BoxRec

My new years resolution is to transfer all my stuff onto DVD, its gonna take me a long time, but I am starting off with the amateur stuff, the 1st 1 was 1991 NABC semi finals in Aldershot,
a few names
M Gillespie v R Jeffries
D Starie v A Lowe
W Alexander v P Carr Carr KOing Wayne

1991 NABC Finals
P Black v D Pithie
N Hamed v D Adams
R Evatt v D Dugan
A Temple v R Jeffrey
S Roberts v m Hallimond
S Bendall v P Carr
J Branch v D Keenor

happy memories!!

ERIC GUY wrote:My new years resolution is to transfer all my stuff onto DVD, its gonna take me a long time, but I am starting off with the amateur stuff, the 1st 1 was 1991 NABC semi finals in Aldershot,
a few names
M Gillespie v R Jeffries
D Starie v A Lowe
W Alexander v P Carr Carr KOing Wayne

1991 NABC Finals
P Black v D Pithie
N Hamed v D Adams
R Evatt v D Dugan
A Temple v R Jeffrey
S Roberts v m Hallimond
S Bendall v P Carr
J Branch v D Keenor

happy memories!!

I need to do the same!

I also want to do the same. I went to a shop which provides such a service, but I was quoted a ridiculous price of like £30 per tape. I have like 12 tapes! The reason for the high price is that converting VHS to DVD takes a lot of time!

Rocky Balboa wrote:I also want to do the same. I went to a shop which provides such a service, but I was quoted a ridiculous price of like £30 per tape. I have like 12 tapes! The reason for the high price is that converting VHS to DVD takes a lot of time!

Thats ridiculous money. It would be worth your money to buy a DVD/VHS combination machine with a recording option - very easy to transfer - my mate let me transfer any of my old matches I had on VHS and it worked a treat. They are not overly priced - my mate bought his on sale from Harvey Norman for €175. Be cheaper than transferring 12 tapes at £30 a pop anyway.

I have 2 Toshiba Combi recorders, SPECS ARE ..DVD, 160gb Hard Drive, and DVD recorder, £140

I'm going for the cheap version, its called Easy Cap, about tenner from ebay.

I'll let you know if it works. I only have about 100 videos to do, so didn't want to pay for anything expensive.


http://easycap.co.uk/

Rocky Balboa wrote:I also want to do the same. I went to a shop which provides such a service, but I was quoted a ridiculous price of like £30 per tape. I have like 12 tapes! The reason for the high price is that converting VHS to DVD takes a lot of time!

Oh dear i have over 100 3 and 4 hour tapes which i want to transfer

Rocky Balboa wrote:I also want to do the same. I went to a shop which provides such a service, but I was quoted a ridiculous price of like £30 per tape. I have like 12 tapes! The reason for the high price is that converting VHS to DVD takes a lot of time!

You can by a DVD recorder for £30 from Argos, then use a scart to hook it up to your VCR and record them onto some
DVD RW+ discs, around £7 for 10 of them, or less off the net.

DVD discs are about £12 for 50..you should only get 2 hours on a disc, otherwise you lose quality

ERIC GUY wrote:DVD discs are about £12 for 50..you should only get 2 hours on a disc, otherwise you lose quality

Stockists?
DD

I've been doing my vhs to dvd for
about 4 years now, had about a
thousand tapes to do, must have
200 or so to do.
I bought a combi player, vhs/ dvd
which has a dubbing mode on it.
Only trouble is i've done so much
stuff i've gone through 2 recorders
in the last 4 years.
Comet & Currys sell them for about
230 quid.

saad muhammad wrote:I've been doing my vhs to dvd for
about 4 years now, had about a
thousand tapes to do, must have
200 or so to do.
I bought a combi player, vhs/ dvd
which has a dubbing mode on it.
Only trouble is i've done so much
stuff i've gone through 2 recorders
in the last 4 years.
Comet & Currys sell them for about
230 quid.

I got a dvd recorder with built in dvd2tape functionality for 170 in the sony shop...was about 6 months ago. Works a treat, the one downside is no inbuilt memory.

And then add the good stuff to YouTube as a gift to other fans.

Here's something I converted from a 25 year old VHS tape

Bruno in the lead-up to the fight with Jumbo Cummings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBmyx3jpWo

Is Cummings back in prison?

Collins2000 wrote:And then add the good stuff to YouTube as a gift to other fans.

Here's something I converted from a 25 year old VHS tape

Bruno in the lead-up to the fight with Jumbo Cummings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBmyx3jpWo

thats a great clip, I just text frank to see it...

ERIC GUY wrote:DVD discs are about £12 for 50..you should only get 2 hours on a disc, otherwise you lose quality

I bought 50 Sony DVD-R discs for £6 from Tesco.

I have authoring software, so what I generally do is crunch the images down a little bit and then put a front menu on the thing, so you can skip to particular fights or go direct from the front menu to the relevant bit.

I generally use Pinnacle studio. It has a capture device which has inputs on it, so you just get a Scart>RGB lead and then play them in the studio software, recording them as you go.

It's a doddle to do and allows you to also add subtitles etc and export them into DVD, or files to upload onto the web or play in your iphone or PSP etc.

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/uk/Home/