Shows how out of touch I am ... I've never heard of digital VHS. I just looked it up and found that D-VHS appears to be a HD-specific format, and that the recorders are breathtakingly expensive. I saw prices ranging from $700 to $1500.
That doesn't really solve the problem I want to solve, which is not recording new content, but playing the existing VHS tapes (home-copied and pre-recorded) that we already have. The majority of our movie collection is still on VHS, and while even many of the rarities (such as 633 Squadron (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057811/) and 55 Days at Peking (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056800/)) are now available on DVD, we can't afford to replace them all. (And even then, some of them -- 55 Days at Peking, for example -- appear to be available only for Region 2.)
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That doesn't really solve the problem I want to solve, which is not recording new content, but playing the existing VHS tapes (home-copied and pre-recorded) that we already have. The majority of our movie collection is still on VHS, and while even many of the rarities (such as 633 Squadron (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057811/) and 55 Days at Peking (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056800/)) are now available on DVD, we can't afford to replace them all. (And even then, some of them -- 55 Days at Peking, for example -- appear to be available only for Region 2.)