Re my recent post about video to dvd transfer - the correction is this: I should not mention specific brands and stores and will avoid that in the future. An online search will show a variety of devices and places to purchase them. They look like VCR's but have side by side player/recorders for VHS on one side and DVD on the other. You can transfer from VHS to DVD and vice versa should you choose to. The machine can also be your everyday player for vhs and dvd movies. The additional information is this - I transferred my first video to dvd and now wanted to make copies to pass along to family members. The more copies I pass around to remote sites (away from my house, the better I feel that I've helped preserve family history). The vcr-dvd machine is fine for the initial copy from vhs to dvd but cannot make a copy from a dvd to a dvd. All my pcs have cd reader/writers but no dvd 'burner'. To 'burn' a copy is to make a copy of one dvd to another. So off to the (online) store I went and bought and external dvd burner (less than $100 as of Dec. 2006). You can buy a pc with a dvd drive/burner built in and some of you reading this may already have that. Don't mistake a dvd player with a dvd burner (recorder). The way they work is to copy the dvd contents to your pc memory. When that is done, remove the dvd just copied to pc memory and put in a blank formatted dvd. Next copy from pc memory to the blank dvd. The dvd burner will come with software that guides you step by step through the process of formatting a blank dvd and then copying to it. This is not something to try with an older pc with limited RAM (memory). It takes a great deal of memory and even with my two year old laptop, everything else crawled to a near stop while the dvd was copying. One nice thing about copying to dvd is that it is done faster than 'real time'. If you want to transfer 45 minutes from VHS to DVD it will take you 45 minutes. To copy from DVD to DVD will take a fraction of that time (half or even just a third of the time). This is because you've already done the 'heavy lifting' of going from analog to digital. The bits and bytes of digital can be hurried along with no loss of picture quality. Note that a dvd burner will not play dvds for viewing - it simply makes copies from one dvd to another by loading contents into pc memory then drawing that back out to be written on a blank dvd. Hope this helps people who might be interested in moving their old format tapes to the next generation (digital) format. You don't see VCR's advertised today any more than you would an old 8mm film projector. To me that is one clue that it's time to make the effort to convert the random tape and structured interviews that I have from as long as 21 years ago. Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland _________________________________________________________________ Get Hilary Duff’s homepage with her photos, music, and more. http://celebrities.live.com

Thanks Russ for clearing that up, will have to hop to it so I can do the same. First thing then is to see if my dvd/vhs will do that or if I need another machine to do it. Thanks for the answers, they have been very helpful. Vicki in WNY researching these from NY and PA mostly: Arwin, Baker, Barrett, Brokaw, Brandow, Butler,Carnes, Crowe, Dean, Ferris, Golden, Havens, Hendershott, Hoxter, Huber, Isaman, Jenks (all variations), Kelleher, Knapp, Koons, Lundrigan, Makeley, McDermott, Mehlenbacher, Merritt, Neu, Northrup, O'Connor, Osincup, Patterson, Powers, Quick, Rahmlow, Robertson, Robinson, Root, Ryan, Slaughter, Stocum, Wade, White, Wilcox, Wright, Van Oxx (Oxx), Vanbenschoter, Yeckley, Young, Zimmerman. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 2:26 PM Subject: [NYJEFFER] Video to DVD a correction and an addition Re my recent post about video to dvd transfer - the correction is this: I should not mention specific brands and stores and will avoid that in the future. An online search will show a variety of devices and places to purchase them. They look like VCR's but have side by side player/recorders for VHS on one side and DVD on the other. You can transfer from VHS to DVD and vice versa should you choose to. The machine can also be your everyday player for vhs and dvd movies. The additional information is this - I transferred my first video to dvd and now wanted to make copies to pass along to family members. The more copies I pass around to remote sites (away from my house, the better I feel that I've helped preserve family history). The vcr-dvd machine is fine for the initial copy from vhs to dvd but cannot make a copy from a dvd to a dvd. All my pcs have cd reader/writers but no dvd 'burner'. To 'burn' a copy is to make a copy of one dvd to another. So off to the (online) store I went and bought and external dvd burner (less than $100 as of Dec. 2006). You can buy a pc with a dvd drive/burner built in and some of you reading this may already have that. Don't mistake a dvd player with a dvd burner (recorder). The way they work is to copy the dvd contents to your pc memory. When that is done, remove the dvd just copied to pc memory and put in a blank formatted dvd. Next copy from pc memory to the blank dvd. The dvd burner will come with software that guides you step by step through the process of formatting a blank dvd and then copying to it. This is not something to try with an older pc with limited RAM (memory). It takes a great deal of memory and even with my two year old laptop, everything else crawled to a near stop while the dvd was copying. One nice thing about copying to dvd is that it is done faster than 'real time'. If you want to transfer 45 minutes from VHS to DVD it will take you 45 minutes. To copy from DVD to DVD will take a fraction of that time (half or even just a third of the time). This is because you've already done the 'heavy lifting' of going from analog to digital. The bits and bytes of digital can be hurried along with no loss of picture quality. Note that a dvd burner will not play dvds for viewing - it simply makes copies from one dvd to another by loading contents into pc memory then drawing that back out to be written on a blank dvd. Hope this helps people who might be interested in moving their old format tapes to the next generation (digital) format. You don't see VCR's advertised today any more than you would an old 8mm film projector. To me that is one clue that it's time to make the effort to convert the random tape and structured interviews that I have from as long as 21 years ago. Russ Sprague Kensington, Maryland _________________________________________________________________ Get Hilary Duff’s homepage with her photos, music, and more. http://celebrities.live.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.