VHS Tape Transfer To DVD: My father bought an 8mm film camera when I was young. After he died, we were looking through stuff and discovered many, many reels of 8mm film that he had...

Falcon Loc: Abilene, Texas

My father bought an 8mm film camera when I was young. After he died, we were looking through stuff and discovered many, many reels of 8mm film that he had shot. The idea came to us to convert all that 8mm film to VHS in order to better preserve those precious family memories. Well, technology moves on and now we see the need to convert the VHS tapes to DVD. Although there are many places who will do this conversion, they are expensive--and we have a lot of VHS tapes to convert!
Does anyone have any experience with, or knowledge of, equipment to convert VHS tapes to DVD? There are many tape players and DVD players and even quite a few combo units, but I am looking for something that will allow a VHS tape to be played by the unit and recorded to a DVD burner in the unit. If the unit will also record to VHS and DVD from the TV, then that is a bonus.

OriginalCyn Loc: Connecticut

Falcon wrote:

My father bought an 8mm film camera when I was you... (show quote)

I just spent the last few weeks with my converting machine on the dining room table to convert VHS to DVD. I used a Toshiba DVR620KU. I hooked it up to a monitor because you need to see the video to cue it up and run the remote menus. Not that bad once I got into the process. I bought it a half a year ago, and it might have cost $160? But that is an estimate based on memory. Good luck!

Falcon Loc: Abilene, Texas

Cyn--
Thanks, that is exactly what I was looking for--a specific machine and someone who knew about it.

Nikon_DonB Loc: Chicago

I have a Sony VHS to DVD recorder. It works great. The Model # is RDR-VX515.

JustBNme Loc: The Darkside...

Falcon wrote:

My father bought an 8mm film camera when I was you... (show quote)

HSN has one...
Sony DVDirect Recorder with DVD-R Disc 25-pack Item: 107-303
HSN Price: $199.95 or 3 payments of $66.65

You will need aVCR or you can use a camcorder or a memory card also....
Shipping & Handling: $9.95

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

I use this:
VHS To DVD 4.0 Deluxe by Honest Technology. Works well, but version 5 is out now. $50 is a reasonable investment, IMO.
http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-DVD-5-0-Deluxe/dp/B0040FT30O/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1328966674&sr=1-1

Falcon Loc: Abilene, Texas

arphot wrote:

I use this:
VHS To DVD 4.0 Deluxe by Honest Technology. Works well, but version 5 is out now. $50 is a reasonable investment, IMO.
http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-DVD-5-0-Deluxe/dp/B0040FT30O/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1328966674&sr=1-1

It never occurred to me to look for something that would use the DVD burner on a computer. Boy, the more you learn, the more there is to learn.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

Nikon_DonB wrote:

I have a Sony VHS to DVD recorder. It works great. The Model # is RDR-VX515.

I have the Sony too. I have coppied many VHS to DVD. The only problem that I have is that the new DVD video does not seem to be able to be edditted in some of the software programs that I have.

Nikon_DonB Loc: Chicago

Meives wrote:

Nikon_DonB wrote:

I have a Sony VHS to DVD recorder. It works great. The Model # is RDR-VX515.

I have the Sony too. I have coppied many VHS to DVD. The only problem that I have is that the new DVD video does not seem to be able to be edditted in some of the software programs that I have.

I have the same issue. I believe it has to do with Sony's file format.

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

arphot wrote:

I use this:
VHS To DVD 4.0 Deluxe by Honest Technology. Works well, but version 5 is out now. $50 is a reasonable investment, IMO.
http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-DVD-5-0-Deluxe/dp/B0040FT30O/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1328966674&sr=1-1

Do you know if this setup will produce a format video that is able to edit? The sony is very hard to edit. If this one produced a WMV or something like that it would be really nice.

PhotoMan1929 Loc: Virginia, USA

I use a Magnavox ZV457MG9 combination machine - digital TV tuner, VHS recorder, DVD recorder and VHS to DVD dubbing. It has editing features as well. It cost about $159 at Radioshack - Walmart also sells them.

arphot Loc: Massachusetts

Meives wrote:

Do you know if this setup will produce a format video that is able to edit? The sony is very hard to edit. If this one produced a WMV or something like that it would be really nice.

These are the Input/Output Formats:

Video Input : AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MOV
Image Input : JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG
Video Output : MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, VCD, SVCD, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, WMV

I would say yes as I edit those formats with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0

You can find more product info here:
http://www.honestech.com/main/vhs-to-dvd-50-deluxe.asp

Meives Loc: FORT LAUDERDALE

arphot wrote:

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arphot Loc: Massachusetts

Meives wrote:

Thank you, arphot

:thumbup:

egj0307 Loc: Out west

I purchased one of these from Amazon also and have had good results with it copying both VHS tapes and DVDs. But I bought it when it was on sale at Amazon for about $35 making it an even more reasonable investment.

arphot wrote:

I use this:
VHS To DVD 4.0 Deluxe by Honest Technology. Works well, but version 5 is out now. $50 is a reasonable investment, IMO.
http://www.amazon.com/Honestech-VHS-DVD-5-0-Deluxe/dp/B0040FT30O/ref=sr_1_1?s=software&ie=UTF8&qid=1328966674&sr=1-1