Windows 10: Watching (and saving) a VHS tape via Windows Media Player

Hello

I am aiming to play a VHS tape through a Sony VCR. I can hear the tape playing and rewinding inside the VCR so that side of things is fine. The VCR connects correctly to a TV using a Scart lead and plays VHS tapes.



I am using the following cables: the scart leads plugs into L1 (output) on the VCR and the other end plugs into my analogue to digital converter, as follows:






The USB end plugs into my Windows 10 desktop PC tower. I am using a VIDBOX converter and, as far as I know, I have the correct drivers for it.

How may I view (and save) the VHS tape (a home movie so not copyrighted) in Windows Media Player (which I know nothing about), please, after pressing 'Play' on my VCR?

Thanks!

Steve

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How can I play a VHS tape and digitize it for storage on a Win10 PC?

Hi Russ,

There is a way to convert VHS tapes copy to digitized version, we recommend contacting your VHS tape player manufacturer to ask for a device that will connect the player to the computer. You may also need a software to record and save it to the computer.

Let us know if you have other questions.

 

VHS tapes

Does anyone still use VHS tapes? I've pretty much been using DVDs for at least the past 3 years of my life. I realized this today... the story goes like this:

A day or two ago, I watched Decoding the Exodus on the History channel. My family is relegious so I decided I would acquire this show and hand out copies to my family so they can watch it as well. I gave it to my mother, 2 of my 3 uncles (I should probably make a copy for my other uncle) and my grandmother. Out of all these people, guess who doesn't have a dvd player? Grandma. heh.

Since I've been using DVDs for so long, I didn't have any blank tapes, the only VHS tapes I have are 3 tapes of Red Dwarf that my dad made off of PBS, and a tape I found that my late grandfather made for me of The Predator. My mom didn't have any blank tapes either, niether did grandma. I went to wal-mart today to get some VHS tapes (I needed dvds and a can of compressed air anyway). I tried taping the DVD over to VHS on my dvd/vhs player, didn't work. I had to use the living room setup which has a dvd player and a VCR seperate and recorded it that way.

Long story short I was totally blown away by using these VHS tapes today. We've come so far in technology with the DVD. It took me an hour and a half to record Decoding the Exodus from a DVD to a VHS because a VHS cannot be burned, it HAS to be recorded real-time. It takes my about 5 minutes to burn the hour and a half movie in DVD format (came out to be around 2.62GB) with my computer's DVD burner and the Free Studio program, but the VHS had to be recorded in real-time, which took about an hour and a half. DVDs are so much more convienent; they can be burned, so they don't have to be recorded in real time. They hold more data than a VHS tape at VHS quality level, and at DVD quality level, anyone can easily tell the difference between a VHS and a DVD.

Now I think it kinda sucks that I can't record on my VHS/DVD player combo. It has a recording feature for the VHS player, but the only input it has is composite on the back and composite on the front. The only way I can record off a DVD with it is to use my PS2, but I'm using a component cable for it so I would have to fish out the composite cable for it and do it that way. It won't record from it's dvd player to it's vhs player. It doesn't have coaxial cable either, or I could pipe TV through it... can't record TV either. I'd have to do it on the VCR in the living room.

/very long story
So does anyone still use VHS tapes today?

 

VHS tapes

I have tons of VHS tapes and maybe one or two VHS players.*Smile Dont use them tho.