Video Asylum

Posted by Lasermeister (A) on July 05, 2002 at 12:37:12

In Reply to: What if I convert VHSs to DVD-R/RW posted by monu on July 04, 2002 at 03:22:01:

No, this will not look any better than the originals--garbage in, garbage out. Generally, if you copy something, it will always look worse than the original. If you copy a VHS tape to DVD, all you will be doing is encoding the low resolution, fuzzy, noisy VHS signal into digital, plus adding some MPEG-2 encoding artifacts. It may be more convenient to use, but your quality is going to be limited by the resolution of your source.

Todd