Portta VHS to Digital Converter, Video to Digital Recorder with Remote, Compatible with VHS, VCR, DVR, DVD, Hi8, Mini DV Players, Camcorder, Gaming Consoles (VHS/Tapes/DVD Player Not Included)

I always wanted to find a way to transfer my old VHS home movies to digital but hated the thought of sending them somewhere. I took a chance on this and THANK YOU! I also ordered a bunch of flash drives because I had read that it may not record to an external hard drive that doesn't have its own power source. I had bought a VHS player at goodwill for $20 but I wanted to check it with an old VHS tape so I bought one of those also for 50 cents, I hooked to the converter box and put in the movie I had bought and it played fine so I popped in a home movie from 1992! WOW I got to see my grandparents, parents and my brother who had all passed away, hearing their voices all most made me cry. One of the home movies I had taken, I had walked around the inside of my grandmas house, what great memories.I posted 6 movies to you tube and texted my cousins, they loved it and we are still texting each other about how much fun we had back in the day. I also found a VHS where I had recorded my fathers old slides, I got to see me when I was around 4, so 57 years ago. This was one of the best things I have ever purchased. Thank you again.* I did order an S-video cable today, just to see if the output from my VCR to the converter is any better, not a big deal but if it improves the video at all its worth the $10*OH before you start recording, read the instructions on removing the time stamp that will appear in the bottom right had corner of your video, its in the settings menu, you can see it on my picture I uploaded*Update, the S Video cable arrived but the VCR output for S Video is only for the DVD player part of it, oh well, they still look great!

Sweet!! After 20 years I’m finally able to put all of my old 8mm and hi8 videos on thumb drives and make digital copies for storage. This thing works like a charm. I read several unhappy reviews and so I did a little reading on Google before I purchased this device. Google recommended 3.0 or 3.1 name brand thumb drives for best results. So when I ordered this little gem I ordered a dozen San disc 3.0 16 gig thumb drives for a start and to see how everything was going to work. According to google you can fit roughly two hours of 8mm footage on about 2 to 4 gigs of space give or take a little. So I figured 3 or 4 two hour tapes per thumb drive. Then my hi8 tapes are going to require about 28 gigs for a two hour video so I’ll buy the 32 gigabyte thumb drives when I get started on those tapes. According to Google, the key is the high speed name brand thumb drives for best results. And it works perfectly as long as your camera still plays the tapes or you have some other way of playing the tapes on a device that connects to this little gem. I couldn’t be happier. I transferred a video of my grandpa telling me his story of how him and my grandma got married and the things that happened around that time. The video was made in 1992. The video was an hour and 13 minutes. An hour and 15 minutes after I started using this little device I was watching it on my 85” tv via the thumb drive and usb port. And I’m tech illiterate. So if I can get this gem to work, ANYONE can with a little reading and research and just simply following directions. It takes time. I have around 100 + hours of video and you have to sorta monitor this thing. Unless you just do one video per thumb drive. But I’m going to try to be a little more thrifty and squeeze as much as I can into each thumb drive. May later I’ll go back and do some editing. But that’s a review on its own. Getting all of this history stored on a device that can be viewed and preserved was the goal. Mission starting to be accomplished.

This is a fantastic product. It is easy to use, allows you to break up long vhs tapes into smaller, more interesting MP4 segments, has very good audio and video, and it is easy to set up and use.We had dozens of vhs & mini dvds & camcorder files of family events, and we're trying to digitize everything so we can get ride of the tapes and discs. The cost of paying someone to do it for us was out of the question because it requires so many hours.I did have a problem converting three of my tapes. I contacted the company by Email, and they got back to me within a few hours with a comprehensive answer that solved my problem--which was me: I wasn't following the directions properly.

This item records, but could not get the sound to come up on the SD card. Quality of recording was much like a VHS recording being transferred to a hard drive with no sound. Everything was easy to hook up, but it just did not work.FOLLOW UP: I was contacted by the company. After it was clear that this piece if equipment would not meet my needs, I was given a full refund. Clearly, this equipment was meant to be used to convert VHS or DVD files to Mp4. Good piece of archival equipment, but not intended to be used to record from a camera and keep the file. If you want to save your old video camera files, this is a useful tool.

Absolutely incredible device! Ran across this item on Amazon purely by chance. What a find! We had VHS camcorder videos from over 34 years ago with our young kids back in our Alaska days. Had not seen them since and figured we never would. Along comes this gadget. Wow! Wow! Super easy and straight forward to use. My biggest problem was getting one of several old VCR’s to work, but when I did, it blew my mind! Started copying the videos to USB thumb drives in mp4 format. Smile to then take to computer and transfer to HDD or make more thumb drive copies. Some of the videos brought a tear to my eye! Thank you for a real treasure!Could not be happier with this purchase and proud to give my highest recommendation!

This device is genius! It is so easy to use. I transferred all of my VHS home videos onto a flash drive which can be plugged into a usb port and watched on tvs, computers, other devices compatible with a USB port. Definitely recommend over sending tapes away to be copied and risk losing them.