VCR/dvd recorder deals/ recomendations

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I'm looking to archive a bunch of my familys old vhs home movies and am looking for a deal on one. Also are there combos that allow you to speed up the copying process?
 
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You really don't need a combo recorder, I would save yourself some money and just buy the DVD recorder and plug your VCR into it. I have a nice Panasonic DVD recorder that I got for $225 from Circuit City that works great. I forget the model number of it, but they should have it at any Circuit City store.
 
[quote name='ZForce']You really don't need a combo recorder, I would save yourself some money and just buy the DVD recorder and plug your VCR into it. I have a nice Panasonic DVD recorder that I got for $225 from Circuit City that works great. I forget the model number of it, but they should have it at any Circuit City store.[/QUOTE]

yeah I'm more curious if theres a combo with 2x+ dubbing, I have too many home videos and too little time to copy them
 
To my knowledge there aren't and if there were, they'd probably be too expensive anyway. I bought my recorder to do the same exact thing as you, copy old videos and stuff to DVD, and I have a ton as well.
 
[quote name='ZForce']To my knowledge there aren't and if there were, they'd probably be too expensive anyway. I bought my recorder to do the same exact thing as you, copy old videos and stuff to DVD, and I have a ton as well.[/QUOTE]

Its good to know im not alone
 
I haven't found one that will do that (didn't look above 500$). It seems there may be some models with HDDs in them that may make it a little less painful (record VHS -> HDD and then move to DVD w/ high-speed; only if you want to combine multiple tapes to one DVD). I really haven't found anything that can take full information from tape media, run it at high speed, and have any type of quality output. Even my MiniDV transfers at real time and prevents me from moving a lot from MiniDV cassette to DVD+R. It's just too time consuming. I'm sure there are commercial models out there that will probably do what you need, but who has that $$$ to burn. Maybe I'm wrong and something is out there... :)
 
Buy.com has one HELL of a deal on the Panasonic DMR-E95HS DVD Recorder with 160GB Hard Drive for $350 and free shipping. If you are going to be recording VHS tapes I highly recommend a unit with a hard drive for the editing features. This one also has an IEEE 1394 input for digital video cameras! Mine just came today and it is sweet! Just go to their site and search for "E95HS", I can never get their links to work.
 
I bought my Sanyo DVD recorder for $169.00 at WalMart and I love it. It has component out,s-video in/out, coax and fiber optic audio out. I have yet to make a disc that wouldn't play in all my DVD players and my PS2. I make a lot of recordings from PPV and I always get great results.
 
I'm semi-looking for a dvd/vhs combo myself simply to replace my existing DVD player and VCR with a single unit.. I don't necessarily need a harddrive. I'd prefer something that had region and macrovision hacks.. any suggestions?
 
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