To be honest, these additional features are also available for free in packages like Windows Live Movie Maker, but at least this way you don’t have to process your video through a second application before coming up with the finished article. You also get the opportunity to work with your video to add titles and credits, cool transitions between scenes, and effects to the video itself such as sepia and blurring. Not only can you record to a DVD or BluRay disk, you can also record to a WMV or MPEG file on your computers hard disk. More adventurous users can use the advanced mode, which allows you much greater freedom in setting up your source and recording its content.

To the rear of it you’ll find RCA composite connections, an S-Video connection and the USB connector for connecting to your Windows PC. The box itself is quite small, fitting easily in the palm of your hand. The VHS to DVD 7.0 Deluxe kit takes the form of an interface box to connect your old playback devices to your computer, and some software to help you record and manipulate the media itself. In truth, if you want to keep a grip on the contents of your old analogue devices, you’ve got to find a way to digitise them, and that’s what Honestech aim to do with VHS to DVD 7.0 Deluxe.

As anyone that uses these archaic forms of media knows, they tend to wear out from general use, and they’re also far more susceptible to physical damage than any form of modern media. We had VHS and Betamax tapes, vinyl LPs and TDK D90′s. The rest of us can remember a time when video and audio were sold to us in ANALOGUE formats (*gasps*). CD’s and DVD’s have always been sold in shops, as far as they’re concerned. Anyone under 25 will struggle to remember media being sold on anything other than digital media.

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