I'm spending a couple of weeks visiting relatives and my mother has bought
a Samsung R-120 to convert a load of old art Videos to disk, which she
wants me to do for her.
The problem is the Videos play fine through the R120 (VCR -> R120 -> TV)
but as soon as I try to record, it boosts the brightness rendering the dark
pencil lines on the white paper almost invisible. For most things it looks
OK, just a little bright (possibly a little con trick to give the
impression of improved quality) but for pencil drawings it renders the
output useless.
Essential Touch wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I'm spending a couple of weeks visiting relatives and my mother has bought
> a Samsung R-120 to convert a load of old art Videos to disk, which she
> wants me to do for her.
>
> The problem is the Videos play fine through the R120 (VCR -> R120 -> TV)
> but as soon as I try to record, it boosts the brightness rendering the dark
> pencil lines on the white paper almost invisible. For most things it looks
> OK, just a little bright (possibly a little con trick to give the
> impression of improved quality) but for pencil drawings it renders the
> output useless.
>
> Any ideas how to turn this off or work around it?
>
> -J
I don't own the machine but I just downloaded the pdf version of the
manual
on the pdf, page 44 of 72 is video display settings and on looking at
these it mentions how to get into this setting and being able to
lighten or darken input levels. I am wondering if this is what you
need to be looking at, but if you try it I would do a test recording
or two to make sure it works.
Are these commercially released videos or home recorded videos? If they are
'factory' tapes then they might have Macrovision protection.
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>
> Hi All
>
> I'm spending a couple of weeks visiting relatives and my mother has bought
> a Samsung R-120 to convert a load of old art Videos to disk, which she
> wants me to do for her.
>
> The problem is the Videos play fine through the R120 (VCR -> R120 -> TV)
> but as soon as I try to record, it boosts the brightness rendering the
> dark
> pencil lines on the white paper almost invisible. For most things it looks
> OK, just a little bright (possibly a little con trick to give the
> impression of improved quality) but for pencil drawings it renders the
> output useless.
>
> Any ideas how to turn this off or work around it?
>
> -J
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:11:21 -0400, Vitamin R wrote:
> Are these commercially released videos or home recorded videos? If they are
> 'factory' tapes then they might have Macrovision protection.
They were commercially released, but it was from a small(ish) art group and
I very much doubt they would have had the means or the inclination to use
macrovision.
She would just buy new copies on DVD, but the company no longer exists.
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:55:35 GMT, Paul Heslop wrote:
> don't own the machine but I just downloaded the pdf version of the
> manual
>
> download at - http://tinyurl.com/2aab4p
>
> on the pdf, page 44 of 72 is video display settings and on looking at
> these it mentions how to get into this setting and being able to
> lighten or darken input levels. I am wondering if this is what you
> need to be looking at, but if you try it I would do a test recording
> or two to make sure it works.
Odd, that option is not available on the menu page. It's a UK machine,
perhaps that's why?
Essential Touch wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:55:35 GMT, Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> > don't own the machine but I just downloaded the pdf version of the
> > manual
> >
> > download at - http://tinyurl.com/2aab4p
> >
> > on the pdf, page 44 of 72 is video display settings and on looking at
> > these it mentions how to get into this setting and being able to
> > lighten or darken input levels. I am wondering if this is what you
> > need to be looking at, but if you try it I would do a test recording
> > or two to make sure it works.
>
> Odd, that option is not available on the menu page. It's a UK machine,
> perhaps that's why?
>
> -J
hm, could be, I had problems finding mention of the machine and it
took a bit of digging. you could well be right though.
--
Paul (We won't die of devotion)
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Essential Touch wrote:
>
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:55:35 GMT, Paul Heslop wrote:
>
> > don't own the machine but I just downloaded the pdf version of the
> > manual
> >
> > download at - http://tinyurl.com/2aab4p
> >
> > on the pdf, page 44 of 72 is video display settings and on looking at
> > these it mentions how to get into this setting and being able to
> > lighten or darken input levels. I am wondering if this is what you
> > need to be looking at, but if you try it I would do a test recording
> > or two to make sure it works.
>
> Odd, that option is not available on the menu page. It's a UK machine,
> perhaps that's why?
>
> -J
I can't find any mention of the 120 on the uk site, I think the
smallest was a 128
Apparently experts use a device between vhs and dvd to adjust the
input, brightness etc, but I'd have no idea of expense or anything
that could help you.
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