I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know what to do with them

Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by pjc50 on Friday September 27, 2024 @05:35AM (#41668106)

Oh, there's loads of those. For some reason I've seen the best results with a composite->HDMI upscaler followed by HDMI capture. Composite-only capture devices seem to be flaky.

The whole point of VHS-Decode is to bypass as much of the VCR's output circuitry as possible; capture from the read heads and apply modern digital reconstruction from there.

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Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by actionfromafar on Friday September 27, 2024 @06:48AM (#41668708)

Have the same experience. Also the composite to SD card recorders are supposedly quite good. But nothing beats tapping a VCR into vhsdecode and the soldering looks quite simple. Even cheap VCRs work fine for this. I will find time for it at some point...

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Re:I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and I don't know w... by throwaway48476 on Friday September 27, 2024 @09:54AM (#41670514)

VCRs are just ancient enough that soldering is easy.

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