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Hello all I saw this posted on the newsgroups and thought that it should be posted here. I am curious as to the responses since like this user I also am curious about the Panasonic DMR-HS2. So here it is......
First off hello to all. I am new to this but I have been recently thinking
about buying a dvd recorder. I think I have narrowed it down to the
Panasonic DMR-E30 or the DMR-HS2. More than likely I will go with the HS2
for the 40GB harddrive. Questions I have are:
Which mode or speed is best for archiving vhs tapes?
I have at the very least maybe over 200 vhs tapes that I would like to get
rid of and put all on dvd. Some of the movies on vhs are very old. As far
back as even 1979 or 1980 on up. Now most of my tapes have movies on them
that were recorded with SLP which is the slowest mode on a VCR. To my eye
this mode was not bad. Nevertheless since they are already what we would
call poor quality. Would it make sense to copy these tapes to dvd with a
modebetter than the 6 hour mode offered by the Panasonic dvd recorders? I
mean would it really change the video and make it better to look at?
I would also like to hear from anyone who has purchased the Panasonic dvd
recorders and find out how they like the machine and if anyone out there is
trying to do the same thing as me when it comes to archiving all these many
vhs tapes.
In closing I would like to say thanks and as a newbie these groups have been
very helpful. Please forgive the crossposting but I really wanted to get as
many responses as possible.
Thanks, BGV
First off hello to all. I am new to this but I have been recently thinking
about buying a dvd recorder. I think I have narrowed it down to the
Panasonic DMR-E30 or the DMR-HS2. More than likely I will go with the HS2
for the 40GB harddrive. Questions I have are:
Which mode or speed is best for archiving vhs tapes?
I have at the very least maybe over 200 vhs tapes that I would like to get
rid of and put all on dvd. Some of the movies on vhs are very old. As far
back as even 1979 or 1980 on up. Now most of my tapes have movies on them
that were recorded with SLP which is the slowest mode on a VCR. To my eye
this mode was not bad. Nevertheless since they are already what we would
call poor quality. Would it make sense to copy these tapes to dvd with a
modebetter than the 6 hour mode offered by the Panasonic dvd recorders? I
mean would it really change the video and make it better to look at?
I would also like to hear from anyone who has purchased the Panasonic dvd
recorders and find out how they like the machine and if anyone out there is
trying to do the same thing as me when it comes to archiving all these many
vhs tapes.
In closing I would like to say thanks and as a newbie these groups have been
very helpful. Please forgive the crossposting but I really wanted to get as
many responses as possible.
Thanks, BGV