It wasn't that long ago that as a gift for my parents, we transferred all of their 8mm home movies of the family growing up to video. it looks like we should wait before transferring them to dvd.
I bought (a fairly inexpensive) combo player/recorder that allows you to copy a VCR tape to DVD (or vice-a-versa). It has worked fine copying my old VCR movies to DVD plus the main benefit is that the VCR tapes were beginning to "fade" and that doesn't happen with a DVD, so I've "saved" my old movies from fading away.
