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  • Steve-o
    Steve-o Posts: 4,487 Forumite
    Okay, after a quick bit of Googling (God love 'em!), I've discovered that a Time Base Corrector does the deed of stripping off Macrovision protection and stabilising the image (so the transfer should be better quality - whether home video or commercial tape).

    http://www.holdan.co.uk/datavideo/tbc100.htm

    At £250+VAT the obvious choice is to buy all my videos again on DVD from Play, but the geek in me wants me to buy the time base corrector and do them all myself. :rotfl:

    Convenience or geek fun.......convenience or geek fun........convenience or geek fun......
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  • I thought that Macrovision only kicked in when you did VHS -> VHS
  • jeffy22
    jeffy22 Posts: 386 Forumite
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    Wombat wrote: »
    I've just started using one of those USB stick transfer jobbies. It comes with software you instal on your computer, plug the audio/visual leads into your vcr, the USB into your computer, start the supplied program, play your tape, click on Record in the software, watch and wait.

    Result was excellent.

    anyone know a good cheap ones around?
    sieze the carp
  • Jeffy - what outputs does your VHS player have?

    You might be able to use one of the following:
    http://www.mediaatlantic.com/product.php?xProd=135452
    http://www.purelygadgets.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=24740&wysiwyg=10
  • jeffy22
    jeffy22 Posts: 386 Forumite
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    it definitely has scart, not sure about the jacks, will have to check when i get home from work
    sieze the carp
  • animox
    animox Posts: 47 Forumite
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    Thanks for all the posts I need to do the same but have been putting it off for years, using the "I don't have the correct cable excuse". So I will now get on with it.
    Cheers
  • Wombat
    Wombat Posts: 960 Forumite
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    jeffy22 wrote: »
    anyone know a good cheap ones around?

    I got mine from Bid TV (https://www.bid.tv) for around £15 inc. p&p.

    It's an Ikasu AV-820 USB Audio Video Converter. I looked the other day on their website and couldn't see any more coming up for auction, so don't know whether they'll be having any more in or not.

    I had a conflict with the drivers when I first set it up on a Win XP Pro laptop and I had to repair the wireless connection every time I booted the lappy. No great problem and I'll sort that out after I've finished tape copying.
  • missstropy
    missstropy Posts: 7,763 Forumite
    Ive been meaning to do this for years too. Managed to do the dv camcorder to pc. but still have old vhs tapes and other older canon camcorder tapes.

    Thanks for the info on this its helped me too.
  • jeffy22
    jeffy22 Posts: 386 Forumite
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    what does everyone think of this one on amazon?
    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Magix-Entertainment-Rescue-Your-Videotapes/dp/B00190Z78U/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=software&qid=1231241519&sr=8-1

    Rescue Your Videotapes
    by Magix Entertainment Ltd
    sieze the carp
  • Don;t know that one ( but plenty of user reviews on Amazon HERE) - but have this one and it does the job fine
    LINK

    But there are many re-packaged variations, most prob some from same original factory I expect

    If you find you only have scart on the VHS player, you can get a small convertor which plugs in to that scart and provides the relavent phono connections for a couple of quid in Tesco - just looks liek a scart plug which phonos connectors where the cable would normally come out
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