I was just given a 1996 VHS copy from NBC of a "Meet the Press" edition from my ballpark that aired on the Sunday before the 1996 All-Star Game to make some copies. I threw it in to the JVC with the TBC and it played like new. It had never been played before. Long live VHS!

I was the house engineer at the ballpark at the time and arrived at 3am to welcome NBC in to the house. It was a fun day doing a national broadcast and it is fun to have a perfect copy of the day and see all of my Phillies execs on camera in the day 17 years later. They will get copies and I will try to grab a frame to show.

Pic added. Not Blu-ray but not bad for the day. Long live JVC TBC/DNR decks! This is a full-frame grab from the DVD copy VOB file playing via VLC Media player. The mechanical errors (flagging) are fixed by the TBC. The color is smoothed by the DNR. Another website mentions a 2mb buffer. Not sure where the usual head switch noise at the bottom went. TBC may fix or enlarge the frame. VLC may do the same. Blanking issues on the sides remain. May do an un-TBCed version as a test.

What model JVC did you play it on?

JVC SR-V10U. SVHS deck. The CTC-100 of VHS.

A very good picture for home videotape. It shows how much the digital correction can enhance the signal, and how well you did your job, Dave!

Should be a SR-V10U, the last of its kind. That Digipure circuit does a pretty good job of cleaning up the typical VHS chroma noise.

NJ...you are correct and very insightful. Typo fixed.