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?

[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.

[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

[CptGreedle]

Originally Posted by Colorado Blu Skies

What's a VCR?

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/VCR

[alphapyro]

I had the exact opposite... my wife asked me when I was going to throw the VCR out... I told her that as long as it worked there's no harm in keeping it stashed in a closet... We do have VHS tapes still stashed in the end table, and the kiddo likes to watch movies we haven't purchased yet on DVD.


One day after the third world war, someone is going to give me a lot of money for my VCR, and then I will use that money to become ruler of the new world.


muahahaha

[supersix4]

put it in the microwave

[Marcusarilius]

Take it out to an empty field somwhere and do the office space copier dance on it. Don't forget the baseball bat.

[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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[mgonzo2u]

Take the VCR out to the desert and introduce it to Mr. Smith and Wesson.

[richteer]

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!

I did this recently; works like a charm and I am now VHS free with all my personal stuff on DVD.

But to answer the question posed in the thread's title: sell the VCR to a Duddite; I'm sure it'll be "good enough". :-)