Vhs To Pc

[dsfbrit]

I am going to the UK next month and want to copy all my VHS (Pal - LP, SP) holiday videos etc... from the last 15 years onto my PC.

I have seen lots of methods to do this. Cannot decide what would be the best?

Have you done this, or could you recommend a simple method that works?

I have a PC with plenty of disk space to store the tapes (300 GByte on PC and 500 GByte external on USB 2.0)

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks a lot for your help

Edited December 30, 2006 by dsfbrit

[jcgodber]

I bought the ATi GeCube Radeon 9250 video card this solved my VHS to Pc requirements.

I also burn all VHS to DVD

Jim

[monty]

We've just been through most of the options in this thread

[dsfbrit]

We've just been through most of the options in this thread

Thanks I will go and have a look at that thread. I did a search on 'VHS' before I posted, but the search engine said it was less then 4 characters and threw it out!

[dsfbrit]

I bought the ATi GeCube Radeon 9250 video card this solved my VHS to Pc requirements.

I also burn all VHS to DVD

Jim

I will look at that on the web.

Did you buy it in Thailand ?

Were all your tapes in PAL (uk) format ?

Any downsides?

I will probably burn them on DVD as well eventually, at first though I just want to get them digitised, so I dont have to carry a load of tapes back to Thailand.

I am off to read the thread suggested by monthy, so apololgies in advance if you have posted this stuff there already.