My father had a large stack of old VHS tapes that he wanted to convert. He ended up getting a dual-deck VCR/DVD burner. (Sony, Samsung, GoVideo, and several others make such things.) It's literally a single button press and you're done. If you're doing bulk conversion, and you don't need any sort of fancy titles, then this is a fantastic solution. Plus, if you're tight on space in your home theater rack, this lets you get two features in the space of one. For every other funky feature of the deck (e.g., record shows straight to DVD), the user interface is beyond awful, but they at least make dubbing painless. They do detect Macrovision and refuse to dub commercial tapes, so it's no good if that's your goal.