Hatrack River Forum: Oh Hatrack gurus, I have a question. VHS~>DVD?

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Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :

I have a DVD burner...how would I go about turning my old home movies and VHS tapes into DVDs? What do I have to buy now?

Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :

I think you will need a video capture card to hook up to your VHS.

Something like this:
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[ November 23, 2004, 03:54 PM: Message edited by: kaioshin00 ]

Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :

Yes, if you want to hook into your existing DVD burner setup, you'd hook the VCR up to a video capture card, tweak the video on your computer, then burn it to DVD.

You might find it easier to get one of the DVRs with a built in DVD burner and hook that up to the VCR, as that would take care of format issues for you. This, however, would be much more expensive.