Transfering analogue VHS to digital PC

Can anyone advise of the simplest way to do this please?

I do have a VCR, but obviously it is not a combo DVD recorder. I'm looking for simplicity rather than price, although a decent combo recorder is around £200/£250 although I'd sooner have everything on PC as a start point rather than on disk.

I've seen a few things on the web, such as this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=348158&C=Froogle&U=348158&T=Module

Thanks for your advice.

Dive.

Originally posted by divegeester
Can anyone advise of the simplest way to do this please?

I do have a VCR, but obviously it is not a combo DVD recorder. I'm looking for simplicity rather than price, although a decent combo recorder is around £200/£250 although I'd sooner have everything on PC as a start point rather than on disk.

I've seen a few things on the web, such as this:
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Thanks for your advice.

Dive.

Originally posted by helden
got any friends that have a dvd recorder if so borrow it if you can, get a scart lead and a blank DVD+RW then set the 2 machines away with scart lead tape to dvd, when finished put DVD in computer then get a free DVD ripper from the internet and save your rip to any format you want. Then you can reuse your DVD+RW again for more tapes.

check the back of your PC, your video card may already accept coax cable input from your VCR and be able to capture a video signal. check the apps for your video card, see if there's any capture utilities.

otherwise buy a capture card for $25-$100 or so.

see videohelp.com, they have a lot of info on capture cardds and methods.

using a capture card and capture utility will dump the output of your VCR to a video file (.avi or similar).

you can edit this and burn it to DVD. most capture cards should come with the utilities to do this.

Originally posted by divegeester
Can anyone advise of the simplest way to do this please?

I do have a VCR, but obviously it is not a combo DVD recorder. I'm looking for simplicity rather than price, although a decent combo recorder is around £200/£250 although I'd sooner have everything on PC as a start point rather than on disk.

I've seen a few things on the web, such as this:
...[text shortened]... k/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=348158&C=Froogle&U=348158&T=Module

Thanks for your advice.

Dive.

Originally posted by divegeester
Can anyone advise of the simplest way to do this please?

I do have a VCR, but obviously it is not a combo DVD recorder. I'm looking for simplicity rather than price, although a decent combo recorder is around £200/£250 although I'd sooner have everything on PC as a start point rather than on disk.

I've seen a few things on the web, such as this:
...[text shortened]... k/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=348158&C=Froogle&U=348158&T=Module

Thanks for your advice.

Dive.