[mythtv-users] OT: Converting VHS to digital with Ion vcr2pc

[Brian Wood]

On Saturday 29 November 2008 22:56:27 Jonny B wrote:
> My mother has hundreds of old home movies and whatnot that she wants
> to convert to digital so she can get rid of the tapes. She saw this
> here thing, and I was wondering if anybody had any experience with it.
>
> http://www.ionaudio.com/vcr2pc
>
> It *appears* to do the encoding in hardware, but I am not sure. I was
> hoping someone that has used one could say. Otherwise, would it not be
> easier to get a USB capture device with hardware encoding (which can
> be had much cheaper) and plug her VCR into it? I am half tempted to
> tell her to get a Happauge HD-PVR and when she's done converting all
> her VHS tapes, then she could give it to me, and I could use it for HD
> capture. This seems like a more logical purchase to me than a VCR with
> a USB port and a extra set of video inputs on it. Anybody?

Save $100:

I bought a Phillips VCR/DVD-R combo for under $100 which I used to convert 
hundreds of VHS tapes to DVD. 

It would refuse to copy a VHS tape "protected" by MacroVision, but this should 
not be a problem with home movies. As for "whatnots", there are alternatives.


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