Digitise VHS tapes

[SanchoP]

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[CeeBee]

My guess... probably more expensive than to get a TV card for ur pc or other video-in card, and do it yourself...
Then u've got the card for other uses too.

 

[.Froot.]

Your best bet is to either go for the TV card, or to take a look at one of the computerised VHS players. Haven't seen them in a couple of years but maybe they are still around.

 

[howardb]

If you have a VCR and can get your hands on a HDD DVD recorder - that will do the job - I did this with my VHS tape collection and their now on HDD and DVD.

I plugged my VCR into my home theatre DVD recorder (LG RH1999H) using RCA cables and recorded them all to the HDD - then edited them on the DVD recorder and archived to DVD.

Alternatively, get a decent TV capture card that has a full hardware decoder/encoder - unless you have a very powerful PC you will get dropped frames with a lower spec PC...

I would do them for you, but I'm in JHB...

 

[HandyTechTipper]

I've just done some research and ordered the bits and pieces: "How to build your own 500GB HDD recorder (PVR) for under R1,850 (US$280)"
http://handytechtips.blogspot.com/20...500gb-hdd.html

For VHS digitising you would only need the Emprex media recorder plus a small hard drive - so total about R1300