SQPB - what is it?

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Originally Posted by DVtyro

Nice! I guess since it is a VHS/DVD combo, Toshiba decided to reuse SVideo and HDMI outputs for both sources, which is what I expect from EVERY VHS/DVD combo machine. Sadly, most of them use SVideo and HDMI for DVD only.

Do you have a proper SVHS machine? Have you compared the quality from an SVHS machine to this Toshiba when played off SVideo output?

I have MANY S-VHS and S-VHS-ET decks... I made a sub-hobby of collecting them a decade ago when the local thrifts had ~50 VCRs on the shelves per store (the S-VHS, beta, and top loaders were what I bought). I'd need to pull the Toshiba out of my rack or rig up a 25' S-video cable and connect AV directly to my 'modern TV' to properly compare. It's going to be a few days before I have time.

Back when I was time shifting on S-VHS-ET a decade ago my main TVs were a 1964 Silvertone CTC-16 clone roundy color and a 1971 Zenith 12B13C52 color fed through RF so quality difference wasn't as distinct. I don't think I've ever had the Toshiba directly AV linked to a set that was built during my lifetime.

My current video setup is kind of a weird mish mash of eras. My modern TV is Sony 1080i Super-fine-pitch Trinitron HD-CRT fed HDMI and RF from my main rack, and all the non-HDMI sources in my main rack (most of it) and all the HDMI sources via analog output or conversion feed into some Blonder Tongue AM60s that transmit NTSC house wide to all my vacuum tube sets. I've got around 100 TVs almost all of which are pre-solid state. I don't even own a flat panel set currently.