When my children were young, my parents bought a video recorder... Before long they gave it to us, so that we could send them pictures of their growing grandkids...
They were happy when a VHS tape replaced my weekly letter to them.
All these years later, I have LOTS of VHS tapes I'd like to digitize, so that my kids could see themselves in action in their younger years. (And so that my grandkids can see their dad when he was a toddler.) But how? And when?!
I recently discovered that my son's public library has a digital transfer lab...
So we headed over to check it out.
Their "tech" person was very helpful...
If I figure out how to use it, I may keep busy transferring many childhood years on VHS tape to more accessible digital format.
Recently I took the first step: I copied one VHS tape onto one DVD. It took over two hours as I watched it copy. (The next step is to transfer the video from DVD to USB... That may go faster. - I hope!)
Multiply this by a dozen more VHS home videos, possibly two hours each... It will take a while.
My new adventure in photography - learning to digitally transfer these videos - as I revisit family history!!
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