VHS - DVD

posted 12 years ago by fysty-401-331015
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I have somewhere around a hundred first rum VHS tapes & would like to convert to DVD. I do have a VHS - DVD player recorder but it is complicated to use & converts in real time. What I would love to beable to find is a stand alone VHS player that I can connect via USB cable to my 'puter of even better will high speed copy digitally that I can then transfer to my puter. Does anyone have a suggestion that will help this old broad? I am not very techno-saavy. I can set up a VCR/DVD player or home theatre, but not much else. I joke that I am still @ grade 1 level on computers. At least this old broad is trying. hehehehe
fysty-1
Surrey, B.C.
Canada

[–] blaque108 12 years ago

I'm not sure how that works. I have some VHS I would love to convert to DVD.

[–] mikejonas 12 years ago

You'll want something like this:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Da zzle/Dazzle+Video+Archiving/Dazzle+DVD+Recorder+Plus.htm

[–] fysty-401-331015 12 years ago

Just looked that system & I have a similar system but it still requires that the VCR be played @ normal recorded speed (eg 2hrs), so that mean for me to download my VHS tapes to disc, I first have to spend 320hrs(160 tapes) downloading to my comuter then the time it takes to creat DVD's. There are audio cassette devices out there that high speed dub but I have never been able to find any kind of VHS players that will high speed dub.

fysty-1
Surrey, B.C.
Canada

[–] dangus 12 years ago

I really doubt that you'll find a high-speed VHS deck except possibly in professional video gear.
http://www.avsforum.com/t/1350185/high-speed-backup-of-vhs-tapes

Use a DVD recorder that you can just start and forget about, then you can do two or three tapes a day. (Start one at breakfast, another when you get home, another before bed.) Get another VCR and DVD recorder from a yard sale or thrift store; then you can do 6 tapes a day.

On the other hand, hard drive storage is cheap. If you capture to DV quality AVI (for ease of editing), that's about 13 gigs per hour. So, you can capture 3 tapes a day, 6 days a week, and take up less than 500G of space. Then, hopefully there's some video editing software that will let you mark the edits and stuff to export, and then process them unattended.

Maybe use a combination, depending on the content. Heave the movies taped off cable TV onto DVD-R blanks. With home videos, take the time to edit them into chapters on the computer.