I have an appointment tomorrow to talk with a guy about converting some VHS stuff I have to DVD. One tape has a few of K-Bug's birthday parties and it is so cute, I'm willing to ignore how I look.

The other tape is something my mom had converted from whatever the late 1930's/early 1940's filming standard was. It is the Coolidge Capers, home movies of my mom and her sister, plus my grandma and grandpa (I never met him). Most if it takes place is Sun Valley and is pretty cool stuff. But the music that is overlaid by whoever did the VHS conversion is HORRIBLE. Total synth hell. I'm not sure what I'd prefer...but I'm absolutely going to ask him to change the sound. I'm thinking something more evokotive of the time, not sure what though.

I have some VHS tapes I want to convert to digital, and when I was looking around it seemed cheaper to buy a unit and do it myself, even if I didn't eBay the converter when I was done. But I don't have any sound that needs replacing--just lots of capoeira sessions I want to keep forever and make myself miserable with.

From the preliminary talk I had with the guy, it is something like $10 a tape. I think I just have 2 to convert, so that is very do-able.

I have about 10, so I'm flinching.

Watching the VHS, my mom and her sister were just playing on incredibly tall slides. The kind you KNOW they tore out in the 70s. Oh, and now they are going on a sleigh ride with 4 beautify black beauties pulling the sleigh.

Aw, I wish I still had a VHS deck lying around, I'd digitize Buffista memories for free! But we got rid of all of them when we moved offices a few years back.

We got rid of all our VHS movies and I only had the home movies left and a couple of unidentified tapes. Well, 2 of the mystery tapes had Buffy episodes - shocker - and the other had some K-Bug adorableness. The old stuff, it looks like I have 3 copies. I'm really hoping they are dups and not 3 separate home movies.

I can do VHS to digital conversions - that is, I have what I believe to be the necessary equipment, I haven't actually done any. Anyone wants to leap at that opportunity, I will hook it all up and give it a try.

Sounds like you have a pretty good deal set up, though, Suzi. I wonder whatever happened to our old home movies - my grandfather had film from when my mom was a kid that would be fun to see again, and my dad probably has reels and a projector tucked away somewhere.

The guy says that digitizing from reels give better quality than from reels converted to VHS to digital. Unfortunately I don't have the original reels.

Fuck. Just locked myself out of the house.