I have a lot of Train movies on VHS tape including both real trains and modeling railroading.
Has anyone transfered their old VHS tapes to DVD's?
Do you know if a 300 minute DVD is adequate?
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I have done it at home on my DVD/VHS combo recorder with great results, you can even pause it and edit it...Most DVD's will record up to 6 hours, you really can't fill it because you need to leave some room for it to be finalized. that process allows the DVD to be played on other machines other than the one recorded on...I know Walgreens offers this service also, but they send it out to be done...
Marty
Hi Charlie, I have a stand alone DVD recorder but the VHS player isn't built in like Martin's. I've transferred many older VHS tapes to DVDs. However, one problem I encountered was when I was trying to put a lot of stuff on one DVD. What would happen is when I played these DVDs back I would get a lot of skipping and freezing pictures. It was so bad that I couldn't watch the movies. After doing some research on the internet I found out that it is recommended that you do not put more than 2hrs on any one DVD-R or DVD+R. Ever since I started staying under 2hrs per disc I haven't had any problems. My DVDs play on any player with no skipping or freezing. So if I had a 300 minute movie (5hrs) I would probably try to do it on 3 discs with approximately 1hr and 40 minutes on each disc.
Thank you Marty and Phil for the information.
That what I was trying to find out about these long play DVD's
I have a unit that takes a tape and DVD.
I can set up this unit to dub the VHS tape onto the DVD.
