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Tape to DVD?

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Hi. not to sure if this is the correct forum to ask, but:

I have a collection of tapes at home varied from recorded old TV programs to family camcorded videos.

I was wondering if there was any way I would be able to transfer these tapes onto DVD so that I may save some closet space. If so, what equipment might I need (any suggestions?) and how might I go about setting this up?

Thanks for any help I may recieve.
 
Easiest way is to plug your VCR's out to your videocard or TV tuner in (RCA or S-Video). Preferably, you'll be using a professional VCR with quality output, althought I don't know of any cheap mainstream computer components that have component video.

Personally, I just connect my VCR to my TV tuner card (if you have VIVO on your videocard, you can use that and connect the RCA out on your VCR to a mic jack adapter) and use the PVS software to record an Mpeg-2 file from the video output while it's playing on the VCR.

If you have a reciever, you have more choices of ins and outs such as digital audio, but it all really depends on the quality of your tapes and your VCR in the first place to output a clean signal.

If you don't care about quality that much, it's easy to just go the RCA jack or even coaxial route. Then just convert the captured video to a preferred format. If you don't care about quality, go for DIVX. You can put a lot more onto DVD and there are DIVX compatible set top DVD players for $70. If you have to have DVD video for compatibility or just quality, just use the Mpeg-2 file and create a new DVD video compilation and let the burning program encode it.
 
Yeah, just buy a tv tuner card that has rca inputs on it. The instructions for the card should get ya going. And a dvd burner if you dont already have it.
 
i used windvd recorder software. very easy to use. I converted 21 vhs tapes with 1-2 hours on each onto 4 DVDs
 
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