vhs to dvd

If you already watched them, what does it matter? Would you ever watch them again?

You would be better off looking on eBay for DVD copies of the VHS movies you really want to watch. You will not be happy with the results of copying VHS to DVD. You will be copying a dead technology to a dying one.

rk911 wrote:

buta4 wrote:
How??

google is your friend but...there are professional firms that will do this for a price (we know from personal experience), not terribly pricy. option B, find someone like us who has a VHS/DVD recorder/player in which a dubbed copy can be made either way.

Not if they're copyrighted motion picture VHS? The duplicators would get slapped with legal action, possibly both criminal and civil. The FBI still does raids on bootlegged operations.

Makes more sense as suggested and buy the DVDs or Blurays. Used at thrift stores can go for $1.+

speak of good timing...here's a Groupon deal for the very thing you're looking for.

as for quality...an analog recording to digital media will generally end up being somewhat less than analog quality due to the resultant video being a copy. a pro can offset some of this, maybe even a lot of that. if the VHS originals are keepsakes such as weddings, birthdays and the like then consider having them converted professionally but be sure to enquire about the resulting quality. if they're just movies you'd like to be able to play on a DVD player AND digital quality is muy importante to you then I'd just buy new DVD versions and chuck the VHS.

A couple of issues. If the VHS are movies, then they were likely encrypted with Macrovision. Simply connecting a VHS player to DVD recorder will just result in unstable picture sync issues.

Another issue as mentioned is that VHS typically had between 220-240 lines of resolution. Recording to DVD would upscale to 480 lines, which would result in soft picture with no details.

Sam's Club can do it for you...

Transferring VHS movies to DVD is certainly possible but the quality would be totally unacceptable. I would just keep watching those on a VHS player. And anything new you should consider a streaming service like Netflix, or buy Blue Ray disks.

When I did it I had to play them on a VHS player whose output went to the input of a DVD recorder. Took forever.

buta4 wrote:
How??

google is your friend but...there are professional firms that will do this for a price (we know from personal experience), not terribly pricy. option B, find someone like us who has a VHS/DVD recorder/player in which a dubbed copy can be made either way.

How??