12-23-2008, 03:41 PM
What's a VHS?
Seriously, though, if you convert a lot of movies to DVD, ditto on Kraniac's "keep the originals" comment. DVDs will crap out on you at some point; have seen it happen already with some less-than-par video transfers done about 10 years back (wife's old karate school).
Best bet is this: transfer to Mac, edit onto a nice DVD for regular viewing, but shelf (per se) the VHS and keep the digital copy on your Mac (which is regularly backed up, right?).
Once the AppleTV Homebase® XServe™ comes out, you can upload it there and everyone you give access to it (worldwide) will be able to view it. Beauty, eh?
Seriously, though, if you convert a lot of movies to DVD, ditto on Kraniac's "keep the originals" comment. DVDs will crap out on you at some point; have seen it happen already with some less-than-par video transfers done about 10 years back (wife's old karate school).
Best bet is this: transfer to Mac, edit onto a nice DVD for regular viewing, but shelf (per se) the VHS and keep the digital copy on your Mac (which is regularly backed up, right?).
Once the AppleTV Homebase® XServe™ comes out, you can upload it there and everyone you give access to it (worldwide) will be able to view it. Beauty, eh?