JVC HM-DH40000U D-VHS VCR Help!

[NJRoadfan]

There were some very old ATSC tuners that had firewire out. The Samsung SIR-T165 and the Panasonic TU-DST51A are two of the most popular. Both use ancient ATSC tuners that require a really strong/clear signal to get anything unlike today's much improved units. For playback from my JVC SR-VD400U (Pro version of the HM-DH40k), I simply use firewire to my computer and VLC to play them back. You can also dump your DVHS tapes to MPEG-2 PS files on your computer using a program like CapDVHS if they are not copy protected. Windows has drivers for the VCR built in.

Honestly for recording over-the-air TV its now affordable to ditch the tape and go with a PC based tuner and capture software that directly records the ATSC MPEG2 program stream. The only reason why I have a DVHS machine is for its superior analog tape playback capabilities and the fact that I can use it as a passthru time-base corrector.