thinkin of having vhs, and vhsc tapes put onto dvd by someone.

scottyboy76

I just watched the imemories promotional vid online but no idea what it would cost or how dependable they are.

I was watching some vhsc tapes in a vhs player using a 20 dollar radio shack converter, that looks like a vhs tape and you just put the smaller vhsc tape into it.

It chewed a tape up, thank god it was not one of the few with deb in it, but it scared me enough that i will now entrust these and some old 8mm home movies i had transferred decades ago to vhs to someone.

One attractive feature with imemories is i can access them online.

Any experience with these types of precious memories would be most welcome.

scott and deb

oldmodman

I do this service for people all the time. But I use a pretty expensive, now obsolete Sony Industrial S-VHS deck. The SVO5800
It has manual tracking, outputs (XLR) for both linear and AFM audio channels and a manual, fully adjustable TBC.
Then I feed the signal into a consumer Panasonic DVD recorder which I program with the run time of the tape I am coming from so that the density packing on the DVD is the minimum possible to record the entire tape (one only).
And I charge a flat ten dollars per tape, regardless of length, including blank DVD.
Mu onl;y condition is that the tapes were recording at the 2 hour speed. Not the terrible four or six hour speeds. My S-VHS machine is for 2 hour speed only. i can transfer slow speed recorded tapes but the quality will really suck.

TNHNDYMAN

Scott-

I think modman would be a great asset to have do this for you. Maybe send one of your not most precious tapes first and get his advice for packing to make sure it would arrive in LA safe and then review the results. If satisfied you could make arrangements to have the rest of your collection done.

To oldmodman- not trying to speak for Scotty, but I think if you talk to him via pm or email that some of his tapes may be recorded in the less quality settings as so many of us did back in the day. The end goal is not the best quality from a technical spec as much as more of an archival purpose to protect and allow him to enjoy the memories of his late wife with current technology via dvd player or computer playback vs. the possiblility of an older VHS machine destroying a tape that can't be replaced....

scottyboy76

I quit checking this thread, did not mean to ignore these responses.

Im about to pm oldmod.