VHS to digital?

[brettallica]

Originally Posted by John72953

That's a really good option. I suppose it depends on how much you have to transfer..maybe using a service is the better option. Remember this though as I'm sure you know......MEMORIES ARE PRICELESS!

John

Yeah, using a service is a nice idea, especially if you're less than tech savvy. With a service there might also be some kind of guarantee of quality. I suppose they'd probably use "more professional" equipment, too. Then again, when you're going from VHS to DVD, I'm not really sure how much magic you can work regardless of the equipment you're using.

But yeah, memories are priceless. I remember when our family was just starting out (2002) we had a film still camera before we went digital later that year. There was less than a year's worth of images from our film camera before we went digital, so that was good. That was still a lot of scanning to get that into digital and permanent storage, though! Now all pictures are saved onto a hard drive (obviously), and I back up all those every so often onto high-quality discs. I've also got a digital camcorder, which is a really nice thing. We won't have to worry about VHS to digital transfer years from now. Also great is that even though it doesn't do HD, it does shoot in 16:9 ratio, which is cool for modern TVs, as we can shoot what we see, and when we watch the playback, there is no stretching or anything. I love that feature.