Save your VHS gems to disc with Roxio's Easy VHS to DVD

[The News Bot]

Roxio is offering a solution to the problem of disintegrating VHS collections with Easy VHS to DVD, a hardware-and-software solution making it easy to transfer precious VHS material to your PC, then to DVD.  read more »

[Papua]

I've just transferred all my vhs over to dvd and I reckon that the tapes have lastest far longer than dvds will.

I was transferring tapes that were 26 years old and some of them had been attacked by mold. I was still able to transfer everything. There were a few bad portitions of tape but vhs tape was always like that.

Conversely I have been unable to read DVD's recorded only a couple of years ago and I've tried reading them in seven different dvd drives of different makes. Consequently I've backed up the dvd transfers onto two different makes and dyes of disc to make sure that I don't lose them.

Also to those that say that everything is released on dvd, I've found that not to be the case at all.

[Roy999]

This is excellent kit, I used it to transfer my old vhs tapes to DVD.

The only problem I found was that it won't convert any protected videos eg your Disney tapes or Hollywood movies. Saying that (and I have done a lot of research in this) nobody sells software to overcome this.

In order to do this you need a video transfer company with the equipment. Hence the next problem, I couldn't find one who would do the conversion until i had a letter in writing from the copyright owner which is impossible. Well I say impossible but I didn't even try.

In the end I was told to buy a very old top loading VCR as these ignore the anti piracy coding.

I bought mine from these chaps vhs to dvd, as they were selling off a lot of old kit. I'm not sure if they have any left. However you can buy them from Ebay and your local rag.

[pshisbey]

Excellent kit? If so then why is it getting such terrible reviews on Amazon.com? I tend to side with the reviews; I just purchased it and it doesn't even install. My computer meets the requirements. I've contacted roxio yesterday, but after reading the support others got, I don't expect much from them. It's starting to look like the best way for me to get my VHS-C tapes to DVD is with Toshiba's DVR610 recorder and return this roxio software.

[bondyboy63]

I used this company to transfer 10 protected VHS Videos to DVD's www.vhstodvd.co.uk
Parcelforce collected my tapes about 2 hours after I contacted "vhstodvd" and the DVD's and my original VHS tapes were delivered back to me about 10 days later, couldn't fault the service.
All I had to do was make a written declaration that I would not show the DVD's publicly.

[Alicatt]

I use a professional JVC SVHS for transfers, it has rescued some tapes that were so worn out that the sync and colour burst were almost gone. I play back from it to the PC through a D8 camcorder or direct to my Pioneer LX DVR

[Pactacus]

Originally Posted by pshisbey

Excellent kit? If so then why is it getting such terrible reviews on Amazon.com? I tend to side with the reviews; I just purchased it and it doesn't even install. My computer meets the requirements. I've contacted roxio yesterday, but after reading the support others got, I don't expect much from them. It's starting to look like the best way for me to get my VHS-C tapes to DVD is with Toshiba's DVR610 recorder and return this roxio software.

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I am new to this group, so forgive any odd trespass of the Ethic - I am 70 years old - I know, but it wasn't my idea! I was fascinated by this posting as I had bought a Toshiba DF-VR17KB (eBay) with the idea of transferring all my personal movies to DVD, of course, I never got around to that, just copying TV science programmes for my grandson in South Africa. That is what Granddads do.

So as an experiment I decided to 'Back-Up' Star Wars Mk 1 (Chapter IV to aficionados) to see what it could do. It is a relatively simple process, just read the manual. To push the system to the limit I recorded at the best quality (1 hour). I expected to ruin the whole thing as the movie lasts <2 hours. But this was just an experiment and I was prepared to sacrifice a DVD disc.

The Tosh stopped and I loaded another blank disc and off it went again - amazing!

After finalising the DVDs I played it all back again, tweeking the settings on the LCD TV (a Tevion) and the play back was better than the original. OK so it is in 4:3 but again you can tweek, but you might wind up with a 'Death Star' that is not spherical.

I have do idea whether this original VHS tape was protected in any way, but it all worked fine. If you have a lot of tapes to 'back up' (I am no pirate) then this machine does it all and in principle you could record all the episodes back to back as it can record up to 8 hours.

But come on, this is 'Star Wars' and only the best will do.

Jim

[MacUK]

I have had limited success with these black box solutions, not used the roxio one but I have tried two different pinnacle ones and another that I can't remember who makes it. After much messing about I found another company that did a cracking job. Company was called Vinyl to Digital and they converted a bunch of VHS, 8mm and MiniDV tapes to DVD for me.

Link here if it helps: VHS to DVD Company

They also do a whole bunch of audio stuff as well and prices are decent. I think about 8 tapes cost just over £50.00.

Hope it helps.
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