We moved all our home movies onto VHS tapes. Now we'd like to move them onto DVD. What's the best/cheapest way to do this.
"We moved all our home movies onto VHS tapes. Now we'd like to move them onto DVD. What's the best/cheapest way to do this."
First of all, moving them onto DVD will not improve the picture quality, so you might want to think about converting them to video CD's (VCD) instead as it can be done cheaper, and most DVD players will play VCDs as well.
If you want to do that, there are two ways to go. The easy expensive way is to use a video disk recorder that copies from VHS to VCD (
http://www.mp3extreme.net/purchase_description.asp?ID=38&Type=homeunits).
The less expensive way, and longer way would be to get a TV-in card for your computer and record from the VCR to a file on you hard drive. Then edit if you want and burn the file to a VCD using a standard CD-R drive and the right software.
If you must have it on DVD, then you need the TV-in card still, record it to a file, then use a DVD-R drive and DVD authoring software to create your DVD.