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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:05 am

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Morning all.

would like to transfere all my vhs tapes to dvd, anyone advise me on the best way of doing this. or what i would need to do this on my pc.. many thanks. kenny... :thumbright:

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:26 am

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Kenny, The Gadget Show showed how to do this using an EZ grabber (cost about £30), it will be shown again of Friday at 12.00 midnight.

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:29 am

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As an aside I copy mine through my DVD recorder, not sure which is the optimum method for quality.

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:41 am

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I'm about to do this myself actually.

What I intend doing is to connect the composite output of the VCR to the composite in of a TV card on the PC (suitable TV cards can be bought for around £30 and will then have a good use after you finished doing all the transfers).

Once you have the video on the PC, you can get as basic or as fancy as you like making a DVD with menus, cut stuff out, etc.

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:36 pm

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http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?Mod ... 7&source=1

not a bad price considering .i paid that for a dvd recorder on its own last year

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 7:54 pm

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I use the EZ Gabber to copy my vhs tapes to dvd
I am using a philips vhs player connected to my pc.
Dont use the burning program which was supplied
it takes too long,Found a better free program on the web.

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 8:11 pm

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http://www.tvstick.co.uk/Downloads/EZGrabber.pdf

This may be of some help, Re the EZ Grabber

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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:37 pm

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An alternative for the ultimatelylazyhandyman is Ebay, where you can find plenty of VHS to DVD services.

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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 6:20 pm

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Hi - If you are still looking and have some christmas money to burn:

Sony VRD-MC5 (DVDirect)

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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 1:55 am

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i would say use s-video if available as quality is higher than composite
also clean heads on the vcr help, some head cleaning fluid on a cottonbud / q-tip wiped on the tape head works wonders

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Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:13 am

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I alway use nero or converx to burn them to disk

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