Most people won’t be impacted by these announcements since VHS doesn’t factor prominently in most people’s day to day viewing and for a vast number of people the VHS ship has long since sailed. But, there is a whole generation of people that may still have archival footage in VHS format. It is important to transfer these videos to another format before functional VCRs (or TVs with analog inputs) become impossible to find. Vidbox has created a product that converts analog video and audio signals into MPEG format and provides software to compress the footage into. Mp4 files or burn the captured video to DVD. Let’s see how well it works!Īfter the converter box is found the wizard asks for the recording time of the video. The transfer will occur in real time, so this is a useful feature if you plan to start the recording and let it continue unattended. We will see later that the recording can be stopped at any time by the user. This screen allows the input method to be selected.

S-video is a standard that separates the color data from the intensity data and should produce superior results (except for B&W, obviously). The unit comes with a composite video cable and this is what most VCR systems that cost less than about $350 new have as an output. Note that the converter box does not include a pass through so unless your video equipment supports broadcasting over multiple outputs the video preview in the screen below will be the only view of the video while you are recording.įrom this screen, you can choose the aspect and the sound recording level. The window cannot be resized so the video preview window is rather small.

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