Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. One of my favorite movie lines is from It's a Wonderful ...

Time stops for no one, and for no technology. There was a time when you probably preserved family memories by saving them to videotape, but videotape is now completely obsolete. If you’re like a lot ...

Many older-model camcorders use MiniDV tapes as their medium for recording video and audio. MiniDV, or Mini Digital Video, is an analog format that, like all analog formats, is susceptible to ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Convert your old videotapes to DVD before they deteriorate.

Those VHS tapes sitting in your closet won't last forever. And if you don't have a VCR anymore, those home movies are pretty useless. If you really want those tapes to stand the test of time, you ...

Sign Video publishes pointers on the different ways to burn VHS tapes to DVD. Probably the most common way to do it at home is to hook up your digital video camera to the VCR and the computer, capture ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

Q: I have many VHS and 8 mm camcorder tapes I want to convert to DVDs as holiday gifts. I would also like to edit them at some point. But for now I just want to save them onto a DVD. How do I do this?