VHS archival is kinda complicated and not widely understood.First you need hardware, which isn't made anymore. It's all old and in need of maintenance. The tape contacts several parts of the machine, and it has motors and other moving bits, so they all wear out. The heads need cleaning too, and those crappy cleaning tapes don't do a very good job.The tapes also degrade. They can get mould in them, which you really need to spot before putting it in the machine. They can be cleaned, but it's a bit of a process. Professional VCRs give the best video quality, but are rare and expensive now. Even PC capture hardware varies immensely in its quality and capabilities.Even just running the tapes through a machine and hitting record on a computer is actually a quite involved process, it turns out. Whoever does it will need training in how to examine and clean tapes, and how to maintain the VCR. The video will need to be checked before the tape is destroyed.The best option quality wise is to capture the raw RF signal off the VCR's heads, using hardware like a Domesday Duplicator or one of the newer dual channel devices designed specifically for VHS. You can then decode the signal in software for quality far exceeding what any VCR can do. It is slower than real time even on a very fast CPU though, and needs some experimentation to get the best results., The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive. According to a tender notice published last week, Bluelight Commercial - a not-for-profit buyer that acts on behalf of the emergency services - says the police force requires either in-house technology or outsourced services to , The UK police plan to spend up to 75 million pounds ($102 million) to digitize their vast archive of VHS tapes, aiming to preserve evidence by converting analog media into digital files integrated with evidence management systems. The procurement includes both in-house solutions and outsourced servi.