Best way to archive home videos on digital format?

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Liam Rules

I have a bunch of home videos on analog VHS-C tapes and now ive moved up to digital camcorder but for long term storage what do people suggest? Im going to store backup dvd's but I also want to store everything on a portable hard drive. Should I save everything in the vob format or mp4, etc,..? Im looking for good quality but also not a huge file size. What does everyone else do?

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You can convert .vob's to say a .divx or .xvid format pretty easily without losing all that much quality(considering your original source is VHS probably won't even notice any quality difference) and it will be about half the size. I'd buy two hard drives, a backup, and then a backup for your backup. It will cost some money up front but it's well worth it when you have a hd go down. You can find usb Tb drives for around 100 - 120 bucks a piece, which is pretty cheap. This is pretty much how I do it. Dvd backups tend to go bad over time, get scratched up, various different ways they just stop working.

What is out there that will hold and play a lot of music without compressing it?

average jo

I want to be able to have CD quality sound without the CD hassle. I want it to hold a couple thousand songs and be portable from my house to my car systems. I have an extra 80gb portable hard drive if there is someway to use that without a computer. I have a little 8gb MP3 player but it only holds 800 songs and they're compressed so it is fine with headphone while running but not on a better quality sound system.

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Get a 160 Gig iPod classic, if you can find one. Use lossless compression. If you look elsewhere, read reviews on this as the quality of the chip that creates the sound from the digital information matters a LOT.

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