DMR-ES15? No.

I am planning on passing it through a DMR-ES15 DVD recorder, and capturing it to a Diamond VC500 USB device.

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