Deliberately bypassing technology put in place to protect copyrighted material is illegal under terms of Section 1201 (Circumvention of copyright protection systems) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Apart from a dedicated machine, you can use a computer equipped with a DVD writer as it's optical drive.
You will need a capture card or dongle, that accepts the video and audio from the output sockets on the back of the VCR.
Using windows 'movie maker', or other suitable video editing software (sometimes bundled with the capture card), you can play the video into the computer, edit the finished result, add chapters etc. Then burn it onto a DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW or DVD+RW disc.
The easiest way to copy VHS tapes to DVD is to purchase a VHS/DVD combo. It will allow you to pop in a tape and burn it to DVD without having to download software or hook up to computer.
DVD is such an improvement over VHS that it doesn't matter.
Try Amazon, Netflix or Hulu.
Yes. The DVD is available from a number of on line retailers.
What you are seeking to do violates copyright laws.
All VHS films have been discontinued. You would either have to buy a used copy or buy it on DVD.
VHS to DVD converters can be purchased at your local electronics store and are pretty easy to locate. They are also available on the internet on sites like amazon.com
There used to have a VHS copy for sale on ebay. But today I couldn't find it on the wesbite
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Most DVD/VHS combos are now capable of recording VHS content onto DVD.
If the VHS portion of a VHS/DVD unit breaks the DVD portion will still work. It should not be much of an issue depending on how often the VHS is used.
What you are seeking to do violates copyright law.