PORTTA VHS to Digital Converter, Video to Digital Recorder with Remote, Compatible with VHS, VCR, DVR, DVD, Hi8, Mini DV Players, Camcorder, Gaming Consoles (VHS/Tapes/DVD Player Not Included)

Brilliant! After finding the family VHS collection of about 100 tapes i decided to give this a go to digitise everything. This is far superior to those cheap USB devices that are unreliable and have lag and audio mismatch. This is perfect! Just plug it into the VHS player, add a memory card. press play and record on the devices and wait until the tape is finished. The only downside is that it cuts the recording into segments of about one hours each so i have to go back and join it together to make one video.

Great device, which we have used to convert dozens to VHS tapes. Easy to use and output quality is good (considering the input is VHS). Only minor issue is that there doesnt seem to be a way to get it to stop recording when the tape ends, so you have to be around for the whole process.

Exactly what I needed to convert old Mini DV & Video tapes to a digital format. I’d been looking at sending the tapes off to a third party to transfer the many, many tapes we had but all of the prices were unaffordable. I decided to see if there was a way I could transfer them myself and I came across this. This device was a fraction of the cost of sending the tapes off to a third party and I didn’t have to worry about them getting lost or damaged! You do need a working VHS player or video camera to use with this device (which I have so wasn’t an issue) but worth bearing in mind if you don’t have access to either. Really easy to set up, good quality video (which can be adjusted to suit your needs) and great sound quality too. It does take a little while to transfer the video but only because it is essentially recording from the VHS tapes or video camera tape so if you’ve got a 3 hour video it will take 3 hours to transfer. This wasn’t really an issue for me - I just set it up, pressed record and left it to it. Simple! It’s great to know I now have digital copies of all of the videos from my childhood & of family holidays - Even found footage of family members who long since past and great to know that footage is now safe & secure!

Worked well with all my Hi8 tapes played through my old video camera and the quality was great. Better than I expected!! 4 stars because it did not work with my Hi8 tape player even when I got in touch with customer support (who did their utmost) it just did not want to function. Yes a really nice machine and easy to work with.

EXCELLENT SOLUTION TO SAVING OLD TAPES A lot of these devices look similar. I selected the PORTTA. This gadget is BRILLIANT. Why? I needed to copy a box of camcorder video tapes and then edit them around. The PORTTA is simplicity itself to operate, gives excellent quality copies straight onto a USB stick (not supplied) which in turn plugs straight into a PC/MAC to process. NOTE: You CANNOT use an external hard drive that is powered via the USB connection. The screen is easily big enough to keep an eye on the copying in real time. BTW, MACs come with iMovie which is an excellent basic digital video editing tool. I am about to move onto a library full of interviews etc on old VHS tapes but have every confidence the results will be just as good. Am also going to see if it copies movies being screened via a projector fed by a ROKU streaming box. The correct sockets are present so it may function like an old world video recorder ? I thoroughly recommend this bit of kit.

I wanted to copy eight 20 year old mini DV tapes onto a USB stick. I found a reasonably priced camcorder on Ebay and then bought one of the cheaper converters with 4 stars on Amazon but it would not connect due to an unresolvable software driver issue (seems a common problem) I checked out an independent review of the Portta converter on Youtube (Tech to remember) - this gave a warts and all description and a fools guide on how to use one. The Portta and a new high speed 128 Gb USB stick arrived next day. Within an hour or so I was happily copying videos onto the USB stick and reviewing them on my computer. Video quality was much better than you might expect from such old tapes. The joy of watching our daughter enjoying Orlando Disney in Florida when she was 11 years old made this item well worth the price however videos of our son's wedding reception and various family trips abroad were literally priceless. If you are hesitating I would say do a little bit of research and give it a whirl - you can always return it if it doesn't work for you. If your camcorder or VHS player has S-video cables (for better quality images) this model can connect to them whereas the more expensive model doesn't seem to. I have the option of a Firewire connection (for higher quality) on my camcorder but sadly this converter isn't set up for it - it relies on a 3.5 mm plug which thankfully came with the camera. I am now planning to dig out an ancient VHS Video Recorder as I have found some big old camcorder tapes from the early 90s - wish me Luck.

Works perfect , and easy to use,,, grade A product

Please don’t buy this is not good and not work

1時間のハイエイト動画を4mbps 128kHzで録画すると、2ギガくらいのファイルになりました。オフタイマーでセットし、ビデオを見ていなくても録画が自動で終わるので、楽ちんです。買って良かったです。

Bra kvalitet, enkel att hantera och att överföra video till usb minne .Jättenöjd

Alles super, Gerät wandelt einwandfrei alles in mp4 um und speichert es auf USB-Stick. Absolut unkompliziert.

It is very good device. I recorded 5 old DV cassette. Then I had a problem with my old camera . Then I fixed my camera. It is working now. The manual is difficult to read . It needs much better explanation as I spent one day to make porta to work again after fixing my camera .

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