the easiest way is vhs to dvd. they sell these at bestbuy, circuit city. but the problem with dvds is that they get scratched very easily. last year i copied a few vhs to dvd and now i cant watch half of them because the scratches. dvd also takes up a lot of space. in avi format, you can fit about 6 movies in 1 dvd, but with dvd, all you can do is one. to archive stuff, its much better to use avi, but i dont any software for it. if you end up converting vhs to dvd and then back to avi, i suspect you will lose a lot of the quality that you might not if you did direct vhs to avi.