Victor HR-W5....my new toy....

Damn right.

 

heh

I like it because yeah, it's something that I've always wanted to have. I just tested out the record function.....maybe it works, not sure. I'm trying to use my XBOX.....but it's that a different kind of signal (digital?). Getting a picture and sound but garbled.

There's a niche group of collectors who like older Japanese HD items, like the laserdisc players.

 

Just FYI, as Alecjahn pointed out, W-VHS is 1035i, NOT 1080i.

 

Anyone by chance know about my XBOX question? I'm plugging it in to the back of the W-VHS and recording, but am I playing with two different kinds of signals (analog vs. digital)? Like I said it records but the picture is garbled..... I might have to pick up a MUSE LD player to test it out but I'd rather not...

 

MUSE Hi-vision (what the W-VHS records, 1125 lines or 1035 displayed interlaced lines) and 1080i (current HDTV) signals are different. For a start MUSE Hi Vision is 5:3 ratio rather then 16:9 (or 5.333:3) which means that the sync and blanking signals would be different so you would get garbage when trying to record.

There are devices that will convert 1080i to 1035i so you can record 1080i signals to W-VHS.

Page 123 of the manual should explain it better.

 

Haha -- did you read my population tidbits in Japan! Japan! This place really is a Tokyo-based society.

 

the fact you know the exact page amuses me.

 

Thanks a lot for the help, Jamtex. I was plugging my 360 directly into the HD input ports on the back of the W-VHS. I was surprised when I was able to get anything to record from it. I actually have an HLD-1000 coming in so I'll give that a shot, but I don't think the HLD-1000 is 1035i.

 

The HDR-1000 is a Hi-Vision LD player, but requires a MUSE decoder (either stand alone or built into a TV hence the lack of component or D-Terminal sockets) for you to watch it in HD. I beleive you can hook up the LD player to the HR-W5 to decode the MUSE image but don't quote me on that.

 

What I did was hook up the LD player to a Victor MUSE decoder that had ports for the W-VHS. It went LD player --> MUSE Decoder --> W-VHS --> TV. I gave it a shot tonight and I was able to record from HD laserdisc to the W-VHS cassette. I'm not sure if the decoder was an unnecessary step, but I do know that the W-VHS didn't require a MUSE decoder to watch cassettes. It went straight from the rear port of the W-VHS to the D4 input on my TV and played fine.

What you see below is the end result....Chaplin recorded from an HD laserdisc playing on a W-VHS cassette:

 

Glad it worked for you. Can you show us a picture of the spagetti at the back of the units? And a nice picture of the ports (esp the MUSE ones at the top) of the VCR?

I am sure you could hook up the LD player straight to the VCR as I am sure that it has the MUSE decoder ports on the VCR.

It does look like a fantastic set up. Going to find a decent D-VHS recorder next?

The one thing I always wanted to get is a VHD player...

 

Yes I did. You only have to watch TV to know that japan thinks the entire country is Tokyo and anything outside is farmland. Sort of pisses me off the way EVERYTHING is in Tokyo. They'll soon wish they didn't plant all their eggs in one basket when the big one comes!

 

It used to be the same in France,

Paris, c'est la France

 

Will this suffice for now? Everything is put away....I have to drag down my monitor/tv from upstairs every time I test out an HD unit...heh:



The MUSE ports are at bottom. Left is input, right is output. You can hook up cables to the right output directly to a TV and watch W-VHS videos without a decoder.

I took the LD player and connected it to the decoder, then used the W-VHS OUT ports on the decoder and connected to the HD/MUSE in ports on the left/bottom that you see on the W-VHS. Naturally I connected the MUSE cable from the LD player to the decoder. From there I used the HD OUT ports on the W-VHS (right side) to connect to my TV.

I used a Victor HD-MD2 decoder which is the only one I've ever seen with W-VHS outputs. I'm wondering if adding a Sony MSC-4000 into the mix would require some changes. I guess you're use the TV OUT ports and feed them into the W-VHS.

I was just so glad to get a good recording...heh. One odd thing is that the menu options for the VCR don't show on HD. You have to connect the composite cables and switch the input on your TV. I suppose I should have tried it out without the decoder. There is a MUSE input on the W-VHS that you can see near the top. I used the input on the decoder instead so it must have been doing something....

VHD? Pretty cool toy to play with. I've owned a few of them, including a couple of 3D models (is there any other kind to own??). I'm still trying to hunt down one of the VHD game disks....still haven't gotten that one.

 

Just to clarify, could the PSX DVR unit record anything above SD? Muse perhaps?

 

whats this muse you guys are discussing?

 

Damn that is one NICE deck !

Never even heard of W VHS before

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_sub-nyquist_sampling_Encoding


If I understand correctly, you would slap the MUSE decoder box in between your player and your TV or VCR or whatever if that end device didn't have MUSE-compatible inputs?

 

Yep, the W-VHS does have a MUSE to NTSC decoder built in.

 

Hmmm....I wonder if I could hook up the LD directly to the W-VHS and use the HD LINE to watch the LD. That would make the external decoder unnecessary for watching HD LDs, instead using the W-VHS only as a decoder. In all reality the only reason I used the decoder was because there were W-VHS ports, but now I'm wondering if that was acting more like a selector/splitter for TVs that have just one component input...