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INDEXVHS's I have about a hundred VHS's which I'd like to have transferred to DVDs. Any thoughts of a cheap way of doing this.
11 years, 4 months ago - Adelle Filmmaker
Need to transfer my VHS's to DVDs.
I live in South London and am looking for cheap options to have them all transferred...
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11 years, 3 months ago - Adam Ethan Crow
Hi I had the same problem while ago, I looked around and found it quite expensive. So I bought a video to DVD recorder and converted them myself. I still have the machine, it is boxed an as new and sitting in my back room - I am in the middle of a clear out so if you want it, throw me 20 quid for a curry and pick it up from West London and it is yours. You put in a tape put in a DVD and let it copy while Im doing other things. I converted around 25 tapes - other than that. It is unused.
Let me know mail@adamethancrow.com
Adam.
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11 years, 3 months ago - Eric Jukes
I agree with Adam's answer for a cheap method, but it is also a bit of a sloppy method. It might be OK if all VHS tapes were 2 hours duration but they are 3 or 4 hours. I had about 300 or so VHS recordings. I bought a new Panasonic 1Tb hard drive Blu-ray (or DVD) machine - connected it to my old VHS player and recorded to the hard drive of the Panasonic disc recorder. Then I could edit the recordings before transferring to DVD - could transfer to Blu-ray to fit more on. Don't go down the route of squeezing the maximum possible on a DVD. You have to select the quality and the two hours per DVD gives you a recording that it bearable on a 47" TV. Squeeze on any more and it will look awful. You don't need the Blu-ray burner like me probably and could look for a second hand Sony machine which is what I had before. Obviously it is not a quick job.
Eric
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11 years, 3 months ago - Kays Alatrakchi
Why would you want to transfer obsolete media unto another type of obsolete media? My advice is for you to buy something like this:
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/videorecorder
Transfer everything to h.264 on a hard drive. Then if you're concerned about backing up, upload it all into a private Vimeo account for posterity.
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11 years, 3 months ago - Jendra Jarnagin
Yeah, I ended up doing mine myself as well. Buying a machine and just letting them rip when I was home doing other stuff was WAY cheaper.
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