Posted by Mike Fields on 01/02/07 00:00

"Olin K. McDaniel" <omcdaniel.abcd@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:45973b4f.7450729@news.east.earthlink.net...
> 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

Be aware of one issue you may run into -- many recorders refuse
to copy "protected" video's (purchased VHS movies etc.) --
unfortunately,
they will sometimes decide that old tapes where the signal quality has
dropped must be "protected" and refuse to copy them. I have seen
a number of posts about this in the past. They were NOT protected
tapes (Macrovision etc.), but the stupid recorder decided that since
the signal level was fluctuating it was protected. Just be aware you
may run into this issue

mikey

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