For many years VHS was the best thing since sliced bread. The picture quality was good (better than the TV picture). The sound was good too. Easy to record on and you could rerecord on the tape also. One of the main benefits of the VHS was they were easy to use. All you did was put it in the VCR player and press play. Not difficult at all. Unless you had to sort out the tracking. what a pain in the neck that was. The other thing with VHS was the tape sometimes got chewed up in the VCR player, and the only way to get it out was to take the thing apart, or simply cut the tape. When you did get it out it was ruined, not all of it but about 20-30 seconds of the tape. You also had the worry that when it got to the same point in the tape will do it again? (most likely). When copying a tape it is done in real time so if the tape was one hour long that is the time it would take to copy.All the manufactures have stopped making VCR machines and all the film industries are only producing DVD and blu-ray discs. So if you’ve got any old VHS tapes I would get them converted to DVD as soon as possible. The cost of this service can be expensive, depending how long the tape is. If its an old film you can buy them cheap on the intenet. If it’s a wedding or a special event gets it on DVD fast or all will be lost. You can buy a kit from the internet that connects to your pc. So if you want to edit the film you can, they don’t cost much, if you have a lot on VHS buy the conversion kit it will work out cheaper than sending the tapes away to be converted onto DVD.