I cleaned out a cabinet a few years ago and found a stack of old Super 8 tapes. I’ll never forget the way Mom’s face lit up after I digitized videos of her late brother Harold Jr.’s wedding.

VHS tapes were a popular way to store home videos and movies for many years. Now, with technology advancing, many people want to keep these memories safe in a more durable and easy-to-access format.

Q: After reading your recommendation of this product (in Sunday’s paper) to transfer old VHS tapes to DVD, I looked it up, only to discover that it is only a DVD player/VCR recorder! Perhaps you could ...

Q: I’ve got a ton of old VHS tapes. How can I put them on DVD? A: You’ll need a computer that has a DVD recorder and Honest Technology’s VHS to DVD 5.0, for ...

Family memories are priceless, but once you convert your family’s home videos to digital, it’s apparent how expensive they can be. Changing technology has left many with home videos that are unable to ...

You probably have some VHS tapes laying around somewhere that hold precious family memories. Rather than waiting for the technology to become obsolete, which means you risk losing those memories ...

I have an old Sony Hi-8 camcorder and wanted to transfer the footage on the tapes to my computer in either .avi or .mpg format.<BR><BR>I guess a video capture card and some sort of software to capture ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

I'm not the newbie but I'm asking this on behalf of some coworkers who heard the rumor that I'm the in-house computer geek-a-nerd know-it-all. The only thing I don't know is how to tell non-technical ...