VHS to computer save query

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2012-07-01 at 23:34 +0930, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all ,
> have just managed to get a Kaiser Baas DVD maker to work,( installed 
> mercurial)
> in Ubuntu 12.04 with TV Time, is there anyway I can save the played
> VHS from here and write to dvd? Some of my tapes are getting old.
> A friend tried to do it for me on Win7, (the kaiser baas device is his), 
> but it will only do a black and white
> in Win7, have colour in TV Time here on Ubuntu.
> Many thanks in advance for any help.
> take care
> Winton
> 
> 

This doesn't answer your question, but:-

If your tapes are of commercial origin, more and more old stuff is being
"digitally remastered" from the original tapes and is available through
e.g. Amazon. For instance, I'm sure I looked several times in the past
but could not find a of DVD "Dune" - the version with Patrick Stewart
and Sting, but it is now available. Also bought "Two Mules for Sister
Sara" and "Chato's Land". For the few quid they cost it's not worth
messing around trying to convert them yourself IMHO. Also, at long last,
got a copy of "Back and Fourth" by Lindisfarne on a 2012 remastered CD.

OTOH if they're tapes of personal material such as weddings and
holidays, yes you need to get them converted. Consider though, is it
worth the trouble of doing it yourself? Aren't there loads of specialist
services that are set up to do this for a fixed fee who probably have
higher spec. equipment than yours?

Personally I've gone through this loop converting a few vinyl LPs to CD,
including building my own RIAA pre-amp. They sound pretty damn good but
it takes so much time that I gave up and bought CD copies mostly for a
couple of quid apiece and used the time saved to go cycling, walking
etc.

Dave