Is this advisable?

[busterw]

I've got a friend that has a few VHS tapes recored in SLP mode that have 6 hours of video per tape and wants each tape on DVD. Is there a reason to not just dump this to the HDD of my e80 and burn to dvd in LP mode or will quality be enhanced at all by splitting them in 2 hour lengths per dvd and burning in SP mode? My understanding is since it was originally recorded on the tape in SLP, that I can't get better than LP so there's no reason not to just put all of each 6 hour tape on one dvd.

Please give me your thoughts.

Thanks!

[donpedro]

Quality of recording is very subjective thing. Best advice is..... "Try both aproaches and see what is best for you (or your friend)."

In a mean time.... I would record anything longer than 2h (max 2.5) on standalone DVD Recorder. But that is just my subjective opinion and somebody else might be satisfied with 6h quality.

[Gazorgan]

You can capture in 1/2 D1 resolution. This is typically good for 4 hours of DVD. However, since the tapes are SLP (15 fps, right?) the quality is going to be mediocre at best. You can probably do a little filter and squaeeze the bitrate down aand not notice. This will give you 6 hours on the DVD.

Another solution is to do them in VCD-DVD. This is good for 8+ hours and you won't be able to tell them apart from the original SLP VHS.