Portta VHS to Digital Converter, Video to Digital Recorder with Remote, Compatible with VHS, VCR, DVR, DVD, Hi8, Mini DV, Gaming Consoles (VCR, VHS/DVD Player, Camcorder Required)

https://a.co/d/09pJovnc That's what I bought and it's amazing.

This is the sorta thing that you want. > Stand-alone Digital Recorder There are a number of different types and styles of these sorta devices and they are great, because you simply connect your player directly to the device and then connect an external storage device of some type and then you hit play on the player and record on the digital recorder and then you can walk away. The capture portion is totally independent of your computer. Because any other setup you use will require that the computer be left on and pray that nothing happens to the computer while its doing the realtime capture of your VHS tapes, because an 8 hour tape will take 8 hours to capture. I have done a number of VHS tape captures over the years and this stand alone digital recorder has been the easiest and most direct way to do the initial part of the whole conversion job.