All these VHS tapes need moving to DVDs.

I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?

valvejob wrote:
I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?




http://www.synchrotech.com/support/a...nversions.html

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:13:47 -0500, valvejob wrote:

I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?


Don't HD TVs accept the output of a VCR directly?

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On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:13:47 -0500, valvejob wrote:

I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?


Don't HD TVs accept the output of a VCR directly?

I think he means using a computer with a DVD burner

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On Sep 2, 4:13 pm, valvejob wrote:
I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?

It might be cheaper and easier to buy a VCR/DVD player/recorder combo
unit.

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:41:08 -0700 curly Bill wrote:
| valvejob wrote:
| I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
| could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.
|
| I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
| a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
| analog video audio (3 rca jacks).
|
| Suggestions?
|
|
|
|
| http://www.synchrotech.com/support/a...nversions.html

All that stuff seems to be a little over the top. One just needs a PCI card
that does analog A/V input, a DVD burner, and the right preparation software.
Avoid DV format ... it's not what DVDs use.

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On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:36:30 -0700 Mikepier wrote:
| On Sep 2, 4:13 pm, valvejob wrote:
| I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
| could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.
|
| I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
| a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
| analog video audio (3 rca jacks).
|
| Suggestions?
|
| It might be cheaper and easier to buy a VCR/DVD player/recorder combo
| unit.

Sure ... take all the fun and challenge out of making it work :-)

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| Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below |
| first name lower case at ipal.net / |
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On Sep 2, 4:13 pm, valvejob wrote:
I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
analog video audio (3 rca jacks).

Suggestions?

You'll need at a minimum a video capture encoder card and storage.
All cards are effectively software layered encoding except for high-
end commercial encoder chipsets ($1000 boards last I looked a number
of years ago). Most subsequently have minimal encoding standards,
being economically packaged to endusers for rendering video as close
to painlessly, in as close to real time, as possible. Without which,
for higher standards of quality, it's done at approximately at an
average factor of 1.5 real time. Once over (real time) to make the
capture, once over for the encode;- with a strong processor (3Ghz+) .5
time, to 1+ time for a slower processor. The advantage to third-party
encoders is obviously better results, deviating within encoder setting
for defined limits as an acceptable facsimile of the source. The
disadvantage is the learning curve - broadcast engineering and chaos
theory at its finest. Have a look at Doom9.net for the many encoding
faqs and forum discussions. If you don't like what you see, a dub-
over machine VCRDVD is the least painless way to sidestep encoding.

On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:11:11 -0700 Flasherly wrote:
| On Sep 2, 4:13 pm, valvejob wrote:
| I've got a ton of home VHS tapes that I'd like to move to DVD which
| could then be played on my DVD player hooked to my HDTV.
|
| I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
| a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
| analog video audio (3 rca jacks).
|
| Suggestions?
|
| You'll need at a minimum a video capture encoder card and storage.
| All cards are effectively software layered encoding except for high-
| end commercial encoder chipsets ($1000 boards last I looked a number
| of years ago). Most subsequently have minimal encoding standards,
| being economically packaged to endusers for rendering video as close
| to painlessly, in as close to real time, as possible. Without which,
| for higher standards of quality, it's done at approximately at an
| average factor of 1.5 real time. Once over (real time) to make the
| capture, once over for the encode;- with a strong processor (3Ghz+) .5
| time, to 1+ time for a slower processor. The advantage to third-party
| encoders is obviously better results, deviating within encoder setting
| for defined limits as an acceptable facsimile of the source. The
| disadvantage is the learning curve - broadcast engineering and chaos
| theory at its finest. Have a look at Doom9.net for the many encoding
| faqs and forum discussions. If you don't like what you see, a dub-
| over machine VCRDVD is the least painless way to sidestep encoding.

That does not sidestep encoding. It just shields the user from having
to deal with it. There is encoding going on inside (for VHS-DVD).
But I do agree with the "least painless" aspect. For most people this
is the way to go. Those who want to do some menu authoring for their
DVD dubs will have to go the computer route. Same for those who want
to do some editing (like remove the 10 year old commercials); they will
need to get a video editor and learn how to use it. If they are into
free software, Linux + Kino is an option. Other tools will build up the
DVD's UDF image.

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On 3 Sep 2007 10:30:59 GMT, wrote:

I'm willing to buy a new motherboard and video card and possibly even
| a new vhs VCR player that has the proper outputs. Mine only has
| analog video audio (3 rca jacks).
|
| Suggestions?

For under $150 bucks, I bought an RCA DVD recorder and plugged the VCR
into the recorder and pressed record. Simple as that.

As for editing, if those commercials were on the VHS tape for 10
years...what difference will it make if it is on the DVD? We kind of
enjoy the nostalgia seeing them again anyway. Nothing funnier than
watching a VHS in the middle of summer and they break in with a "gonna
be 15 below tonight".....

After all, it is so much easier to get through the commercials in a
DVD than a VHS anyway.