There’s a ton of junk science about converting VHS movies to DVD-ready digital formats suggesting that because the perceived image quality on screen of a VHS movie converted to digital is lower than the actual resolution that it isn’t necessary to capture VHS movies at higher resolutions before burning to DVD. The reality is capturing a low quality image results in low quality output and a less than VHS quality image on the final DVD. For all those 6 hour SLP VHS tapes in your collection, breaking up the video into two DVDs or burning them as one dual layer DVD results in a better looking picture than trying to ratchet the image quality of the video down to fit an entire 6 hour tape on one 4.7GB single layer DVD. Before you decide to embark on a project of importing one large VHS tape and putting it on DVD check out these recommendations for creating DVDs from long format video.