Futzing about with VHS tapes and players
2011-03-09 20:26:10.781545+01 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
Futzing about with VHS tapes and players. I feel so 1980s. This is a technology I do not miss.
2011-03-09 20:26:10.781545+01 by Dan Lyke 6 comments
Futzing about with VHS tapes and players. I feel so 1980s. This is a technology I do not miss.
comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-09 21:31:27.491944+01 by: other_todd
I believe this is the point where I ask why.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-10 00:52:30.438819+01 by: Dan Lyke
I went out and bought a VHS to DVD machine, and am currently running it, so I never have to deal with this again.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-10 12:11:01.154651+01 by: DaveP
It was last fall I finally cleansed myself of all my VHS tapes (save one personal tape that'll probably never get converted).
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-10 16:49:56.90876+01 by: other_todd
I didn't bother. I was never a big recorder-of-things, and with the handful of movies I had on (aging) tape it seemed more reasonable just to try to get them on DVD if I felt I really wanted them.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-10 19:45:12.999599+01 by: ebwolf
I did this several years ago. It's amazing how much space VHS tapes occupy. It's also 100X easier to use a combined VHS to DVD machine than trying to use separate devices or, heaven help you, a video capture device on a computer.
With the VHS to DVD, you pop the tape in and a blank DVD and mash a button, walk away. All other solutions require more hands-on effort and probably 2X the length of time of your VHS tapes. As far as I know, there's no high speed VHS to DVD solutions on the consumer market.
#Comment Re: made: 2011-03-10 20:17:03.090715+01 by: Dan Lyke
I spent $129+tax pre-income-tax dollars (because it is legitimately for my business use, I'm looking at "highway of the future" videos from the 1990s) on a Magnavox copier that does exactly what Eric describes. I can set it to break up chapters at 5 or 10 minute boundaries. I just wish it detected the end of the tape a little better.
And, yeah, once it's on DVD I can import it to the computer, store it on the shelf, whatever.
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