Privacy reasons. I want to first put the data on a dvd and then make a back up onto a usb drive. I don’t want to use a cloud/streaming service. I’m trying to make a gift for my parents and take our family vhs videos and put them on dvd to preserve them. They still use dvds and don’t want the videos on a public platform.
Even if you don't want to put them on YouTube (just confirming you can make videos "private" so they can only been seen if you have the link), store the files as MP4 or MOV. Can keep them on Google Drive, Dropbox, or a hard drive. Physical media WILL fail at some point. By uploading to the cloud, your data should get backed up.
Certainly an option, but given how many people and businesses still use VHS I would dispute it being outdated. Same with DVDs. Local TV stations stopped using film 40 years ago, yet maintain film archives and equipment to play it rather that digitizing, It's cheaper
Actually many stations ARE taking the time and money to digitize their archives. Keeping old equipment operating will continue to get more expensive.
True. But as we learned here in California during the Santa Rosa wildfires, technology like cell phones and WiFi that residents relied on for evacuation information failed when towers burned up. Years ago Santa Rosa made utilities bury utility cables, and the buried landlines never failed. Nor did the EAS system on AM Radio, and ancient technology the most of us still have in our cars.
That's not typical. DVDs last much longer than VHS tapes do. According to Sony
I've been lucky so far with my VHS tapes. Dubbed some video from 1987 last month, played fine. But the tapes have been kept at a constant temperature.
There is a difference between a commercially pressed DVD and one burned at home.
I'm not sure the point you're trying to make. Cell phones and Wifi didn't work because of a fire, but older technology did? The AM radio in cars still works, sure, but if people aren't listening to it, they still don't get the information. Many people have satellite radio in their cars. Unless the smoke is extremely thick, they're still able to listen to that.
Well, it is an issue the California Office of Emergency services is studying so THEY are taking the knowledge they have of a certain situation that cost people their lives and seeing how can be done to prevent a repeat.. Getting people to remember there are more options than their cell phones and devices for emergency communications. Cell towers burned down. Landlines were buried and unaffected. EAS AM radio stations were 100 miles outside the fire area and not impacted by the fire.
I still prefer to do it myself for privacy reasons.
Oh, Okay then I think you should buy a video converter software and then try it yourself!
