How to Convert VHS to DVD Format

!±8± How to Convert VHS to DVD Format

In the current scenario you can find that the VHS tapes and related technology like VCRs are slowly dying with the introduction of DVD and the digital media. Thus it has become a necessity to convert your favorite videos from these VHS tapes to DVDs. Converting VHS to DVDs becomes time consuming and also cost you a lot in case you want to convert multiple tapes. But it becomes important to transfer your favorite celebrations like wedding and birthday parties on to your DVDs. There are two ways to do this. Let us see how this can be achieved.

If you are trying to transfer old VHS that has recordings of popular movies or may be TV shows you need to buy costly hardware and waste time on recording the same. You can very well look for a website where you can download the movies for free onto your computer and then transfer them onto your DVDs. You can record these onto your DVDs with the help of Recorder which is a video device that is specially designed for the consumers to record anything onto DVD CDs.

The advantages of DVD recorder are that you can record anything from analog devices like the VHS players or old video cameras or maybe even a cable TV. They will also help you to record from various digital sources such as the camcorders or DVD players. When you record through a DVD recorder there is no need of a computer.

The disadvantages of a DVD recorder is that it will not allow to record copy protected tapes or DVDs. It also becomes difficult to integrate the recorder into a home audio video device due to lack of connection for input and output on cable boxes and VCRs. They also have limited editing capability and are also quite costly. They at times turn out to be quite complex and confusing. If you face problems with your VCR then a DVD recorder becomes a challenge to hook up and to proceed further.

In order to transfer your VHS into your DVD first of all connect the DVD recorder to your video source. You can make use of higher quality S-video cable, else make use of standard RCA dubbing cables for both the audio and video. Now connect from the VHS player output to your DVD recorder input. This will work much the same as a VCR. This Way of transferring from VHS to DVD recorder will give you a copy of your ape onto your DVD in real time. There may not be buttons and other settings but it is the fastest way of converting VHS to DVDs.