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VHS -> Digital conversion

nevilleneville The Worst Gay(Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
edited December 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
I am trying not to acquire a bunch of new crap, since I have too much equipment + electronics as it is.
Anyone know of a good place that can convert VHS to digital? I'd be content with CD, although DVD would obviously be preferred.

I called Kinko's but they charge $20/VHS, which is outrageous.
Anyone know of anywhere that will do it for something... reasonable?

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  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I had some Digital8 put on DVD by a local shop for me and they charged me about $20 a tape. I think that's the going rate.

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  • nevilleneville The Worst Gay (Seriously. The Worst!)Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Oh.
    Man, that is lame.

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  • MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    That's about the going rate, I'm actually surprised it's that low.

    You said no more gear, but the Dazzle-thing is $50 for the basic, or $80 for the Delux. Obviusly you'd need to have more than a couple of tapes to make it worthwhile.

    http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Dazzle/Family.htm

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  • blincolnblincoln Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    If you are looking for a plug-and-play kind of thing, you could also investigate a standalone DVD recorder. A friend of mine bought one for doing this type of thing, since he's not a computer dork and didn't want to mess around with things like DVD authoring software. It basically functions like a VCR - get the source going, hit record, wait for the source to finish, hit stop.

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  • ElJeffeElJeffe Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2007
    You could probably buy a cheap DVD recorder, record all your media, then sell the recorder on eBay or something and recoup at least half the cost.

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  • bbmartinibbmartini Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    i was looking into this for my dad who wants to do something similar. i found this on newegg:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832201024

    from what i understand you plug the VCR into the included video capture device and use the software to rip and burn it to whatever.

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