Anyone Have a DVD Recorder/VHS Combo?

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biglou

• Mar 10, 2006

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I'm wanting to transfer some old VHS tapes to DVD and don't want to pay a video house $10-20 each. Specifically, I'm looking at the cheaper Wal-Mart DVD recorders with built-in VHS that will dub over. Anyone have any experience with these, good or bad?

 

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• Mar 10, 2006

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My father in law has one and loves it.

 

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• Mar 10, 2006

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I have a Panasonic I got at Best Buy. It's not one of the bottom of the line, but it works well. My only complaint is the menus and remote are not very intuitive. I hate it when I have to go to the manual to find out how to do something that should be easy.

 

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• Mar 10, 2006

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How much would one of these set-ups cost? Sounds like a cool idea and a fairly easy way to get tapes converted to DVD.

 

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• Mar 10, 2006

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How about copyrighted tapes? Can they be crossed over as a backup copy on DVD? We have a DVD player in the camper but woukld really like to take some of our older movies that are on tape along in DVD form

 

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biglou

• Mar 10, 2006

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Can't dub or record anything with the copyright protection built into it, whether its within the unit, or by trying to record it using an external source (playing on another VCR/DVD player and trying to record it on this one). Not sure how it works, but it's all built in electronically/encoded into copyrighted tapes and dvd's.

The unit I'm looking at is under $200. One-button dubbing. Push "go" and let it run. I'm looking to record some 15-18 year old VHS tapes of shows I recorded off TV. I've got some serious nostalgia that can't be bought anywhere or replaced. One of my favorites was seeing "new" car commercials from 1987. OMG! :laugh:

 

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• Mar 10, 2006

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Considered going the PVR route with your PC? A vid card like the ATI all in wonder or what I personally use is a Haupaugge WinTV PVR USB2 model. I prefer that one since we don't have Tivo, it makes my pc a PVR for all the races and anything else I schedule. Will also allow you to capture video from many different sources including a VCR I believe although I have never tried it for that.

 

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• Mar 13, 2006

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biglou said:

I'm looking to record some 15-18 year old VHS tapes of shows I recorded off TV. I've got some serious nostalgia that can't be bought anywhere or replaced. One of my favorites was seeing "new" car commercials from 1987. OMG! :laugh:

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translation, "every episode of Bossum Buddies and the Smurfs"

 

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biglou

• Mar 13, 2006

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Actually, lots of Headbanger's Ball from mid 87-the very early 90's. I've got some great archival stuff. Back in the day, MTV used to play music... And a few other odds and ends. It was just so weird seeing the commercials again. Spuds McKenzie, The brand new Dodge Grand Caravan minivan (or whatever) for $10.5k, etc. Serious flashbacks!

 

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• Mar 13, 2006

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biglou said:

Actually, lots of Headbanger's Ball from mid 87-the very early 90's. I've got some great archival stuff. Back in the day, MTV used to play music... And a few other odds and ends. It was just so weird seeing the commercials again. Spuds McKenzie, The brand new Dodge Grand Caravan minivan (or whatever) for $10.5k, etc. Serious flashbacks!

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Ricky Ractman(sp?)
and the Whitesnake slip-up on the hood of the car !!! :yikes:

Crazy

 

crazy4nitro

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• Mar 13, 2006

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OMG...

Metallica "ONE" video...

I could go on...
I have like two whole tapes of HB but nowhere to be found... :bang: :bang:

Crazy

 

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• Mar 13, 2006

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I have a Toshiba dual VCR / multi-format DVD recorder (model D-VRW1) that I paid $250 for 6 months ago. Probably cheaper now. Works just fine. Do pay attention to the DVD formats (+/- R, +/-RW, RAM, etc.) that you can record on. I burned some video with my computer's DVD drive that most DVD players will not play, even on other computers. If I was going to buy one now I would buy one with a hard drive so I could edit more easily as I was burning my DVD's. Check the format that your DVD player plays, though.