[afraidfortherepublic]

If you have any VHS tapes whose content you’ll want to watch in 20 years, transfer them now to digital formats. Don’t bother transferring material that is commercially available, because DVD’s an BD’s are much better. Just concentrate on tranferring home video.

Do you mean that I have to buy all my movies over again? Perhaps it is just easier to hang onto a VHS player.

[Paleo Conservative]

Do you mean that I have to buy all my movies over again? Perhaps it is just easier to hang onto a VHS player.

Just get a firewire video capture device for about $100 and transfer them to a hard drive. Then you can burn them to DVD's if you want. Use your best remaining VHS deck especially a VHS Hi-Fi or Super VHS for making the transfers, and remember to clean the heads and tape path first.

http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/easy-vhs-to-dvd/standard/overview.html

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=firewire+video+capture+&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=