Posted by Olin K. McDaniel on 12/31/06 04:27

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 00:16:40 GMT, Larry in AZ
<usenet2@DE.LETE.THISljvideo.com> wrote:

>Waiving the right to remain silent, omcdaniel.abcd@mindspring.com (Olin K.
>McDaniel) said:
>
>> My basic problem is - I don't have anything as a hardware interface
>> within the computers. Perhaps, what I lack is something I used to
>> know was called a "capture card". If this is what you experts feel is
>> needed, please give me some recommendations, but cost is of some
>> importance since I'm not doing this work as a business. Just trying
>> to save some old family video tapes for passing on to other family
>> members as DVD disks.
>
>Why bother with the computer, unless you need to do extensive editing..?
>
>You say you have stand-alone DVD recorders, right..? Just patch VCR to DVD
>recorder and be done with it. Hit PLAY on the VCR and RECORD on the DVD.
>
>I've transferred dozens of older VHS and Hi-8 videotapes to DVD this way and
>am completely satisifed with the results. Use the best recording quality
>possible for the DVDs, depending on the lengths of your tapes. You may need
>to keep changing it.
>
>Occasionally, I'll use a computer only to make a mirror image copy of the
>DVDs.
>
>--
> Larry Jandro
> Video Engineering & Equipment Rentals
> Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
> [Remove spamtrap in ALLCAPS to reply]


Thanks Jerry. I guess my mind must be fogged over, since that is so
logical. Actually, when I last tried to do this some 2 or 3 years
ago, I didn't have the stand-alone DVD recorders and I fought this
problem with my computer, but with very little success. After your
pointing out the obvious to me, I thought that makes a lot of sense
and tried it. It worked fine for what I needed, so thanks again.

Olin

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