Hokay -- we can set up a time. The home videos should be straightforward; I expect it'll work decently on anything except commercial videotapes. (Which mostly have dub-protection built into them, IIRC.)
Dubbing is pretty much trivial so long as you don't want to do anything interesting to it: put in the VHS and the DVD-R, and hit the "dub" button. My only real disappointment is that there is no "dub for the next 60 minutes" feature -- combined with the fact that it only dubs in realtime, it means I have to remember to set an alarm to turn the dub off when I expect it to be finished. The only saving grace is that the machine is sensitive to the track-separator signal used by modern VCRs, so more recent tapes that need to be completely copied can simply be slapped in, and the tracks will be laid automatically...
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Dubbing is pretty much trivial so long as you don't want to do anything interesting to it: put in the VHS and the DVD-R, and hit the "dub" button. My only real disappointment is that there is no "dub for the next 60 minutes" feature -- combined with the fact that it only dubs in realtime, it means I have to remember to set an alarm to turn the dub off when I expect it to be finished. The only saving grace is that the machine is sensitive to the track-separator signal used by modern VCRs, so more recent tapes that need to be completely copied can simply be slapped in, and the tracks will be laid automatically...