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Posted by Netmask on 05/15/06 02:45
"Patrick Neve" <neve@uoregon.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0605141657010.26892@darkwing.uoregon.edu...
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Netmask wrote:
>> "Patrick Neve" <neve@uoregon.edu> wrote in message
>> news:Pine.GSO.4.58.0605141437280.26892@darkwing.uoregon.edu...
>> > Hi.. I know, it's the 1,000,000th post asking for advice on VHS
>> > conversion.
>> >
>> > My question stems from the fact that standalone component-style home
>> > theater DVD player/writers seem to have plummeted in price. And the
>> > better units appear to have S-Video inputs.
>> >
>> > I'm looking to transfer some LD's and VHS's using S-Video, and I'm
>> > wondering if the results will equal or rival the conversion of an
>> > inexpensive PC capturing device. My budget is in the sub-$300 range.
>> >
>> > I don't need to author menus or anything like that.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your observations or advice...
>>
>>
>> I have a USB Dvico MPEG capture card that I paid 3 years ago au$350. If I
>> was starting out again afresh today I would buy a standalone DVD recorder
>> for well under au$300 - why? Well it doesn't tie up my computer it can
>> sit
>> in a dark corner merrily capturing all those old VHS tapes. I would
>> record
>> on to rewriteables and then if I really wanted to edit the result,
>> re-author
>> do chapters and the like it would be easy to just copy the VOB files on
>> to
>> my computer etc.. DVDrecorders represent a more efficient use of
>> resources
>> and my time..
>
> That's kind of what I'm thinking. Just wondering if the picture quality
> will be comparable to the capture card method... if it seems like six of
> one and half a dozen of another, I'll be getting a standalone console unit
> soon..
>
> Thanks..
Well you are dealing with VHS so as long as you don't go for DVD long play I
don't think it is an issue. For me price is not so much an issue as the
inconvenience of tying up my computer for hours on end. On picture quality
I have done an AB comparison with an old VHS tape of 'Popular Neurotics"
(early Jeff Goldblum tellie movie) on my friends Konka DVD recorder and my
Dvico, no difference.
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