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[Poison-Ivy]

Two questions I need help on pls:

1) Wthere can i take a shop bought VHS video to be put onto a DVD, how much is it roughly.

2) Can this then be put onto a CD for me to play in the car?

Its an eighties group in concert that I absolutely loveeeee and not been able to buy on DVD x

[fairkatrina]

you can buy dvd / video recorder players that will convert vhs to dvd at home. I don't think a shop will do this for you because it's copyright infringement. To put it on a cd, copy to dvd and then use a computer to lift the sound off it, and burn to disc.

[Ethel]

If you've got a video plaer then any dvd recorder that hooks up to your tv will do it easily.

They are quite cheap now.

[Ethel]

Or you can send it to me and I'll do it.

[Poison-Ivy]

Thanks v much fairkatrina

Not sure I can go to the expense of buying another DVD player just to do that but nevermind.

[Poison-Ivy]

Hi Ethel,

My daughters the only one now with a video but its one of those built into the telly jobs. Also its started to "chew up" the tapes. Could it still be done?

Also unfortunately i'm not that technical..

If you serious.. might have to take you up on your offer!

[Ethel]

I really wouldn't risk a tape in that video machine.

If you want me to do it, email me:

[email protected]

[Poison-Ivy]

Thanks Ethel, I would really appreciate it...

I'll make note of your email and contact you next week, i'm working away (again) till at least Thursday so will be after that.

Thanks again.

[Buenchico]

It looks like Ethel may have solved your problem but I'll just point out that it's highly unlikely that you'll find any commercial service transferring shop-bought videos to DVD. It's illegal to make an unauthorised copy of any copyright material, even if it's for you own use. Of course thousands of people copy videos for themselves and for others, without the copyright owners knowing or caring about it, but any shop or online business which advertised such a service would soon find themselves in trouble. (A shop in Ipswich used to advertise that they'd transfer customers' vinyl records to CD. The Federation Against Copyright Theft soon put a stop to that).

Ethel is one of AB's most distinguished and respected contributors, so I'm sure that his/her offer is absolutely genuine and you can have every confidence that he/she will do a good job. (The gender confusion is because I've seen it suggested that Ethel is actually a fella'. So I'm not too sure whether I should use male or female pronouns!).

Chris

[Poison-Ivy]

Thanks for that.. I trusted Ethel anyway thats not a problem.

He or she gonna laugh their head off when they see what group it is!

[Myriad2112]

Oh no, not the Federation Against Copyright Theft?
We all better stop doing it right away or the'll get cross.

[dawndevil]

There are shops that convert video to DVD try searching the internet for them if you haven't got Ethel to do it already