Video to DVD Conversion

[monkeyboy]

Has anyone converted VHS tapes to DVD?
if so what was the cost?

 

[onecoolmama]

MB are you looking for the machine so you can do it yourself, or a place to take it to?

 

[bjgrazi]

I'm interested in this too, I have a few I'd like to perserve.

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by onecoolmama
MB are you looking for the machine so you can do it yourself, or a place to take it to?

I was wonderinf if a place that does them would be able to make it like a real DVD with secene selection all and all

Otherwise I would just buy a machine

 

[Towncrier]

You can spend the money for a decent PC, video capture device, and DVD burner with some authoring software and do the job yourself. If you have the time. That's the only sure way to get the chapters where you want them. I checked into having some videos copied to DVD and the websites that I saw usually just dropped a chapter in every 5 minutes.

I assume that you want to copy your own videos to DVD. If you try to copy commercial videotapes (which have Macrovision copy protection), you won't be able to unless you go to extraordinary means to defeat the copy protection. You standard standalone DVD recorder will not make copies of commercial videotapes.

 

[Mark P.]

Where can one be purchased? Best Buy, etc.?

 

[oogieboogie]

best buy, compusa, newegg.com

I personally like newegg. They've got good prices and are very prompt in their shipping.