Hi

I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer some
old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any recommendations on
what to buy and what to avoid?

A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it was crap,
didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to rebuild my PC to
get rid of it. So this time I want to buy something that works !

thanks
Andrew

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> Hi
>
> I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer some
> old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any recommendations on
> what to buy and what to avoid?
>
> A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it was crap,
> didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to rebuild my PC to
> get rid of it. So this time I want to buy something that works !
>
> thanks
> Andrew
>


Go out and buy a cheap dvd recorder for less than 100 that sits under the 
tv connect video into this...

You will use it more than a pc card... 


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wrote in message 
news:1124387230.918129.21480@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Hi
>
> I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer some
> old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any recommendations on
> what to buy and what to avoid?
>
> A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it was crap,
> didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to rebuild my PC to
> get rid of it. So this time I want to buy something that works !
>
> thanks
> Andrew

can you borrow/hire a camcorder?
record onto tape and then dl to pc

aahhrg@hotmail.com wrote:


> Hi
> 
> I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer some
> old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any recommendations on
> what to buy and what to avoid?
> 
> A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it was crap,
> didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to rebuild my PC to
> get rid of it. So this time I want to buy something that works !
> 
> thanks
> Andrew


Scart lead?

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zaax

Aahhrg wrote:

> I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer
> some old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any
> recommendations on what to buy and what to avoid?
> A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it
> was crap, didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to
> rebuild my PC to get rid of it. So this time I want to buy
> something that works !




Wrong newsgroup!

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[Replace "the Water Margin" with "ntlworld" for e-mail].

In article <4305b0be$0$22935$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader01.plus.net>, 
nonoe@nonoe.com says...

> 
>  wrote in message 
> news:1124387230.918129.21480@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > Hi
> >
> > I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer some
> > old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any recommendations on
> > what to buy and what to avoid?
> >
> > A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it was crap,
> > didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to rebuild my PC to
> > get rid of it. So this time I want to buy something that works !
> >
> > thanks
> > Andrew
> can you borrow/hire a camcorder?
> record onto tape and then dl to pc 
> 
> 
> 

They are already on tape, how would I get the output of a VCR onto the 
PC?

Thanks
Andrew

In article <lhpNe.10497$CM.7948@newsfe7-win.ntli.net>, 
lin.chung@the.Water.Margin.com says...

> Aahhrg wrote:
> > I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer
> > some old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any
> > recommendations on what to buy and what to avoid?
> > A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it
> > was crap, didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to
> > rebuild my PC to get rid of it. So this time I want to buy
> > something that works !
> 
> 
> 
> Wrong newsgroup!
> 
> 

Why? I am looking for good bargain, I just want a personall 
recommendation of a product as well rather than believing the marketing 
blurbs which I did last time.

thanks
Andrew

>>
> They are already on tape, how would I get the output of a VCR onto the
> PC?
>

Our Canon MVX330i can take an analogue video signal input (ie. from a VCR), 
convert it on the fly to digital format and output it to PC via the firewire 
port. I'm not sure which other models in the Canon range are able to do 
this.

Henry

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 20:36:38 +0100, AndMart  wrote:


> In article <lhpNe.10497$CM.7948@newsfe7-win.ntli.net>,
> lin.chung@the.Water.Margin.com says...
>> Aahhrg wrote:
>> > I am looking for a fairly cheap video capture device to transfer
>> > some old videos to dvd. Can be internal or external. Any
>> > recommendations on what to buy and what to avoid?
>> > A few years a go I bought a Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe unit and it
>> > was crap, didn't work and the software kept crashing. I had to
>> > rebuild my PC to get rid of it. So this time I want to buy
>> > something that works !
>>
>>
>>
>> Wrong newsgroup!
>>
>>
> Why? I am looking for good bargain, I just want a personall
> recommendation of a product as well rather than believing the marketing
> blurbs which I did last time.
>
> thanks
> Andrew
>


Well I bought a Hauppauge USB Live cable a few years ago and it has
worked pretty well for me. However it doesn't record sound so you'll
need to buy one of their WinTV products in order to do so and I'm not
sure you can actually record the input into a DVD format. Hmmm, that
wasn't much of a recommendation, was it? ;)

Fred X

Hadn't thought of that, any suggestions where to look to compare
different models ?

thanks
Andrew