Whereas I would love to see the results of such an effort, if I were in your shoes I'd want to know what the unopened limited edition box set would go for on the open market to a collector .vs. an opened one (even if only played once to do the capture - though how you'd prove that I don't know).

And assuming I decided to go through with it, I'd practice with something else until I had the methodology to get a good capture down pat, so I really would only play them once.

I wonder what the equivalent to the "X0 player" is for vhs tapes...