DVR to capture VHS

[Caius]

[Attachment 66856 - Click to enlarge]

Is there any DVR model that serves to capture VHS? Would it be a good or bad idea?? @dellsam34

[sum_guy]

To me, not worth the expense of a DVR. You'd do far better with a good VHS capture to PC, then run it through avisynth or hybrid. I TIVO will run you $350-$500 usd. If you're worried about storing the captures, USB hard drives are cheap. If you want the best quality digital video, you will need to do the capture and deinteracing etc.

[Eric-jan]

You should check if it does NOT convert to 16:9 there are a lot of DVR or converters that do that, advantage is, it has a TBC effect you have to convert back to 4:3 ofcourse.
Don't know how much money you want to spent… most DVR's will have no TBC function, a Home Theatre, or DVD recorder as passthrough will help, and then an HDMI recorder,
cheap DVR's will capture straight to h264, for some more money you can record (HDMI recorder) to ProRes422LT,(Apple codec) or an AVID codec if you're on windows.
(Capturing with a PC will give you lots of problems, there are not a lot of good capture cards/devices for a pc, new stuff is trash, the few good ones can only be used on old operating systems, which in turn are slow because of that)
Time Base Correctors are rare and expensive, and were ony meant for pro equipment use, Try to find a Panasonic vcr/combo that has the "VHS fresh" feature, instead.
Onvif is a brand for security camera recorders,(the one in the picture has 4 channels) the signal of a vcr is not as stable as that of a camera.
these recorders capture directly in to a compressed format which makes it possible to directly store on a small HDD
capturing uncompressed needs fast and large drives, ProRes422LT/AVID is a frame by frame compression and is good enough for VHS, and lets you edit your footage in a good fashion.

[jwillis84]

Modern DVRs.. no.

Game capture cards.. no.

DVD/HDD recorders.. yes.