Converting VHS–>DVD (need help giving advice to friend) at DVinfo.net

Corey Cook · August 28th, 2004, 07:48 PM

There's a friend of mine at work & here's what he wants to do: He wants to be able to convert his old VHS tapes into DVDs with the aid of his computer. I could have pointed him in the right direction confidently if we were dealing with the Mac computer platform and the surrounding group of software. However, he has a PC. Because my experience with PC computers is fairly minimal, I didn't want to give him wrong advice. Are there some PC users around here that could give me some adivce to pass along here? Thanks.

Corey C.

Boyd Ostroff · August 29th, 2004, 08:07 AM

I'm sure this could be done with a variety of capture cards or firewire gadgets. However, if he has very many tapes to burn to disk he really should consider buying a DVD recorder. This will be a lot easier and won't tie up his PC for long periods of time. I also suspect that the results will be better. My recorder (Sony RDR-GX7) has a bunch of special menu controls that are designed to reduce noise and improve quality when burning VHS and broadcast TV to DVD.

August 28th, 2004, 07:48 PM	#1
Corey Cook Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 51	Converting VHS–>DVD (need help giving advice to friend) There's a friend of mine at work & here's what he wants to do: He wants to be able to convert his old VHS tapes into DVDs with the aid of his computer. I could have pointed him in the right direction confidently if we were dealing with the Mac computer platform and the surrounding group of software. However, he has a PC. Because my experience with PC computers is fairly minimal, I didn't want to give him wrong advice. Are there some PC users around here that could give me some adivce to pass along here? Thanks. Corey C. __________________ I Have Spoken.

August 29th, 2004, 08:07 AM	#2
Boyd Ostroff Wrangler Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Mays Landing, NJ Posts: 11,787	I'm sure this could be done with a variety of capture cards or firewire gadgets. However, if he has very many tapes to burn to disk he really should consider buying a DVD recorder. This will be a lot easier and won't tie up his PC for long periods of time. I also suspect that the results will be better. My recorder (Sony RDR-GX7) has a bunch of special menu controls that are designed to reduce noise and improve quality when burning VHS and broadcast TV to DVD.