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'Warriors of the Wind' VHS captured via a Panasonic NV-200 (tbc-off). A very unstable image.

Snell and Wilcox TBS-185 Review Update

I received an email from a reader a month or two back saying they were having trouble with the time-base correction (TBC) functionality on the Snell and Wilcox TBS-185. Thinking back to my review, I actually always tested with Laserdiscs, and generally played through players with integrated digital TBCs. I didn’t think much of this at the time – after all a TBC should, you know, correct timebase errors.

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