Digitizing VHS

Ok I have this huge Project I've been waiting to attack for umm 4 years now. It's all about digitizing my VHS tapes. I've been taping since 1985 or so but lost all my tapes in 91 during my move to the states. but in 92 or so I started again to tape and sort of try to recover my lost gems. I was mainly ok with loosing that other stuff because it all was before HI-FI, Stereo recording. so before then it was all in Mono. Most of my "gems" are music related so I do need them to be somewhat decent in sound.

I have a bunch of music videos (from the other blog) live performances from unplugged award shows and so on. I thought YouTube would be fine for this and I wouldn't need to save them but once I saw the overall quality of this stuff, most of them stuff that will never be released officially, I realized that if I wanted to truly enjoy it I had to digitize them. @ first I was thinking of burning the stuff on DVD but after doing some research I realized that I can only record 2 hours DVD without loosing image quality after that, the compression just craps out the stuff more than it already is. Not to mention that videos are 6 hours, well I recorded in EP, and so it would take me 3 DVD per tape...sucks. I was talking to a friend and realized that by now I might as well just digitize them and keep them in a hard drive and play them straight from the hard drive to the TV since this is the way things are already developing. This will save me a heck of a lot of time because I just need to put them in.

almost 4 years ago I digitized stuff I had recorded on my DVr instead of using VHS I used a DVr that could connect my computer to and digitizer right from there, the idea was to @ some point burn them but now I can just organize them and keep them as WMV or AVi or whatever format they're in. Some live stuff and pretty cool shows like Inside the Actor's Studio. Stuff with Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Jack Nicholson, I think and so on.

SO the project is started but hopefully I'll finish it before these tapes disintegrate. I had some trouble getting the Audio and video to sync. You can see this happen a lot on YouTube. I'm hoping that it's just a processing problem not just an impossibility.