http://www.dvdhometheateronline.com/recorder-standalone/
Easiest and cheapest way to convert VHS to DVD?
Right now what I'm doing is connecting an old vcr to a hauppauge tv tuner with composite cables, playing the tape, then taking the video file and burning it to a DVD.
My grandmother has a ton of old vhs tapes, and I wanted to get her a standalone vhs to DVD converter that would be easy to use and faster than the way I'm doing it.
I have no idea what to look for in evaluating these products, and I had a bad experience with a standalone DVD recorder a few years ago that had a hard drive that made a ton of noise and wouldn't record some tennis matches because it said it was copyrighted.
Which of these products on the market now have quiet hard drives, are easy to use, and affordable?
I spent quite a bit of time researching what kind of HW/SW to purchase to convert my video library to DVD. In addition to the cost, I would have to spend time to feed the tapes/DVDs through the process. I was going to do 1-2 tapes each night for over a month.
In the end, I'd have hardware I didn't need after the DVD conversion was complete, so I decided to outsource it.
I did research on the conversion companies. Price and turnaround time were factors, but mainly I wanted a reputable company since I was giving/trusting them to get my tapes back safely. I chose The Photo Archival Company.
I got my 93 DVDs back in 2 weeks, labeled perfectly as I requested. I have already watched many of them and they are EXCELLENT!!! My final cost was just as originally quoted.
I'm very happy and feel like this was a good choice. This "answers site" is one of the sites I looked at when doing my research, so I thought I'd take a minute to write and save someone else the time...or help advise to go with a conversion company.
http://www.thephotoarchivalco.com
You can get a video conversion order at http://thephotoarchivalco.com/video_quote.asp
Cheers,
Sal
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