At 07:24 AM 11/7/2007, you wrote:
Would anyone know of a good, inexpensive way to get old video tapes over to a PC so I can make DVD's of them? There use to be some hardware rigs to do this, but I haven't found a decent one yet.
Plug the VCR into the video / audio Line In of a capture card and then play / record the output. Then edit-encode-burn.
There is no way to "rip" the tape or, speed up the process, unless you want to buy one of those VCR to DVD burner devices that will automatically burn the VCR to a DVD. But the problem with that is that you can't control the editing / encoding process. Maybe you want to encode 4 hours on each DVD rather then the default 2 hours 15 minutes.... but maybe you can adjust this with the new machines
