Originally posted by: russs15
Basically, from the sample, is it worth doing that or not bothering??

A lot of people have suddenly become VHS haters ever since the DVD came out, but if you have a good player it isn't quite so bad. Pretty good I'd say. I've transfered a lot of tapes to DVD with my DVD recorder, and when I play one of those most people don't even notice it came from VHS. When I tell them they're usually astonished by the quality. Everyone has created a horrible image in their mind about it, remembering only how bad it can be: tapes played a hundred times and played back on a player with dirty rotten heads.
I also did my own SW LD transfer for fun, with my DVD recorder, but that didn't turn out very well. Because I had examined a lot of those I readily noticd the excessive compression artifacts. So when you want to do a real good transfer, you definitely have to compress it with CCE, instead of letting your recorder do it on the fly. It does a better job with VHS than with LD, but CCE is just magical.