<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Aloha, yes, this can be done too. I'm more concerned about having the ability to playback VHS in the perhaps not-too-distant future. DVD may go the way of the Edsel someday, too, but it's not an immediate concern.<div><br></div><div>My reply was a bit off-topic to the initial question, but thought I'd share those experiences regarding format obsolescence while they were fresh in my mind ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Keola</div><div><br><div><div>On 2010 Kep. 2, at 11:51, Terry J. Klokeid wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">On 02-09-2010, at 2:39 pm, Keola Donaghy wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Personally I would (and now that I think of it, probably will) order a couple of the VHS/DVD players. My understanding that stand-alone VHS decks are getting harder to come by, and the combo VHS/DVD decks are price so low that it should be economically feasible.<br></blockquote><br>Inexpensive stand-alone DVD recorders are also available. I have a couple made by Sanyo, I am sure there are other brands. Then you just hook the VHS player to the DVD recorder, and it makes a DVD for you, without connecting to a computer.</span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><a href="mailto:keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu">keola@leoki.uhh.hawaii.edu</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; ">University of Hawai'i at Hilo </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier; "><a href="http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/">http://www2.hawaii.edu/~donaghy/</a></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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