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 used CVS to convert three old VHS tapes to DVD. The process was simple — I dropped off my tapes at the photo counter and picked up the DVDs about 4.5 weeks later. The DVDs worked fine, and the tapes ...

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Time keeps moving forward, and old technologies like VHS tapes are fading away. Many of us have tapes full of family memories, but without a VCR, we can’t watch them anymore. These tapes are in danger ...

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