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Old 02-10-2023, 10:31 AM
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Originally Posted by genobambino View Post
About '20 years ago I bought a Samsung dvd player recorder with vhs. Just drop in the vhs tape and a cd and hit record, sounds simple enough, not. Problem was the dvd's wouldn't play on the same machine they were recorded on, or hardly any other dvd player, rarely on a computer. I think it was too many different formats of dvd's, I used the one's they recommended, but no luck. I want to transfer the tapes to a flash drive so I can play them on my big screen tv, hopefully those will play on anything.
Note that flash drives have different formats also. You can check the format for a flash drive by inserting it into a computer, right click on the flash drive, and select "properties". If you are playing the flash drive on a device, you need to check the device specifications to see if it is compatible with the flash drive format. You can reformat a flash drive, but doing so will delete everything on the drive.