

It converts these to digital format and sends them to a PC via a USB connection. The DX2 has a video converter that can accept composite or S-Video signals. Plenty of these devices are available I decided to try out ADS Tech's DVD Xpress DX2. This would allow me to copy the video on to my PC, then edit it and output it to DVD.

I decided to use a video-capture device instead. And you can't improve the quality of the videos you're transferring.

It's possible - you just record each video as a separate video on the DVD - but you can't easily edit the result. But I wanted to take video from several different tapes and compile it on to one DVD, which is awkward to do with a set-top device. The simplest solution would be to connect the output of the VHS recorder to the input of a set-top DVD recorder.
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Next, I had to decide how to copy the video to DVD. Mechanical devices like VCRs can chew up a tape if they haven't been maintained, and ones that haven't been used in some time are especially prone to this. That way, I was certain that the device was still working and wasn't going to destroy the tapes I wanted to preserve. But I didn't just stick the VHS tapes I wanted to copy in there instead, I connected the VHS recorder to the TV and recorded and played back some TV on a blank tape. Although we replaced our VCR with a hard disk recorder some time back, I still had an old VHS deck lying around. The first thing I needed was a VHS player.
