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Originally Posted by Becky
Is there any place that does this kind of stuff professionally? Will they convert videos of TV shows that are copyrighted? I don't have time to do it myself and I have over 200 video tapes sitting in cabinets getting old.
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There are place that do convert old VHS's, but most won't convert copyrighted material.
As to transferring the tapes yourself, the method described above probably works, but is overkill for most VHS's as the quality of the original is shady at best.
I bought an LG external DVD-drive with analogue video inputs and I've been using that along with capture software (AVS4YOU or DScaler) to transfer VHS's to MPEG-2 and the quality has been at least very passable, if not good. The $20 USB sticks don't seem to work too well, I've tried a few, but they don't seem get a decent signal out of any of my 3 VHS VCR's. The LG drive works with all of them.
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