Outsmarting Sony (or, Stupid U-Matic Tricks!)
So, part of the reconfiguration of my edit suite/man cave has been to recable everything to use S-Video instead of composite video for the highest quality video I can get from my collection of professional and prosumer gear. This was pretty easy on the S-VHS front since that's where S-Video was developed to begin with, and my Betacam deck does S-
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Is it safe to assume that if I see color out of my composite signal on the BVU-950 that my tape and player are matched "band-wise"?
How about if the DPS-295 output when set to WFM (waveform) shows good color bars but when set to TBC w/ an input of DUB results in only black-and-white image (from the BVU-950 deck DUB connector) that the DPS-295 and the deck are mis-matched high vs. low band?
Anyone know if the DPS-295 can be modified to take the alternative band? Am I barking up the wrong tree here?
Here is the blurb on the PALsite re: high and low band on the DUB connector. I can't seem to find much that will help me understand what either the DPS-295 uses nor how to tell what setting the decks have. Can the decks be modified easily?
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under "DUB CONNECTOR": http://umatic.palsite.com/features.html
"The Y component is the same as a standard "S Video" connector but the C part differs in that it contains the Chrominance but on the colour-under converted sub-carrier 685.991 (Lo-band) 983.803 (Hi-band). To interface Dub to S-Video you will need to modulate C on to a 4.43MHZ (PAL) carrier."
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