WarrenSTI

Anyone know how to do it!
Thankyou

andy97

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either a standalone dvd recorder or capture card on a pc with dvd rewriter. Connect leads, press play on vcr and record/capture on dvd side

OllyK

I do this by an odd ball method at the moment as I have a TV card in my PC and a RF Distribution box in the loft, so I can play (VHS or SKY+) and it goes out on an RF channel, to the box in the roof and can then be viewed by any TV in the house, including the PC TV card which has the ability to record. The problem with RF is there is quality degredation and you end up with mono.

I can use a video directly from the RF in to the card or I can use SCART with an S-Video / Audio splitter on the other end for the TV card. I'm going to set this up in due course.

WarrenSTI

Cheers everyone. better buy a DVD recorder, sound the most straight forward route

Karl 227

Don't buy the cheapest one, it'll drive you nuts

andy97

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Just make sure that the dvd recorder can record from external av inputs, most will do this, but check with the shop

New_scooby_04

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I got a combi DVD VCR recorder, which can record from VCR to DVD and vice versa. £240.

Ns04

ALi-B

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If you buy a standalone DVD recorder with the intention of copying pre-recorded VHS tapes. Be aware some maybe protected by macrovision. Which some recorders won't be able to bypass.

If that is the case, you can get a box-o-tricks to decode it, or use a PC instead.

GC8

Id suggest using an Hauppauge PVR card; ideally the 350. The quality of the hardware MPEG encoding will be way way better than on cheaper DVD recorders and it ignore the Macrovision signal too.....

Simon

GaryK

I got a DVD recorder with HD and just record straight off video can then do any editing I want before burning to DVD.