Hiya, pretty much the title. I have a dozen tapes I want to backup before age takes its toll. My basic idea after watching some videos online is to buy a hardware based upscaler that can interface with my vcr then throw that signal to a video capture card and record on my computer. I’ll go with name brands to avoid problems but is that really the best method? I want to avoid sending them to a service since it will cost more than just buying the hardware in the first place and I got time to kill.
Big bag. —> Dumpster. There, transferred.
For data, usb composite or svideo input capture. About $50 bucks. Connect to a VCR, start recording the stream, and hit play.
This is what I did. I archived about 200 hours of home videos for my mom and grandmother. I tried to do it for my mother in law but her tapes had been stored improperly and they all crumbled as soon as I put the cassettes in the player.