Not much to add to what @joem said.
Analog to digital video conversion relies on a pixel clock to sample the incoming signal, pixel clock which is derived from the external video sync, so when the sync is invalid (as when process with CBV001), the whole decoding gets tricky as it depends on a unreliable pixel clock.
Then it is possible to have the ADC in free running mode (its own pixel clock unrelated to the external video sync), so the full signal can be sampled regardless of the validity of sync, though it will still asks to âre-clockâ the external video and identify sync somehow, and decide what to do when there is no valid sync (hold the last frame, try to display it). So I donât think TBC2 would be limited by the hardware to support invalid signals, though I imagine it would be a lot of work in the digital realm. And TBC2 does work as intended, which is to bring two asynchronous video sources into the system, upscale/downscale/interlace/deinterlace, and convert them to RGB on a shared sync.
I donât think it comes from the fact LZX would dislike glitch stuff, itâs just tricky to deal with non-valid signals, and maybe not a priority.
When it comes to broadcast TBCs or digital mixer internal TBCs, itâs important to keep in mind that at the time they were designed, Composite video and VCR where the current standards, which means that video gear manufacturers could have full teams working on those complex digital systems, and addressing common issues like signal stability, because there was enough demand for that.
Thatâs why I went for another, simpler approach, which is sync restoration like Stable and sync-ope does, as it doesnât involve any digital signal processing, mostly extracting clean sync from the non-glitch source, and then re-insert it after the signal has been glitched. Combined with black and white level clipping, it ensure that the signal at the output is always valid. Works well with TBC2. Then of course, the hard glitches caused by sync corruption are corrected.
Sync-ope would benefit from a better clipping circuit, as sync re-insertion is important, but black level clipping is as much important, as any signal going under black level will be interpreted as sync by the receiving device. Then it should already help a lot than no stabilisation at all, here is a recording I did with CBV001 and Sync-ope, and it works quite decently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGB2AVLldoQ
Though there is a little bit of instability, I havenât tried it with TBC2 so maybe itâs not stabilized enough to have it decoded properly.
As mentioned, a sync restorer still relies on a clean sync at its input, so VCR or an already glitched source wonât work unfortunately.