Beginners Guides: Converting Videotape Into Video Files @ PCStats

Vikingod · Jan 18, 2007, 07:13 PM

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As you may have noticed, the VCR is a dying technology. DVD players are now equivalent in price, and their disks have practically crowded VHS tapes right off the shelves of your neighborhood video store. Give it another three years and you may be hard pressed to find a new release on tape. So what happens when your VCR finally breaks?

You'll replace it with a DVD player, if you haven't already. That's all well and good, but what about your library of home videos that you've accumulated? Sure the tapes will last for a good 10-20 years before the magnetically recorded data starts to disintegrate, but who says that there will be anything out there that can play them in twenty years…?

Jan 18, 2007, 07:13 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,187 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Beginners Guides: Converting Videotape Into Video Files @ PCStats Source: PCStats _________ As you may have noticed, the VCR is a dying technology. DVD players are now equivalent in price, and their disks have practically crowded VHS tapes right off the shelves of your neighborhood video store. Give it another three years and you may be hard pressed to find a new release on tape. So what happens when your VCR finally breaks? You'll replace it with a DVD player, if you haven't already. That's all well and good, but what about your library of home videos that you've accumulated? Sure the tapes will last for a good 10-20 years before the magnetically recorded data starts to disintegrate, but who says that there will be anything out there that can play them in twenty years…? __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*