I bought an "old" Panasonic DVD/HDD/VCR combo. They are old as in out of market since ~2010 https://www.whathifi.com/panasonic/dmr-ex99v/review https://www.wha

I bought an "old" Panasonic DVD/HDD/VCR combo. They are old as in out of market since ~2010 https://www.whathifi.com/panasonic/dmr-ex99v/review https://www.whathifi.com/panasonic/dmr-ex99v/review And it was still 400€ but almost in pristine condition. Anyways it makes perfect VHS rips. It has a HDMI out so you can play directly on pretty much all TVs. Unfortunately there is no access to the files directly (DRM I guess) so copying to PC is a bit slow cause you have to burn it to DVD first (but it's not reencoding the rip so there is no quality loss after the first recording). That's the smallest problem. I wish there was a jailbreak or something cause there is a USB port on the device but afaik that's only for some kind of software based troubleshooting by the Panasonic service. Also one of the reason I bought that it has a time base correction chip so no desync issue with old VHS tapes. Perfect sound and don't have to reedit them.