I used to have a TV tuner card with video inputs and capture capabilities and used that before ditching my VHS tapes however many years ago that was.
Worked pretty well, but then I never watched those files again and couldn't tell you where they are now.
I can't see a need for HDMI specifically, either a capture card with the right inputs or a USB device like you linked should be just fine. I'm guess the HDMI converter was just to be able to connect to a capture card with an HDMI input, but at that point the converter is doing all the work and the capture card is doing almost nothing.
Don't expect great things, it's really surprising to see just how bad even a good VHS image looks today when compared to anything else, even DVD looks a bit low quality after getting used to HD and Blu-ray.
Edit: Commercial VHS tapes can have copy protection that causes many capture cards to blank the picture or it mucks up the colour and audio, just in case that's a factor. There used to be video "enhancers" available that stripped it out.
Macrovision is what I think it was called.
Worked pretty well, but then I never watched those files again and couldn't tell you where they are now.
I can't see a need for HDMI specifically, either a capture card with the right inputs or a USB device like you linked should be just fine. I'm guess the HDMI converter was just to be able to connect to a capture card with an HDMI input, but at that point the converter is doing all the work and the capture card is doing almost nothing.
Don't expect great things, it's really surprising to see just how bad even a good VHS image looks today when compared to anything else, even DVD looks a bit low quality after getting used to HD and Blu-ray.
Edit: Commercial VHS tapes can have copy protection that causes many capture cards to blank the picture or it mucks up the colour and audio, just in case that's a factor. There used to be video "enhancers" available that stripped it out.
Macrovision is what I think it was called.