Posted by Stan Brown on 04/28/06 02:48

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:08:22 -0700 from <normanstrong@comcast.net>:
> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1eb9fa0d871cdc2498a44a@news.individual.net...
> > Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:26:43 GMT from JMC <jmc@columbus.rr.com>:
> >> Will I get any kind of quality going from a VHS recorder to a stand alone
> >> DVD recorder using the in out ports,
> >
> > In my experience the quality is better with the DVD recorder.
>
> I've never found it possible to improve the quality of a video recording.
> The best I can hope for is an imperceptible degradation. You can, of
> course, alter the color balance, brightness and contrast, but I don't count
> that as improving the quality, since you could have done the same thing to
> the original.

Perhaps I misinterpreted the OP's question By "going from a VHS
recorder to a DVD record" I thought the OP meant _replacing_ VHS with
DVD as a recording method.

If the OP meant _transferring_ material from VHS to DVD thorough
patch cords or other techniques, then I agree 100% you're right. The
Second Law of Thermodynamics says that the second-generation
recording cannot be better than the first-generation.

But with appropriate processing it might _look_ better. Video
enhancement and such like don't actually add information, but the
resulting picture can look better because of how our eyes and brains
process images. This is beyond my area of expertise, however.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
DVD FAQ: http://dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html
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