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Saturday, January 29, 2005
Record HD and Restore VHS - HM-DH40000U $300 There was a time in my life where I recorded most TV I liked on VHS, so I have a sizable collection of stuff I just don't watch anymore, but I don't want to throw away.
With old 8mm & Hi8 tapes, you could always put them in a Digital8 camera and shoot them out over Firewire to save them, and the results were great. Now I'm going to do the same with my VHS. These Digital VHS machines aren't too popular I guess because they're getting cheap. So now I can save all those hours of classic stuff in MPEG-2, and ditch the tapes finally. And it's all done internally, it'll come out over Firewire as well, ready to put straight onto DVD. I'd never moved much VHS to DVD because the solutions are usually pretty corny, some USB adapter connected to your old beat up VCR or something. This machine should let me rest easy that I've gotten the best I could out of the old tapes before I kiss them goodbye for good. After that, I can use it for the reason it was intended, recording HD broadcasts. I suppose I can buy the HD D-VHS versions of some movies too, maybe I'll have to do that. Looks like Galaxy Quest is available. Mainly, though, I want to save my old VHS stuff in 720P.
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