I got 2 VHS Stereo player,still in good condition.

If you are in Penang, there is a shop, along Jalan Paya Terubong, same row as the famous Char Siew Fun, that repairs old VHS players, CRTs and other AV equipments.
You can take at look there.

I suggest you try your luck at the LYN garage sales. Search for VHS . Good luck

LYN = lowyat.net
mean HERE..

this main forum is called LYN..   the subforum = garage sales..

LYN is LOw Yat Net...

no worries , here is the garage sales thread. Go to the bottom of the screen where you can perform a search.

http://forum.lowyat.net/GarageSales

perhaps you can look for a VHS + DVD recorder combo deck, you can directly convert your tapes to DVD format. not very high quality (depends on your tapes of course, but at least the format is viable, and longer lasting than tapes.

My mom uses Sharp brand for her VHS tapes...most of it are imported stuff from US...yeah..ballroom dancing tapes

You can still get a VHS player if you go hunting and asking around...if you are in JB I can tell you where to buy them.

Take note, yes, we all know thing like VHS are suppose to be standardize, but tapes that are more than 10 years are difficult to play, but for newer tapes, it will look good. Maybe thats why that shop fellow said your tapes are empty

Also, if you VHS tape is moldy, its best to clean it up first with a VHS tape cleaner.

It shouldn't be empty unless you miss recorded it, I hope you break off the tab to prevent this from happening.
My mom did tell me, for newer models of VHS, has compatibility issue to VHS tapes that are more than 10 years old...dunno why, suppose to be standard stuff.
Probably the head tracking is not the same.

For VHS tape cleaning, just go to those electronic shop..maybe they still have them, its like a shoe box where you put some alcohol and tape in (go easy on the alcohol!)

Hmmm, multi system is always good, never know if you'll want to pop in that collector's edition Titanic tape...

But it's mono only. If your tapes aren't recorded on a stereo VCR, it's good enough and you're not missing anything. Just remember to use a RCA Y-cable for audio when connecting the player to your video capture card. For good effect tho, I'd recommend searching for one that has HiFi playback as well as world multi support.

Edit:
http://www.mindlogic.com/MSVCR_SHRP_vc-ah990w_DTL.shtml

This one looks pretty good. Ask around to see if any Sharp authorized distributor can still get one for you. Iirc this is the last model of VCR available from Sharp in Malaysia.

maybe the technician press REC button lol. anyway i thought i saw some vhs player in carrefour.

There is nothing wrong with Mono. Just that if you're planning to convert Hi-Fi stereo video tapes (if the videos you have are in HiFi stereo), the conversion will have mono sound. Apart from that, no difference. As for Y cable, it's a cable with one RCA connector on one end that splits into two RCA connector on the other end. Looks like this:


Here's the thing: Mono VCRs only have one audio out connector. I'm assuming the easy-cap has two audio in connectors (L/R for stereo).

I'll try to put this in layman's terms. Mono VCRs will only store one audio track for sound. Stereo VCRs will store a mono audio track for backward compatibility with mono VCRs and a pair of encoded audio tracks for stereo sound (left and right audio tracks). The stereo sound is stored such that it's only accessible on stereo VCRs, while mono VCRs will play the mono audio track and ignore the stereo audio tracks. A stereo VCR playing back a mono tape will scan the tape for the encoded stereo tracks and fall back to the mono track if none is detected.

I'm not sure how the Easy-Cap capture works, but to be safe it's better to populate both audio connectors than to just connect one and then wonder why only left or right speaker on TV has sound once the conversion is done. This cable will connect the only mono audio out connector on the VCR to both the L/R audio in connector on the easy-cap device so both L and R will receive sound. For video just connect a straight one-to-one RCA cable from the VCR's video out to the Easy-Cap's video in.

it looks ok, but it's been sold.

Is there a Cash Converters near you? they will have some units, and its better cuz you get to test before buying

Try doing a WTB in the garage sale or Mudah.my, lelong or something like that.

Buying these stuff its best to test it out first then only pay money.

Of course , do not pay to anyone before you confirm the item really exist..mudah users easily scammed..

did you manage to go down to cash converters @ ampang point?