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Cross-Post from Out of the Stacks: How to Convert Your Home Movie Tapes to Digital

The Texas Record

If you don’t have one, you might look around at thrift stores, yard sales, and other outlets that may have old electronics. DVDs were considered long-lived at the time they came out, but the writable and rewritable disks are not permanent and are prone to lose data over time – in as little as 10 years! DV) to connect to your computer.