MiniDv Deck for Capture/Dubbing

[Rick Steele]

Like many have already said, I use an old canon single chipper. It's got some pixel burnout and is otherwise pretty much useless.

I actually can't recall the last time I ever used the playback functions of my VX. It records and nothing else.

[Dan Minor]

I use the JVC deck every week and love it. It has plenty on Inputs and outputs and will function a long time for you. I am producing my 67th 30 minute talk show on it and do countless weddings and have had zero problems.

Dan

[Chris Sigmon]

Originally Posted by Dan Minor

I use the JVC deck every week and love it. It has plenty on Inputs and outputs and will function a long time for you. I am producing my 67th 30 minute talk show on it and do countless weddings and have had zero problems.

Dan

Is this the model of JVC Deck that I had in my original post?

[Patrick Moreau]

Originally Posted by Edward Troxel

There will be ZERO quality difference as the information is all digital. The cheapest cam will allow capturing the same image as the most expensive deck.

Is this an overstatement? I had some capture problems when shooting with a 3-chip camera a while back and capturing with a cheap sony deck. Capture problems persisted even when trying to capture with a vx2100 or pd170. From what I'm reading here, a minidv deck is more robust against these capture errors, which would have therefore been a higher quality import as the one I have has many breaks and errors. I realize this isn't exactly what was asked, but I have been curious about this myself as I have never used a deck to import.

[Edward Troxel]

Generally speaking, when you get capture errors when capturing from a different camera from which the tape was recorded, it's due to head alignment differences. Decks are slightly more resistent to that but the same situation can occur.