VHS to DVD Conversion (Using DVD Recorder)

[Sh0wty]

First of All I Appreciate the help..

I have old Football games from the Early 80's on VHS. All i have is a VHS - DVD Recorder, and a DVDRW Drive on my Laptop. I have used the DVD recorder. Quality is decent on the DVD. I suppose my question is.. Is it possible with the DVD made out of the Recorder, if I can make the actual picture better using software and Re-Burn the DVD.

Just want to see if there is any software than may better quality..

Thanks for the help..

[lordsmurf]

No.

Use a good DVD recorder, use a good VCR. You can make the quality better than the VHS tape, but not in software. It needs to be done in hardware, before the transfer.

What DVD recorder are you using, in what mode?
What VCR are you using, what quality and recording mode is the VHS tape. Details, not something like "okay" or "good" or whatever.

[Sh0wty]

I use the GO Video VR3930 DVD Recorder

[lordsmurf]

What about the VCR?
What recording mode on the recorder?
What condition is the original tape?

We need details.

[trhouse]

I use the GO Video VR3930 DVD Recorder

It's a combo, but from the specs it's hard to tell if it can be used with external hardware processing like a TBC or color corrector like some combos.

http://www.govideo.com/?GV=VR3930

[Sh0wty]

I made one VHS - DVD

-Original Tape in Great Condition.
- DVD Came out Great. Actually looks better than the VHS.

Anything else I can do?

[SingSing]

Do the rest of your VHS to DVD conversion.

Don't throw your VHS away. They last longer than your burn DVD.

[lordsmurf]

They last longer than your burn DVD.

That's not actually true.

But keeping the VHS is a good idea, should you have the ability to improve your capture later on.

[TBoneit]

And the second reason for not throwing away the originals is if the DVD gets damaged. You cann pull the original and remake the DVD.

Third reason if they are commercial VHS and you transfer them and throw away the original you just lost any legal leg to stand on. As Well as reason two above. Same with CDs you can back them up & keep the copy in your car for example, but you can't copy them and keep the copy and sell the original.

Fourth reason Crap media. The Tape may outlast crap media. The tape may degrade and develop dropouts but still play, the tape may suffer damage. Wrinkles for example but still play OK before and after the wrinkle.

Tapes hate water and heat. DVDs hate scratches and cheap media. CDs are easy to damage. The design intent was make them protected against scratches on the bottom where the laser reads the data. Darn shame they didn't think that one little scratch on top or even writing with a ball point pen will damage them. BTW I have had Cheap silver top CDs go bad.

I saw one person that took a pen and wrote his name on top before lending to somone, you guessed it he trashed them. Take a junk disk, Write on top with a ball point pen. look underneath you'll see the dents on the data surface. This makes it hard for teh laser to focus.

DVDs they went back to the drawing board and put the data in the middle so it is protected top and bottom.

These are of course just opinions and are based on observations I've made over time.

[SCDVD]

And the second reason for not throwing away the originals is if the DVD gets damaged. You cann pull the original and remake the DVD.

Aside from the usual good advice about using good media etc., it's a good idea to make more than one DVD. Media is very inexpensive and the added security of having more than one copy is a good idea. You can even keep them in more than one place as an added precaution.

[biclipstudio]

Hi,
I use ION VCR 2 PC for transfer VHS to DVD. It's work good and fast.

[victoriabears]

if you are happy with what you are getting, spend your time on something else, you'll drive yourself nuts finding "perfection"

[lordsmurf]

Hi,
I use ION VCR 2 PC for transfer VHS to DVD. It's work good and fast.

Those things are terrible -- and I'm being kind.

[victoriabears]

I remember being a door to door salesman in London UK and seeing the TV picture quality people accepted, when a good attenna or some better cables would have improved it, so if the resulting quality is good enough for you, stick with it, I am somewhere between the vcr to dvd combo standard and spending hours capturing and encoding and filtering standard.