No Time Left For VCRs?

VHS to DVD copy machine ??

In article , snipped-for-privacy@zekfrivolous.com says...>

Copy protection?

On recorded tapes ???

In article , snipped-for-privacy@zekfrivolous.com says...>

Absolutely! My DVDR refuses to copy prerecorded tapes.

I actually did some converting and editing a couple years back. Editing and compiling on a computer is time consuming, allthough you can take important sections out of tapes and eliminate crap, time saving when viewing. I bought $650 Sony cancorder that had video inputs which I connected to the VHS machine, fed by Firewire into the computer. Wallmart had converters cheap as $80 a couple years back, but after I started using my Sony. Some VHS converters have a built in hard disk so you can edit then burn to DVD.

I guess it records blank tapes !

I said recorded. Not pre recorded.

Who needs to record a bought movie. Get the high resolution DVD.

In article , snipped-for-privacy@zekfrivolous.com says...>

Editing certainly is time consuming. Useful, if painful, for personal video, not so much for commercial tapes.

If I were to do any, I'd rather capture on the computer directly.

can edit

But refuse to copy some prerecorded tapes. My Lite-On DVD-R throws up the equivalent of an FBI notice when I tried.

In article , snipped-for-privacy@zekfrivolous.com says...>

Good grief.

Learn to read.

Learn to read. 1) Not all titles have been made available on DVD.

2) Why should I (have to) buy another copy of what I already have a license for? 2a) I would, but see 1).

Answer for the above: NO, not for me.

A tape can suffer your above scenarios, but it is avoidable by the user. A DVR erasing or "losing" a recording is random and the fault of the DVR. No matter how careful a user is, the DVR *will* make recordings go "poof."

How do you record HD programming? In SD?

Plus, Panasonic's new DMP-BD70V will upconvert VHS to 1080p via HDMI.

My DVR, a Sony digital TAPE camcorder will not loose a recording but the tape could get screwed up. Digital tape is also a storage medium.

greg

I have no interest in HD programming.

-- Roger Blake (Subtract 10s for email. "Google Groups" messages killfiled due to spam.) "Obama dozed while people froze."

If only VHS approached SD...

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On Feb 23, 11:44=A0am, Roger Blake wrote: > On 2009-02-23, UCLAN wrote: >

If you watch major network TV, they're only giving you HD in primetime. Granted your converter box will down-convert the HD to SD which you can use with all the older gear.

I assume you've seen HD operating properly. It doesn't do _anything_ for you?

We watched Nature last night on PBS. Those Yellowstone shots sure are impressive in HD

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Thats interesting. One thing I have been looking into is converting HDTV to my standard NTSC video input on my Toshiba 36 inch tube TV. The TV had a great picture and it was more than capable of reproducing standard definition broadcast and room to spare.

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Hard work? If these videos are worth keeping, they're worth the 2 hours (mostly unattended) to capture to a PC, 5 minutes to cue them all up in a conversion application for the target output (if the machine wasn't fast enough to do this in realtime, which modern dual + core processors easily are, and another few minutes to put onto DVD or whatever.

What's the alternative? You feel magnetic tape won't degrade sitting around for years longer?

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Since movies aren't a life necessity, it's hardly important whether every last one is available on DVD. What if you dupe only those that aren't available on DVD yourself, or just accept that you don't really need a library of every movie you've already seen once.