Better late than never! When I have digitizing S-video to DV I have been disappointed about less color saturation and darker pictures on DV result playback.
Finishing Hi8 I just continued with VHS and vhsc digitizing, where red and green were even lesser and weak.
What I now found out to my surprise is that it is really the MX-1/TBC that eats the colors in my work chain, and not as exspected the A/DV coversion.
MX-1 has been known to include an effective, fullframe TBC, 8bit/422 brilliant color depth/sampling and 500 lines resolution, especially the better PAL version. It is also a video mixer with noise filter an a lot of effects like Chroma key.
I have not found out if MX-1 can be set up with extended color saturation.
But I had and have tested a Videotech Design VCC3010 high resolution (700 lines!) RGB color corrector and video processor, with no need to decode!
A week ago I tested VCC3010 in front of MX-1, with no visible result.That is, MX-1 eat also these colors.
But now when VCC3010 is connected after (behind) MX-1, the colors and saturation on DN-300 DV record loop/playback could be returned close to the analog source.
Some will probably say colors can be added easy in the post. But I prefer also the digitalized sources with real correct colors.