VHS->DVD

[Ian Malone]

On 14 October 2010 11:29, Tod Thomas <fr33zone at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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?
>
>

You are talking about video cassettes? A player and some video capture
hardware would seem to be a requirement.

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imalone