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arthur daley
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 Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:05 am Post subject: VHS to DVD or other digi format - anyone done it? |
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Hi All
I was hoping that someone here may have done this or tried to do this already and have some pearls of wisdom to share!
I have or rather my wife has literally hundreds of VHS tapes that are occupying acubic metre of space in our house (literally a cubic metre).
Her tapes are mainly her teaching resources that have been taped from TV. There are a few pre recorded ones.
I have a meagre collection of maybe 50 tapes, mostly from the TV, that I would not want to part with.
Question is how easy is it to transfer from VHS to DVD or one of the MPEG formats onto say a couple of 1TB drives. Not sure how much you could get onto a 1 terraB drive but it must be between 700 and 1000 hours I would think.
I realise that this could take forever to do but if we did 2 a day - 1 overnight and 1 while we are at work I am sure we could make some deep inroads into getting rid of the VHS stockpile and reclaiming all of the storage in our house.
The ideea is that if we wanted to watch one of the 'tapes' we could either drag it from the big drive onto a big memory stick and plug it into the laptop at home or at school.
Any suggestions? I already tried to persuade her that she could probably safely throw half of the tapes away but I was wasting my breath!
regards
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Bludall
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My oh has an analogue tv card in the computer. It has an aerial input, so you take the output of the vhs to the tv card. Our card scans for an input, so that it picks up the right channel and it will record dvd quality mpeg files, as long as the computer is fast enough. You'd get an av file that will play on media player or other players and could be used on the laptop. Maplins sell analogue tv cards. It's easy to fit too.
Maplins tv card
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:07 am Post subject: |
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Bludall has the right idea, but there is a better way 
For a similar price to the maplins card, you could get a Hauupuage HVR-1100 TV Card.
Benefit of this is:
Analog TV like the maplins one
FREEVIEW Digital - so you can use it for all your TV viewing even after analog is turned off
Composite Input - This will be the best way to connect the VCR to the card as it is the cleanest signal from the VCR (prob have to buy cables to suit for about a fiver)
Prices vary for these - I think I paid about £25-£30 a few months ago from PC World - prob cheaper on-line
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Foggy
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if money no object Maplins sell a unit for 199 quid that does it all for you ,tape in dvd out converted at the touch of a button
no doubt other places do as well ,will look round
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arthur daley
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| Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Hi All
Thanks for the suggestions although the name Maplins tends to senda shiver down my spine !
I'll try to get a look at a card and a direct unit. I can see both having advantages, it really depends on how clever the direct unit is - ie if you can do multiple tapes (clips) to a single dvd and also on if it is a Maplin own brand product or a well known manufacturer
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