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daniel49

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Thinking about what might be the right route to take..here are some possible pros and cons that occur to me.
Whats a good approach to being cost efficient and some decent quality output.

dvd recorder?
pros : easy, one step process.
cons: no editing, on the fly= poorer quality?


capture card?(pvr)
pros: editing, one less electronic gizmo to buy
cons: complicated, time consuming, lots of disk space?

If you do this type of conversions would be interested in hearing your experiences good and bad.
 
I use the capture card. Some software I use are WinDVR, ULead Disc Factory, MPEGVCR, and TMPGENC. Space, meh it's not that terrible (I've got a 400GB). Anyway if you're looking for software/compatibility/etc. check out www.vcdhelp.com
 
If you don't need the editing, the DVD recorder will be much easier. Quality will be about the same as a capture card unless you set the capture card to use a super-high bitrate then use some other software (TMPGenc?) to reduce the bitrate.

If you need editing, my Hauppage PVR-150 has worked reasonably well for capturing laserdiscs and a couple of old TV tapes. The bundled software is fine if you don't need things like the above (re-encoding to lower bitrate)
 
If you don't need to edit you for sure want the DVD recorder. Otherwise get a big hard drive and a card with built-in mpeg2 encoding (Hauppauge PVR-150 is good). Another pro to this is you can install some media center software after you're done with the tapes and have a PVR.
 
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