drngr said:
There were one or two D-VHS players with HDMI outputs, yes, but that would be capturing the decompressed display and not the transport stream. You would have to recompress.
I know. I thought that the goal was just to preserve the content at (psychovisually) the same quality, not to have a bit-for-bit copy of the TS.
The bit-for-bit copy of the TS is, of course, the best solution.