Hiya, pretty much the title. I have a dozen tapes I want to backup before age takes its toll. My basic idea after watching some videos online is to buy a hardware based upscaler that can interface with my vcr then throw that signal to a video capture card and record on my computer. I’ll go with name brands to avoid problems but is that really the best method? I want to avoid sending them to a service since it will cost more than just buying the hardware in the first place and I got time to kill.

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    1 year ago

    Some name brands still just rebrand white label products. Look if the same form factor appears on Ebay or has been reviwed by a YouTuber. Most will internally deinterlace the video with a terrible algorithm.