G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Are there any good rca/composite capture devices? My dad was cleaning out storage and he found a bunch of vhs tapes he wants copied to his pc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 Your local tech outlet probably has a number of options. Failing that, Best Buy normally has a composite to USB device called Dazzle. Should be all you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 Unfortunately we don't really have an outlet like Fry's etc,best buy and office depot are our "tech shops" other than mom and pop shops but they're more repair. I've looked on new egg also but mostly horrible reviews. But thanks for the info,I'll have to check out best buy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 I have a used to love it, why bother with it relationship with Best Buy. After being told "That's only carried in our online store." for the 5th time, I gave up. Best Buy Convince me your brick-n-mortar stores are worth walking into, please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 I check online to see if its in store before I go. Although its been off a couple times. Its only 5 minutes from me but I hate going inside since to get a laptop I know they have and I'm standing right there looking around for someone who isn't busy but it takes 10 minutes to get them over makes me not want to shop there. Unless its 20 minutes before close. Practically empty. I do like the price match with newegg and amazon though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted May 28, 2015 Share Posted May 28, 2015 I just bought an ATI Diamond VC500 off Amazon to use for SD video streaming at Church. It has worked very well for us so far and it's fairly cheap. What might be a better option - if you can still find one - is a VCR/DVD recorder. That should let you copy the VHS to the DVD where you'd have one copy, then you could rip the DVD real easily for a more portable digital copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Adam EL-Idrissi Posted May 28, 2015 Author Share Posted May 28, 2015 I forgot about those. I'll let him know. I'll have to look into the diamond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_G. James Berigan Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I used to use the Dazzle* DV Bridge which worked fine until it died (the asterisk was part of its name). I replaced it with another DV bridge by Canopus. Both support S-Video and FireWire. But it has been a very long time since I've captured from an analog SD source. Last time was to lift the audio from an old taping of HBO to pair with the DVD video of a foreign language dub of the same movie lacking the original English track (Prime Risk). Turned out that HBO made some edits making it difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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