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Q: I have many VHS and 8 mm camcorder tapes I want to convert to DVDs because holiday gifts. I would also like to edit them at some point. But for the sake of now I just penury to save them onto a DVD. How do I answer this? I have a PC that runs on Vista.

Do you suggest doing this yourself versus using an outward service? I have been reading about the Sony DVDirect MC5 (VRDMC5) DVD Recorder and the ADS Tech DVD Xpress DX2 Video Converter. Any thoughts on these?

Laura Brosten

A: Seems like you’re persuaded of the two main options: buying a conversion artifice or sending your film to a service provider for conversion.

As you apparently already understand, there are a number of products that justify you to convert analog videotapes to digital format so that they have power to be burned to DVDs. (I dress in’t make recommendations on especial products or service providers unless I’ve done a recent review of the product.)

And I’ve never had a bad experience with using purpose providers for conversions.

As for your more general question about doing conversions yourself rather than using an outside service, you should consider brace thing: how great number tapes you have to convert and in what plight much you find to one’s mind to learn new equipment and software.

The Sony device you cursory reference race-course for about $200. Most services charge about $20 to convert a VHS tape to DVD. So, if you’ve got further than 10 tapes, you may want to think about the economics of buying the gear.

If you’re a technophobe, of course, it may take quite a hardly any more tapes to talk you into the deal.

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So far I’ve found myself limited to downsizing either a single figurative expression or highlighting several images that happen to be filed next to one another in a single toothed.

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