As I’ve talked about before, I have a lot of VHS tapes I want to transfer to DVD. Today we went to a bunch of yard sales, and one of my finds was a dual-deck VHS/DVD unit. It had a button that said “copy” and a post-it saying they hadn’t tested the record function because they didn’t have the discs, so I assumed it was a one-touch copier. Well, it is…from DVD to VHS. Of course I didn’t find this out until I’d paid the $15 and dragged it home, so I now have a combo player…anybody want it?

This did inspire me to get the DVD recorder from our old house, though, and I hooked it up to the VHS player we already have at the new house. So I finally recorded my 1995-1996 season of It’s Ac onto DVD, along with a couple of other short pieces about my high school. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the 1996-1997 season, so I will have to make that into a separate DVD because I’ve already finalized the first one. I also have two huge bags of old VHS tapes that I watched growing up, with movies like Silent Victory: The Kitty O’Neil Story and Konrad, which I can now finally burn to DVD! I’m not sure if I have Nadia in the collection or not, but I will definitely want to burn that one…and, of course, my beloved tape of the ‘88 Olympics, which is now 20 years old and needs to be preserved pronto. My father-in-law has given me a bunch of DVD+R’s to start with, and I will be buying more in bulk if I can, because I have so many things to copy!