sda capture blog

the difference in quality is just night and day, or whatever other clichéd analogy you'd like to use. processing runs (the actual work i do, anyway) is reduced by maybe 90%, not having to babysit everything while the analog capture takes place, and the benefits don't end there - think about how much easier it is for the encoder to handle video without the excessive amounts of noise apparently introduced only by vhs. the audio is cleaner (no denoising required in most cases), the brightness and contrast are always correct in the case of ntsc (black is black and white is white) and vhs hell who?

on account of dvd being proven so clearly superior to vhs, i have decided to phase out vhs capture starting on 1 june, when i'm finished moving into my new apartment. vhs capture services for sda through metroid 2002 will continue for one year from that date, but as of 1 june 2007, you will need to buy a dvd recorder to submit runs to sda. by that time, though, recorders should cost well under 100 dollars or euros, so it will not be an undue burden on you to come up with that between now and then. on top of that, i doubt that most retailers (except perhaps walmart) will even be selling vhs anything by that time, so it ought to be pretty easy for you to convince whomever you live with to invest in a dvd recorder.