VHS to DVD converter

docj wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:


There are a lot of commercial movies which will NEVER,EVER be released on DVD. In fact there ARE many movies along with broadcast TV shows which have never been released to video of any type..

I can give one good example of that.. Ever heard of WW and the Dixie Dance Kings? It was a "B" movie staring Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed.. NOT RELEASED TO HOME VIDEO.. I have a copy on VHS which I recorded from broadcast back in the late 1980s.

This appears to be a DVD of that movie: http://www.santaflix.com/wdida.html

Ran into that one (plus a few “others”) a couple of years ago, it is not a “legit” factory pressed DVD.

That is a DVD ON DEMAND “service”, big difference and even THAT is a “questionable” source since the real source that the DVD is made from is not traceable and there is no way to know if that or any other DVD on demand is legit and paid all licensing/royalty fees.

I think you will find that ALL of the supposed “DVDs” for sale of this movie are nothing more than a badly made burned copy of a VHS tape which was recorded from over the air or early cable/sat days.. In fact the link you gave is a CROPPED picture of one of the movie posters that someone has photoshop’d the DVD logo onto.

Per TCM user reviews website HERE
the following reviewer (John Lombard in 10/8/13 ) stated “ Great Pre-Smokey Film”
“Released several years before "Smokey and The Bandit", Burt Reynolds is Great as W.W., along with Jerry Reed and Art Carney. Strange this film is not widely televised or available on Legitimate DVD.”


Not that I fully trust Wiki but the last entry there concerning this movie specifically states (which AGREES with the TCM reviewer..

HERE
As of 2013, the film has not been released on DVD or any other home video format.

In 2009 here is what was mentioned on Jalopy Journal..

HERE

“Fox Movies ran this tonight, and I hadn't seen it in years, so I watched - can't buy this movie on a legit R1 DVD for whatever reason.”

I think you will find that ALL of the supposed “DVDs” for sale of this movie are nothing more than a badly made burned copy of a VHS tape which was recorder from over the air or early cable/sat days.. In fact the link you gave is a picture of one of the movie posters that someone has photoshop’d the DVD logo onto.

There is a copy of the movie on You tube but is is very poor pixilated copy which looks worse than a VHS to DVD transfer would look.

Here is a Amazon review from 2013 for the BOOK the movie was based on..

HERE

“I've always loved this movie and have always looked for it on DVD...no luck so far...but the book is so true to the movie! Very easy read. A classic for a kid that loved the movie back in the 70s!”

My example is just one of millions of movies which most likely will never be released to home video.

Honestly, it is not unusual that many movies which were broadcast on TV stations or even cable channels which were never released to home video. Even back in the late 1980s not many movies were released on VHS or Beta and the ones that were released was done only for the video RENTAL market. It was not unusual for a block buster movie on VHS to cost the rental shop $200 PER COPY.. Blockbuster movies would get released to rental market, “B” movies seldom got released. It took a lot of rentals to make that money back.

Some movies, they CUT OUT IMPORTANT OR FUNNY SCENES to fit it onto DVD, a great example of this is a 1960s comedy movie called Its, a Mad, mad, mad, mad world..

One Amazon reviewer stated this HERE

“really wanted to like this DVD. I have the movie on VHS and enjoy it a lot. My reason for rating it so low was that it had almost 23 minutes missing from what was on the restored DVD version, including several memorable Phil Sivers moments. I see no reason why a DVD should offer less than the VHS. Shame on the producers of the DVD. What could they possibly have been thinking?”

Why mess with success? The original uncut version is often BETTER even if it is VHS.

Now for the OPs collection, I can understand the reasoning as to why the OP would like to transfer VHS to DVDs, especially if they PAID for a legit VHS of a movie.. Why buy another copy if you already have it.. Sometimes it is hard to swallow paying twice for something.

Video tapes and players will fail or degrade over time, so there will be a time that the OPs collection will be a doorstop and will be forced to buy new DVDs IF they are available and they fail to backup their collection.