Is recording VHS -> HD DVD (Blu Ray) an option?
Answer Craig, There’s about four questions here. First: DVD-R (dash R) is about 90% compatible with set top DVD players, where DVD+R (plus R) is about 70% compatible. Notice I did not mention computers there? That’s because data is data – computers could care less. If your computer reads that format of DVD, your good to go. Nobody uses DVD-RAM (finding blanks is a pain.) -RW and +RW decrease playback guarantees a bit on /set top systems/ If you record your VHS tapes to a DVR…and then to a DVD, your (likely) doing two compressions (depending on the DVR/DVD and how it handles data.) One compression to the DVR format (Do you have any idea which compression format/codec it uses?) A second compression to DVD (which has to be the compressed standard of MPEG-2) No DVD format is friendly to transferring to a computer from DVD. It’s a series of highly compressed MPEG-2 files, and MPEG isn’t truly editable. Even if your DVR directly captures into MPEG2, it’ll require transcoding into a differe
