How to get rid of a VCR?

[yyyiiikes]

I so want to eliminate the family VCR but my wife wants to hold onto some old tapes. How well do these DVD recorders work when fed by a VCR source?

Thanks!

[Colorado Blu Skies]

Originally Posted by yyyiiikes

I so want to eliminate the family VCR but my wife wants to hold onto some old tapes. How well do these DVD recorders work when fed by a VCR source?

Thanks!

What's a VCR?

[jw]

Originally Posted by yyyiiikes

I so want to eliminate the family VCR but my wife wants to hold onto some old tapes. How well do these DVD recorders work when fed by a VCR source?

Thanks!

they work great, but dont expect dvd quality as it wont look any better than the vhs itself

[darkpoet25]

I do know the shorter the recorded length the better the picture. So if you are going to use one, 2-4 hours should give you decent PQ.

[ESUNintel]

They do a good job, I would reccomend the Sony or Panasonic recorders.

Nice to know there's a VCR out there that survived extiction.

[Manco]

Find a current HD-DVD owner.
I hear they like junk like this.

[clyon]

your not going to get anything better then the source material, the VHS (whatever that is )

[Wheelman1970]

E-bay.

[sj001]

Donate it, that's what I did with mine.

[Trean]

Look for deals and slowly replace all the video tapes on blu-ray or even dvd... blu-ray would be better though!

Then give the VHS tapes to goodwill or something. Along with the VCR if it works. I am sure there is a shelter of some sort that you could donate the player and the movies to.

[gvortex7]

Send it to a museum or sell it to an antique shop.

[YouSmellLikeBeans]

Stuff the tape slot with used condoms douche applicators.

[Pictor]

Originally Posted by Colorado Blu Skies

What's a VCR?

My thoughts exactly. I just came across my 1080i D-VHS deck and it's collecting dust next to my old VCR.

Burn the tapes to DVD and be done with the thing.

[saxwork]

Folks! I work in pro video. DO NOT TRASH YOUR VCRS! Yes, they are no longer the choice for watching or recording home entertainment and are not far from becoming a museum exhibit. But to this day, I still find a need for a decent VHS deck to access VHS archives. So much content has been recorded on VHS over the past 20 years that there will be a scenario in the future that you are going to need to access the deck again. It should also be noted that recordable DVD-Rs have a failure rate and if you trash all those VHS home videos of your kids growing up because you transferred them to a highly compressed mpeg-2 DVD-R you are going to kick your self in the rear end. Consider your VHS transfers to DVD-R as merely a back-up and an easy way to access your VHS archive… NOT A COMPLETE REPLACEMENT. Once you go past 60 minutes of video in Standard Definition mpeg-2, the compression kicks in and the bit rates drop considerably. If you insist on dumping VHS, transfer your videos to an external hard drive and keep your VHS files in full resolution Quicktime movies as your long term archive.

Advice from a pro.

[bageleaterkkjji]

just hook it up to your bravia and watch it

[cawgijoe]

We haven't used a VCR for watching movies or recording anything in two years since I bought a Pioneer DVD recorder with internal Hard Drive.

The Pioneer is used daily on the upstairs 32" Vizio. We have a Directv HR20 DVR on the downstairs Sony set.

I have been slowly copying camcorder S-VHS tapes to DVD.

The VHS tapes we have are no longer used and neither are the VHS machines.

[eva-01]

I've got a whole bunch of video tapes and cassette tapes that haven't been used in ages, i'd suggest buring them to dvd and then recycling them like i did.

Or if you like tinkering, video tape cases make pretty good hard drive enclosures, just drill four holes and hook it up to your pc with a usb to ide/sata cable

[Caligula]

u can say... ahem, my beautiful precious wife, it was an accident and i spilled coke over the vcr. IT Broke and here my kisses!

[Go Blu]

The transfer quality should be the same only in digital form.

Technically that should reamain constant becasue it will no longer degrade with each play.
Then you can get rid of all the old tapes taking up tons of space.

When the means to transfer VHS to Blu-ray 50GB Disc comes you can fit a ton of movie transfers to a single disc.

[blukrank]

I still have 2 VCR's and I still use them.I have a whole Libary of Doctor Who tapes that I still watch. I have a libary of old wrestling tapes too.But must of my wrestling tapes I have burned onto blank DVD's.Could do it to Doctor Who but what's the point The BBC has been releasing Doctor Who DVD's for a while.