Convert your old videos with the Ion VCR 2 PC – USB VCR Converter

By Roland Hutchinson on Wednesday 28th May 2008 10:00 am in Gadgets, PC Hardware

If your like me, you probably have a collection of old VCR cassetes and no VCR to play them on.

Well the guys from Ion have the answer with the VCR 2 PC, which will convert all your old video cassettes to digital files on your PC.

This idiot-proof video player allows you to convert long-forgotten VHS recordings into pristine digital files. So you can cringe at your shoulder pads in those homemade vids, laugh at Arfur’s antics in Minder, marvel at Wogan’s hair-don’t (course you videoed Eurovision) and sing along to the Shake ‘n’ Vac ad, without cracking out your soon to be obsolete VCR.

Here’s the specs.

Convert VHS tapes to digital files to view on PCs, iPods, PSPs, DVD and other media players
Includes Easy Video Conversion software to customise movies and burn DVDs
Software allows you to take still images from videos
Can convert videos from camcorder to PC, via AV sockets on the front of the device
Works as a regular VHS player for TV playback
RCA and USB Outputs
Scart output
Auto tracking and tape playback
LED-backlit buttons

The VCR 2 PC USB VCR Converter is available to buy online for about $300 from Firebox.

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cjsavvy

At last! This is cool. I had almost given up hope. I want one.
Phil

The most important thing is will this transfer bought movies – if not then it is not really much use
Mal

I have VCR2PC but I am having a lot of problems with the “tracking”
which I have not resolved any suggestions
Thad

I’m having problems at the beginnings of tapes – for the first 15 minutes the picture breaks up every few seconds and the sound drops out. Is this the same problem you’ve been having, Mal? I called the Ion helpdesk and they suggested fast-forwarding the tape to the end and then rewinding it, ‘to re-tension the spools’. I tried this a few times but it didn’t work.
jml

I’m having the same problem,and this is the 2nd unit I’ve tried. Looks like back to the store it goes. Anyone found a solution the bad tracking?
charlie

problem setting up ion vhs to dvd. software loads then crashes system. my computer has usb not usb2 someone says this could be problem. anyone else had similar.when I say craches it made a good job of it, I ended up putting new hard drive in.
Also bought cassette to cd and Lp to cd both of which work perfectly