Improving video to panny e55?

Hope someone can advice.

Just set up my panny e55 and I am well chuffed with it. Because I have addiotional equipment like home theatre and video sender I have had to connect my video through video/audio cables and although the picture is decent I would like to try and improve it so that I can start putting some old movies on disc.

Any suggestions.

My set up is TVAV1 to Panny AV1. Panny AV2 to SKY. Video to panny through audio/video cable. TVAV2 to SKY AV2. Video sender to Panny through Video/Audio cables. Home surround to TV through SVideo lead.

Panny is set to RGB with AV2 as normal.

Ta

 

The connections to Sky and TV sound OK.

I don't think there's anything you can do with the VCR connections unless the VHS machine has an S-Video output which could go to AV3 or AV4 of the E55.

 

Thanks Unfortunately no s video on the video recorder.

 

In any case I think you'll find that copies of VHS tapes will look just as good on DVD as the tapes did, provided you stick to a maximum of around 2 hours per disk.

In some cases they will look better because the timebase correction in the E55 makes the pictures more stable.

 

buying an S-VHS deck with TBC (time base correction ) eg JVC can help improve archive quality they are cheap enough these days http://ws2.pricerunner.hughesdirect.co.uk/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=JVC-HRS5975EKS £74.99 + del

 

I've just bought an E55 and have been archiving my VHS and S-VHS videos from my JVC S-VHS recorder onto DVD-R discs. I'm using the JVCs S-Video out into the E55s AV4 and I've found the 2-hour setting works very well - virtually no difference on the DVD-R copies. And yes, the JVC does improve the playback of the VHS tapes too.