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| Thread ID: 92395 | 2008-08-08 22:44:00 | VCR outdated | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 695971 | 2008-08-08 22:44:00 | It does look as though VCRs are on their way out - and in fact it is already almost impossible to buy a new one. Now I have about 100 tapes I have made over the last umpteen years. I can convert them to DVD easily enough but of course only in real time. I doubt that there will be many I will want to save - a lot will just be scrapped, but I wonder if there is any sign yet of commercial operations offering a convert VCR to DVD service. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 695972 | 2008-08-08 22:49:00 | Plenty of new VCR's available in the shops, Try the warehouse if your desperate. Commercial operators have been offering VCR to DVD for a number of years, Going to cost a lot if you have more then a couple to do though, and I'd imagine they use the exact same hardware you can buy at any appliance store. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 695973 | 2008-08-08 22:50:00 | Here is a place in Dunedin www.convertit.co.nz |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 695974 | 2008-08-08 22:54:00 | It'd be cheaper doing it yourself, if you've got a tuner / capture card with video in | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 695975 | 2008-08-08 22:57:00 | Holy hells bells, For the prices listed you could buy a brand new DVD recorder, a brand new VCR and then hire someone to do all the conversion for you and still come out ahead. | Metla (12) | ||
| 695976 | 2008-08-09 00:39:00 | Buy yourself a DVD/Hard Drive recorder. You can connect your VCR up to that, record to the HD then burn to DVD. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 695977 | 2008-08-09 00:47:00 | Buy yourself a DVD/Hard Drive recorder. You can connect your VCR up to that, record to the HD then burn to DVD. :) That would be my suggestion,probably because it's what I have.:) |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 695978 | 2008-08-09 02:02:00 | It does look as though VCRs are on their way out - and in fact it is already almost impossible to buy a new one. Tom I read, at least a year ago, that after they had sold their last VCR, the large UK firm Tesco, would not buy any more. Yes, you can still buy a VCR here, but for how long? What I fail to understand is why, after having a VCR all these years (from 1980?) that will not only play but record tv programmes, anyone would buy a machine that only plays a DVD but does not record. Most peculiar, and yet it seems that more people are buying players rather than player/recoders. With VCRs on the wane, what will they do when their VCR breaks down and they can no longer get it fixed or buy a new one? If they only have a DVD player and wish to record they will have to purchase another machine.:illogical |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 695979 | 2008-08-09 02:19:00 | People buy players only because they cost $100 as apposed to $600 for a H/D recorder. They are coming down all the time,with time we will all have a H/D recorder |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 695980 | 2008-08-09 02:20:00 | I did a quick poll at work yesterday lunch time, I am the only owner of a VCR we have about 20 employees. 2 have HDD recorders the rest only have DVD players no one has a DVD recorder. It seems no one at my work wants to record TV programmes anymore apart from the 3 of us that can everyone else just gets DVD's from the shop to watch or from the library | gary67 (56) | ||
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