This specialized equipment will be much more expensive than even the most expensive of Macs and servers. Properly converting VHS to digital will require specialized equipment that's way beyond the scope of PC do-it-yourselfers. All analog video is interlaced - but cheaper capture devices like the Elgato shoot themselves in the foot by always deinterlacing interlaced footage before they even send it to the PC.

What's worse, the Elgato cannot really keep interlacing. Thus, image quality loss when converting from analog VHS to digital is unavoidable due to the resampling of pixel content no matter what. The vertical resolution is fixed at 480 pixels. With an aspect ratio of 4:3 NTSC, that would translate to an effective total horizontal resolution of only about 350 to 360 pixels. You see, the effective horizontal resolution of most VHS footage is only about 270 pixels per picture height. Actually, most VHS footage is already extremely low quality to begin with.