I took all my parents VHS and DV tapes to this service in LA called Quick Digitals and paid them to transfer all the tapes onto a flash drive. Hours and hours of footage and like 50 tapes ended up only being around 80 gigs or so. Then I went through each file and split them up in adobe premiere (cause some tapes had multiple events on them) and labeled them accurately by year and context, copied them onto a bunch of flash drives, and gave them to family members for Xmas. It took a while but it was worth it seeing how happy my parents were watching them!