Anyone else still using VHS?

Most of the things I had in VHS were movies (recorded from TV) and a few documentaries. Those are all gone. They were a waste of space.

I have converted to DCS the VHS tapes my family filmed. As I did not have a VHS player I sent everything to a company on the internet. If you only have a few tapes it will save you the hassle.

And with VHS you don’t have to skip through half a dozen trailers and anti-piracy warnings, various logos, and then wait for the menu to load up.

Don’t hit the rewind button while it’s still playing, though! I’ve wrecked a few tapes like that.

Yes VHS is still good with me too. I like the fact that with a VHS tape i can stop it at any point i wish and switch off, and then when i’m ready just press play and its still there ready to continue.

Rob

I have a large collection of pre- recorded aviation videos. A few, but not many, have surfaced on DVD, and fewer still on Blu Ray. So my dear old Sony VHS recorder is still a prized piece of machinery. I don’t record on it any more however. Having read the posts here, I am seriously contemplating shifting these videos to an alternative format.

I am in the process of transferring all my holiday/airshow vhs videos to DVD. i use Cyberlink Power Director. I’ve used a couple of others in the past but this seems the most stable, and easy to use.

Tony.

If I can’t catch a programme when it starts, I’ll record it onto VHS and then I can watch a DVD while the programme’s still recording. Of course, I don’t have anything whizzy like Sky+.

What’s VHS?

Yup, slowly transferring VHS tapes to DVD’s…………………………….:)

I don’t use VHS for recording anything, but I do still watch my VHS videos which I’ve not got round to copying over onto DVD yet. Only this week I’ve been watching ‘Wings over the World’ on VHS. I have never seen that series anywhere on DVD.

Ditto, we have connected our old VHS/DVD player combo to our new digibox/DVD/Blue Ray player/burner and now its just a case of finding the time to burn the VHS tapes onto the digi hard drive, and then download them onto DVD or Blue Ray. I have done one so far and the technology works fine.

I suspect a few will get transferred and then the rest will have to wait until I retire – by which time BlueRay and DVD will probably be “out of date” technology too 🙁

Paul F

Use an inexpensive USB to Video lead adaptor.
I just plug my VHS machine into my DVD recorder, and have converted quite a few of my old videos onto DVDs.

How do you convert VHS to DVD on a PC?

There are a few programs you can buy (/borrow) that take the VHS signal via a video in card and converts and saves the file in the format you want (AVI, MP4 etc.).

It is a couple of months since I have done one and I can’t remember the name of the software we are using. Its all written down in the “idiots guide” two of us wrote at work, so if needed again we could do it.

I will have a look tomorrow when I get to work and fin out the software used.

RMR

I still have a VHS machine but I don’t know if it will work as surely the little rubber bands perish? I do have one or two valuable VHS tapes (King Schools) but they are probably now available on DVD. Creaking Door, if you google “convert vhs to dvd” I’m sure you will have many hits of either machines to buy or people who have the machines and will do it for a small fee. My most prized VHS tape was an episode of a TV series for which I flew a plane. Sadly it was stolen in a burglary (just at about the time South Africa had its first democratic election) and was irreplaceable.

How do you convert VHS to DVD on a PC?

Mine is in use at work at the moment wired up to a PC to convert old (but relevant) training videos to DVD format.

Having moved offices about 7 years ago all the VHS players were recycled as nobody thought they were needed. So far I have converted 25-30 videos to DVD.

RMR