Late Bloomer for Smart TV upgrades [View all]

so ... the issue comes up .. vhs conversions to dvd and for that matter film to digital. Thought I had that nailed with a film to digital converter. It sounds like that would be fine for PCs. But how does it play on smart TVs?

But then the issue of analog vs digital TV's came up, and then vhs to digital, and then playing on a modern digital TV like a Roku or Samsung.

I spent an hour on AI informing me about this stuff. Seems a sticking point is picture quality deteriorates when VHS is played on smart TVs. Playing on analog is said to yield better picture quality.

Then they say "use S-Video" cables. Smart TVs as far as I can tell do not have S-Video inputs. More frequent is to use analog RCA to HDMI adapter. Is there S-Video to RCA to HDMI? I think not, or at least don't think it would improve anything.

Does it help to digitize first, before playing on smart TVs?

Thanks for any direction you can offer. AI sorted it out well, but sometimes they generalize and slough over sticking points, as if everyone already understands the technology.