Posted by Alf. van der Weg on 01/27/06 02:58

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:37:07 -0500, Irulan wrote:


> "Alf. van der Weg" <a.vdw@kamphuis.net> wrote in message
> news:drbvaq012q9@news2.newsguy.com...
>> I'm trying to copy my old VHS tapes to DVDs, but a lot of them give bad
>> copies.
>>
>> I bought a Toshiba DR-4 DVD recorder, maybe it's just not good enough.
>> But some of the tapes copy pretty well and some have really crappy
>> pictures with flickering and bad color.
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or do I need a better recorder, or what?
>
> It all depends on how good the quality of your VHS tapes are. You know,
> crap in, crap out. If the tapes themselves are bad quality putting them
> on disc will not improve them at all.


I expect to get the same (or nearly the same) quality in the recording as
in the original.

The problem is that some tapes that play very cleanly make good DVD
copies, some don't.

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