Lo,
At 17:12 04/04/2011, you wrote:
>On 02/04/2011 13:31, Rob Malpass wrote:
>>Hi all
>>
>>I know I know I should have done this years ago but I'm faced with
>>a big geographical relocation and well over 200 VHS video tapes -
>>all pretty full - to transfer to some PC video format.
>>
>>At present, my main concern is the hardware - does anyone know a
>>good solution. I've done about 20 tapes using a Hauppaugge winTV
>>card connected to an XP box. The problem is / was that the
>>connection had to be coax - hence I had to tune the card to the
>>VCR's frequency and (as I've often found) the tuning software's not great.
>>
>>There's [1] from either Maplin or Amazon but I notice some pretty
>>damning reviews and it looks to be a 2 head machine. I'm thinking
>>of getting a 4 head machine off ebay and then some sort of gadget
>>to connect the two - hence I'd like a recommendation.
>>
>>I don't mind Ubuntu, Slackware of W7 - I have 3 pretty well
>>specified machines (none with under 2Gb of RAM) but none have USB3.
>>
>>If anyone has found a solution that works well - please let me
>>know. It seems, as VCRs are becoming harder to find, my time to
>>do this massive job is running out!
>>
>>Cheers
>>Rob
>>
>>[1]
>><http://www.maplin.co.uk/refurbished-vcr-2-pc-usb-vhs-tape-to-pc-convertor-508227>http://www.maplin.co.uk/refurbished-vcr-2-pc-usb-vhs-tape-to-pc-convertor-508227
>I needed to copy a few VHS tapes to DVD for work. Using my
>Panasonic HDD recorder, I plugged the newest video player I had into
>the back as an input device using a scart to RCA adapter, recorded
>onto the hard drive then burnt to DVD. Quality was reasonably good
>but I'm no video aficionado.
>
>Once setup it was pretty simple to do.
I did something similar using my Sony PVR although i used scart to scart
with a sharp VCR i bought from amazon specifically for the purpose.
Martin N
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