MITSUBISHI HS-HD2000U HD Super D-VHS VCR: NEW IN BOX Best-ever built-in TBC and noise reduction system! Start Price USD 395.00 Current Price USD 450.00 Time Left - Bid Count 6 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, August 18, 2008 End Time Monday, August 25, 2008 Location Brooklyn, NY See more about 'MITSUBISHI HS-HD2000U HD Super D-VHS VCR: NEW IN BOX' Description Here we have an MGA-Mitsubishi HDTV recorder model HS-HD2000U, the most optimized VCR ever made for playing VHS or SVHS on LCD/Plasma TV screens or for doing tape to DVD transfers. This was the first and last deck engineered from the ground up to make VHS play at maximum possible quality into digital devices. Always rare and getting scarce these days, it is a virtually unknown model that quickly becomes indispensable to those who need its unique features. This one is brand new in factory-sealed box with all original sealed accessories, remote, manual, wired IR Blaster for cable/satellie box control, and one D-VHS blank tape. Last year I picked up a few of these units for a huge VHS-to-DVD transfer project, this one was never used / surplus so it is now up for sale here on eBay. ***Please note: I have sold six of these units on eBay in the past year using this exact same listing each time, I specialize in this model. Recently I noticed another seller had ripped off my entire listing to use as his own: beware copycat listings!***The most important feature of this unit is its unique ability to make almost any VHS tape, no matter what condition or signal issues, play with watchable quality on modern flat screen displays. Pllasma and LCD panels do not tolerate standard-def videotape at all, the signal from VHS has all kinds of analog artifacts that mess with the digital video circuits in newer TVs. Perfect example would be older tapes recorded from analog cable-TV: more often than not if you play such tapes on your new flat screen TV using an ordinary VCR, you will get assorted distortions, jaggies and tearing in the picture. Even worse results occur using an ordinary VCR hooked up to a DVD recorder- the recorder often can't cope with the crummy VHS signal and you again risk a truly awful picture. No "black box" external TBC can fix these issues- we tried them all, only to find the tapes really need to be stabilized by the VCR itself internally.Enter the MGA HS-HD2000U. It has a built-in dedicated Time Base Corrector (TBC) tapped directly into the video heads, a 400-line 3D Y/C Digital Comb Filter, and Dynamic Color Noise Reduction. These  circuits can be switched on and off, and have variable levels.  Using them can mean a night and day difference in signal playback- I have never seen a VCR completely clean and optimize tapes for digital display/re-recording the way this one does. It is literally the only game in town for this purpose, you won't believe what it can do until you try it: way better than worn-out old JVC or Panasonic SVHS machines.The HS-HD2000U is rare because it was a limited-production, top-of-the-line special model that was primarily meant to be bundled with a couple of very high-end hellishly-expensive Mitsubishi flat-panel televisions. It relies on an IEEE1394 (iLink, FireWire) port that mates exclusively with the handful of iLink-capable MGA (or other)  HDTVs to exchange Hi Def data streams. If you have one of those TVs or a compatible HD cable/satellite box, this VCR can record in full HDTV quality directly from them. (Note however this vcr will NOT play the small selection of "HD Theatre" tapes released by the studios, it does not employ the embedded decryption they require.)Check my feedback: I specialize in electronics, and have sold several of these  new-in-factory-sealed-box units to very happy buyers. You will not be disappointed. Buyer pays actual shipping costs. Ships double-boxed, insured, with tracking number to continental USA only.Mitsubishi HS-HD2000U HDTV High Definition Digital D-VHS Player features: IEEE 1394 FireWire® with HAVi True HDTV Recording S-VHS record and playback Timebase Correction (TBC) Digital Noise Reduction 3DYC Comb Filter VCR Plus+ Gold® 5C Content Protection Front S-Video input Satellite receiver control S-Video Pass through TurboDriveT 500X FWD and REW speeds PerfecTape SelectT Analyzes the tape and makes fine adjustments for the best possible recording and playback. OTR (Advanced One-Touch Recording) makes last minute-programming easier by rounding the recording start time to the half hour, using one button. RentalXpressT Automatically rewinds and ejects the tape, then powers down when rental tapes are played to the end. 43 second FF/REW Auto Clock Front A/V inputs Multibrand Jog Shuttle Remote with LCD display Front Panel Jog-Shuttle Control Eight event program recording timer Place a Bid!