Re: Transfer Analog VHS Tapes to my PC

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From: James Hahn (JamesHahn_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:03:24 +1100

Your card has S-video and composite video inputs. The composite video is
supported by most VCRs, but the S-video input would be preferable if your
VCR supports it. Any reasonably recent VCR should have S-video outputs,
although cables are not usually supplied as standard. 

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"TR" <TR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:F393E8BE-CA18-44A6-B823-7874896CAD75@microsoft.com...
>  I would like to transfer my wedding and kids VHS tapes to my PC to burn 
> to
> DVD. How do I get the video onto my hard drive? I have XP Media Center
> Addition with a ATI Radeon X300 SE Video Card and the ATI E-Home Wonder TV
> Tuner card. The output jacks from VCR are RCA jacks but I don't see any
> Inputs on my computer that will accept RCA connections. Is there a 
> converter
> or do I need to do something different? Thanks

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