Question about vhs and dvd's?

Question

I have tons of home vhs recordings that I would like to put on DVD. Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

yes

some dvd machines actually have instructions in its manual about how to copy the vds movies into dvd copies

just follow the instruction s=)

Answer 2

Your best bet would be to buy a DVD recorder with a built in hard drive.  You would then hook it up to your VCR (out from the VCR and in to the DVD recorder), and copy your VHS tapes to the hard drive of the DVD recorder.  You can then edit out commercials or anything you don't want and label the program.  From there, you copy it from the hard drive to a DVD.

I've been working on this project myself for awhile, and having a machine with a hard drive and editing capabilities makes it much easier and gives you a much better finished product.

Answer 3

Some walgreens pharmacies will record your VHS into DVD for aprox. $20 each.  But i'm sure there R some machines that u could buy to do this. (i'm also searching)

Answer 4

yes, if you buy a vhs dvd combi which has a dvd recorder you can. may possibly be able to do it with just a dvd recorder and plugin it into your vhs player but i'm not sure..

Answer 5

Yes, Sony offer a combo recorder that you can use to transfer vhs to dvd with 1 click...

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stor...

Answer 6

Hi gtahvfaith,

You can do it yourself by feeding the output of your VHS player into the input of a DVD recorder. Then plug the output of the DVD recorder into your TV so you can monitor what you are doing.

I embarked on a project to transfer my VHS tapes to DVD and I had some problems. First I found most of my VHS tapes had copy protection and could not be copied. I went to Best Buy and bought a "Simo T120 GoDVD" which you put in-line between your VHS player and your DVD recorder. It removes the copy-guard and "enhances" the video. It was, I think, $59.95.

Remember that to start with your VHS quality is passable but certainly far below a DVD. Now the copy process degrades it further. Don't get me wrong - my copies are certainly watchable.

The other thing that wore me down was you have to copy in real time. A two hour movie takes two hours to copy. I learned to set it up before I went out and just let the tape and DVD run out. If a movie is over two hours you have to use the four hour mode on the DVD recorder. That reduces the quality slightly.

That is my experience. I still have some tapes I haven't copied but my stack is greatly reduced.

Back to the Simo - I can't testify how much the video enhancer feature actually did because I didn't compare two copies of the same thing. The quality I got was acceptable so I just tolerated it.

Norm