Firstly I hate soldering, especially fiddly little DIN
I understand, this morning I was close to give up just because I had to make a 7/7 din wire. Especially Chinese ebay cheap plug that melt even before anything was solder!
About VHS to HDMI, dont forget (I think) that there is two kind of HDMI, one that carry analogue and the other taht dont and that will never accept analogue signal wirhout an active converter (fancy that: converter!).
