Do you have the Toshiba that will record Super VHS on standard tapes?? A friend has the high end model ($600??) and swears by it. I have a couple old Panasonic machines from the mid-late 80s. Better quality than most stuff made today. One weighs a ton and has studio quality heads. (Sold for $1000 new in 1985 dollars). It must have been a studio machine modified for comsumers. Has manual overrides for all the recording functions (level, etc.) Has edit functions also. Flying erace head. A friend read somewhere it can defeat the copy guard encoding. We tested it and it works. The second one has very similar edit functions, but not quite the same build quality, still nice picture.
VCR (remember these?) w/ a great picture
I know that DVD's are vastly superior, but I have a number of older films on VCR that I haven't found on DVD. In light of this, I am looking for a VCR that has a great picture with older tapes. I thought both Toshiba and JVC had devices on their machines that made older tapes look pretty darn good. Recommendations ? Thank you kindly !