This article also appeared in the December 2014 issue of Consumer Reports magazine. Q. I need to convert my VCR tapes to DVDs. Can you recommend a device to do that?—Liss Lieberman, Bay Shore, NY A.

I used CVS to convert three old VHS tapes to DVD. The process was simple — I dropped off my tapes at the photo counter and picked up the DVDs about 4.5 weeks later. The DVDs worked fine, and the tapes ...