VHS->DVD

[Tod Thomas]

  I remember reading some time ago that VHS was a proprietary standard 
and without special equipment it was difficult to transfer it to other 
media.  I'm pretty sure I heard within the last couple of years that the 
VHS standard was retired, or its patent ran out, or something.  I 
expected someone would eventually pick up on that and develop an open 
source process for transferring old VHS content to DVD.  Is there 
something likes this?  Am I dreaming?


Thanks.