{"id":1442,"date":"2018-07-01T08:02:44","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T08:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2022-09-02T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T08:49:57","slug":"snell-and-wilcox-tbs-185-review-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notonbluray.com\/blog\/snell-and-wilcox-tbs-185-review-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Snell and Wilcox TBS-185 Review Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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The reader was having issues with PAL Laserdiscs and VHS tapes, and wondered if I’d tested with them… well – I hadn’t.<\/p>\n

As it turns out – the ‘C’ (Golden Gate) input of the TBS-185 is sensitive to time base error. The uncorrected feed from a VHS tape is pretty twitchy. Even fed from the basic digital TBC of a Panasonic NV-200 – it’s still twitchy.<\/p>\n

\"'Warriors<\/a>

‘Warriors of the Wind’ VHS captured via a Panasonic NV-200 (tbc-off). A very unstable image.<\/p><\/div>\n

During my earlier review I noted that the DPS-575 it had either a 3D comb-filter, or a TBC + 2D comb filter. That design choice seemed odd at the time, but was presumably the product of either limited RAM or limited processing power. Unfortunately seems like the TBS-185 has the same issue, it just doesn’t advertise it clearly. Very disappointing.<\/p>\n

Buyer beware.<\/p>\n

\"'Warriors<\/a>

‘Warriors of the Wind’ VHS captured via a Panasonic NV-200 (tbc-on). Slightly better – but still some intermittant ‘flagging’ issues.<\/p><\/div>\n

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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. 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