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Old 20th Jan 2019, 2:12 pm   #13
Tester.
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Default Re: RGB signals from a VCR

Just for facts sake: (VCRs/DVRs with) RGB signals didn't "get around that pesky Macrovision protection" by default. Some (few) models perhaps did; but RGB signals weren't inmune to MV by design, quite on the contrary.

Also, given that VHS was inherently a (modified) composite format family (it records colour-under), there was NO real advantage in RGB output over S-Video. The latter was as good as (S-)VHS got.


That said, there were a few (S-)VHS VCRs with RGB out —
  • some early ones from Philips (VR813, as already mentioned, but the picture in RGB wasn't that great),
  • some pro series from Panasonic/JVC (e.g. AG-8700, component out)
  • Philips and JVC even marketed (briefly) a couple of S-V → RGB transcoders (at the time, there were few TVs with a S-Video input): Philips AV5181, JVC KMV7
  • and later, the Thomson DVH-8090 could output RGB too (but only recorded composite or S-Video — even from the RGB-in, even in D-VHS!).

And —as @mhennessy & @cmjones01 pointed out— the S-VHS models quoted by @emeritus are RGB-passthrough only.
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