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A while back, I was at my parents’ house helping my mom clean out the hallway closet. We found an old shoebox that had some VHS tapes stacked inside. They were all dusty, some without cases, and most ...

This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

Converting old tapes to digital can be tricky, but using Roxio Easy VHS to DVD for Mac made the process easier than I expected. The setup worked smoothly on my Mac, letting me connect my VCR quickly ...