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I have an old early-911 tune-up VHS tape (PAL) that I acquired from the States many years ago. Its by Evergreen Video Productions of Grand Junction Colorado, who seem to be long gone. I was thinking that it might be possible to upload this to Youtube. I think I'm correct in saying that this is still protected by copyright laws, to the tune of at least 70 years from its production date (unknown), but I dont think there is anyone likely to complain and worse case scenario seems to be a request to remove it from Youtube...

That said, if anyone on here has the ability and motivation enough to convert my VHS tape to a Youtube video for our members to watch, please PM me...

Did anyone ever do this Dean ?

Hi Peter, no, no takers....

I’ve got an old VHS machine in the loft. I’m willing to see what I can get out of it, but no promises. Never tried but am thinking play on VHS, record to DVD then rip DVD, or is there an easier way ?

I think the modern way to do it is take the RCA outputs (or SCART to RCA first if necessary), digitise using a dedicated RCA-to-USB video grabber (£30-40). I think this is how people convert their old family VHS recordings to .mp4. I don't even know whether it is worth the time and money. I think our VHS player was used as a post box by the kids - now that we have talked about it, I might see if I can get it to play, and see if it might be worth capturing digitally... I'm equally happy to post it to you if you're interested in finding out....

Good point - think I might have one in the loft, if I can find it. IIRC, I bought it to rip our old VHS tapes, but never quite got around to it.

Training Day Skippers to sail again this weekend, but I'll look next week.

I needed to convert some old tapes to this new fangled digital malarkey, so now have things sorted.

I'll message you Dean

Thanks to Peter for converting the VHS tape to mp4 format. Its VHS quality of course

The video is now on Youtube, link below.

https://youtu.be/JyNWjBf4cvs