Does it work well?

[Scrounger]

I have about 2000 good old movies on videotape, good, clean (no commercials) copies from cable, so the quality is pretty good. Since VCRs are so old fashioned (I don't even have one anymore), I thought I'd like to transfer some of my real favorites to DVDs. Walmart has several models of combo DVD/VCR recorders, from around a $100 up to about $250. Emerson is one of the brand names, RCA is another. Anyone have any experience with them, any idea what I can expect?

[waksupi]

I have about 2000 good old movies on videotape, good, clean (no commercials) copies from cable, so the quality is pretty good. Since VCRs are so old fashioned (I don't even have one anymore), I thought I'd like to transfer some of my real favorites to DVDs. Walmart has several models of combo DVD/VCR recorders, from around a $100 up to about $250. Emerson is one of the brand names, RCA is another. Anyone have any experience with them, any idea what I can expect?

Scrounger, I don't have that many, but have been thinking the same thing. I believe I heard a Consumer Report on this, and they advised a Panasonic I believe, for around $195 bucks. You could probably find the CR report on line.
I've also been looking into the program to record my cassette tapes to the computer. I have a lot of bootleg stuff, lots of live recordings. I even have an old live recording from the early 1960's, a bluegrass tape of the Black Mountain Boys, before they became the Greatful Dead. Lotsa treasures hidden, that I would like to save.

[Bret4207]

The Dead did bluegrass before they went druggie??!! Now I know why I always liked thier tunes. I thought it was a character flaw all these years. There's still no excuse for Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult and crap like that ever being rercorded, or our modern so called "music". Rap is not music.

[waksupi]

The Dead did bluegrass before they went druggie??!! Now I know why I always liked thier tunes. I thought it was a character flaw all these years. There's still no excuse for Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult and crap like that ever being rercorded, or our modern so called "music". Rap is not music.

Brett, the Dead have always done bluegrass over the years. Garcia played with Old and In the Way, with Doc Watson, Vassar Clements, Bela Fleck, amoung others. Last year when I was in Canuckistan, I listened to a late night weekly program on the radio that was all Dead, and the majority of it was bluegrass, although with group members playing with other groups. They have some stuff I don't care for, but there is a strong old time country/bluegrass strain in much of it. I imagine the station still runs it, and it is on the internet about one AM my time. Search for Athabaskan University. I went to one of thier concerts that they played for about ten hours straight, and much of it was bluegrass based, although somewhat Newgrass, avant guard stuff.

By the way, I do like rap. Remember, Smoke, smoke, smoke that Cigarette? And some of the Jerry Reed stuff? Phil Harris? Tex Ritter did several "rap" songs way back when pants still stayed up on a persons' butt. I remember one where he and his buddy are riding the same horse, and want to change positions. But neither wanted to get off the horse to do it. Funny as hell, wish I could find a copy of it.

Scrounger, I wonder if we couldn't just get a plain ol' DVD recorder, and patch a cord from the VCR into it, and do the recording that way. Sounds like a money saver. It should be the same as recording a broadcast program. We're smart enough to put a piece of tape over that little cut out that makes it impossible to record those tapes, I'll bet.

[wills]

By the way, I do like rap. Remember, Smoke, smoke, smoke that Cigarette? And some of the Jerry Reed stuff? Phil Harris? Tex Ritter did several "rap" songs way back when pants still stayed up on a persons' butt. I remember one where he and his buddy are riding the same horse, and want to change positions. But neither wanted to get off the horse to do it. Funny as hell, wish I could find a copy of it.

Scrounger, I wonder if we couldn't just get a plain ol' DVD recorder, and patch a cord from the VCR into it, and do the recording that way. Sounds like a money saver. It should be the same as recording a broadcast program. We're smart enough to put a piece of tape over that little cut out that makes it impossible to record those tapes, I'll bet.

Red Solvine?

[Bret4207]

No way! Lets not even begin to put The Classics in with "rap".

[versifier]

Waksupi, I don't know about video, but you can get a free download for your cassettes called Audacity. I don't have the webedress handy, but I googled to find it. It works well with clear instructions written by someone for whom English isn't a second or fourth language. [smilie=w: