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So you want someone to have already conveniently collated your unique esoteric collection of old movies for you ?
You do understand how unrealistic that is right ?
Most movies that were "relatively popular in the 90s" are still available to download via torrent.
Alternatively pretty much everything that made even a few pennies for the studios was re-released on DVD & then bluray and can therefore be found in second hand stores and ebay inexpensively.
So, the actual solution to your problem is
Step 1 write up a list of your VHS movies, if you do it in an app (text editor/excel whatever) you can then copy paste for the next step.
Step 2 use a torrent index/search page such as ext.to to find each movie. Download them. If you're in a country with aggressive laws use a vpn
Step 3 any that aren't available (no seeds) check your local charity shops and ebay or equivalent in your country (LeBonCoin forexample)for DVDs, you may have to get an optical drive to attach to your PC.
Step 4 optional, I would suggest ripping to file any DVDs you buy so you have a permanent copy.
Edit yts.gg is pretty good for the old stuff (although theoretically anything on yts should be the same on ext it often isnt)
This should be step 1 IMHO. You can either get a vhs to dvd unit or they have some much cheaper vhs to digital that you then capture the stream from OBS.
The cost of getting an interface for recording the output of VHS, and the messing around you have to do to get it to work properly (macrovision and all that) far exceeds the cost of buying the DVDs from your local charity shop that you can't find a torrent of (shouldnt be many), and the quality will be massively better from the DVDs than the crappy quality you will get from the VHS tapes (particularly if they are worn).
You digitise VHS when you have no other choice - there is only one copy of it. For the stuff mentioned as examples - the vast majority of which should be easily torrented - there is no reason to go digitising the vhs.
I wouldn't even say theyre that specific. Its just random 90s movies, nothing crazy rare. But yeah youre right I need to make a list. Ripping them takes way too long and I don't like them enough to re buy the DVD just to rip it to my nas anyway. Thank you for the comment !
If they're fairly mainstream there's a very high probability there's a torrent of it still live. I'm betting there won't be too many gaps once you've queued that list up.
Ripping is not a big deal any more if you have a reasonable drive and a reasonably current PC - stuff that would take many hours a decade ago now takes 15 or 20 mins (and that's at bluray 1080p quality).
Nono sorry, ripping vhs. Because thats real time. Takes forever.