What's the best VHS to PC peripheral?

[Alpha1]

My dad wants me to copy all his old VHS tapes to digital media.

 

[andyman]

Don't bother with the USB to VHS rubbish on Feebay, a good capture card or a dvd recorder with RW discs and a good dvd ripping software like DVDRIP

 

[Alpha1]

Guess what I was looking at

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=vhs+capture&_sacat=0&_odkw=USB+VHS&_osacat=0&_from=R40

So what would you recommend for the capture card or DVD recorder +DVDRIP

 

[Alpha1]

What about something like this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panasonic-DVD-recorder-with-vhs-/271132473622?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_DVDPlayers_Recorders&hash=item3f20c13916

It's for my Dad so wondering if this is the easiest option - he can then hand me DVDs if he needs anything edited.

 

[andyman]

Easiest option, PM incoming

 

[Setch]

For an easy to use option I would go with the combi VHS - DVD-RW units that Alpha1 posted.

Especially if a non-tech head is going to be using it, in most cases its a 1 button press and you can just leave it running.

 

[Macro]

I had all sorts of video capture stuff on the PC, but got a cheap DVD recorder to connect up to the TC - it's so much easier!

if you have something you want in better quality, do it at the 1 hour per disk rate, overlap slightly and import the lot into the video editing software - then join together (at a suitable frame) and export the lot to DVD with 2 pass compression to fill the disc.

(DVD recorders do every frame as a P frame, so re-doing it on the PC will make it smaller without necessarily losing quality)

 

[bbz149]

What about something like this?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Panasonic-DVD-recorder-with-vhs-/271132473622?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_Video_DVDPlayers_Recorders&hash=item3f20c13916

It's for my Dad so wondering if this is the easiest option - he can then hand me DVDs if he needs anything edited.

I got some of those spare somewhere not sure what model, ill have to check tom

 

[bbz149]

Knew I had some somewhere

Let me know if you still need one. Bottom 2 have Harddrive recording and top 2 are VHS to DVD recorders

 

[Alpha1]

Thanks guys!

Will speak to my Dad and get back to you both.

 

[Purity]

Are they protected VHS tapes?

 

[Equites]

Are they protected VHS tapes?

Macrovision? Good point, probably old footage of Ol running around in his diapers.

 

[Alpha1]

Yes all family VHS stuff

 

[Milky]

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread. However, i picked this up yesterday and it has done a fairly good job of some old tapes I had;

www.maplin.co.uk/dazzle-dvd-recorder-96885

There is some "1 and done" software that is quite simple, or Studio14 recognises it too.

I now have a dvd of "Flight of Dragons" and "The Keep" again