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9:54am on Sunday, 12th July, 2020:
Anecdote
We (well, more specifically, my wife) spent much of yesterday afternoon figuring out how to use our old VHS player to transform VHS tapes into digital form. We succeeded, too: amazingly, there's a hard drive in theVHS machine for recording from the TV, so merely by playing the tape and recording what the TV was showing, the deed was done.
As for how to get the digital version off the hard drive, well there's a DVD recorder in the same unit. We merely have to use the transfer functionality to copy the digital version from the hard drive to the DVD. This, we did.
Unfortunately, the resulting DVD is unreadable by any DVD-reading device in the house. This includes the one that recorded it. We might be able to get the file off the hard drive using cables and a laptop, but my wife won't allow any adjustment to the cables whatsoever: it took her a day to set them all up just right. We have four units connected to the TV, and not only do the cables have to go from the correct socket to the correct socket in the correct unit, they have to be connected in the correct order with the correct units switched on or off at the time.
The DVD does look to have been written to; perhaps I shouldn't have formatted it on my PC first.
You are therefore spared screenshots of me in 1993 for a while longer.
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