USB TV-tuner stick

Hey, i saw this on newegg, and was wondering if anyone here could help me.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260023

What I want to do, is hook my vcr up to my computer, and 'capture' the video onto my hard drive, and then later burn it to a dvd.

Will something like this work for capturing vcr output, or does it only work with over the air signal or something?

If not this, what's the best solution for getting video-tapes onto my computer?

or maybe this?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815100112

 

the quality for component playback from my USB Tuner is quite low...

looks like the KWorld one you linked doesn't have component in... some of them do(my Volar Max does, think the Hauppauge 950(Q) also does... those two have better hardware than KWorld IMO, so it might be better off just getting them and using it as a tv tuner later)... consensus is that Kworld is on the low end of TV Tuners

your second choice seems okay to, but i think that device would be similar to a tv tuner... might as well get a tv tuner...


for your computer, you're taking in an analog format and need to save it/compress it to digital manually... depending on the software you use to record, some don't compress for you, some do...(Windows Media Center doesn't really, so you have to manually add it to a converter, i like Super by eRightSoft... and you can manually adjust teh settings you want... ) ( if you use KWorld's application, there's probably a record+convert setting, but it's probably not the bestquality)

 

Thanks for the advice. I might as well look to download the ones i can find, and scrap the ones I cant. Time to move into the 21st century i suppose

 

You need a TV tuner card, with audio and video input and output.
then you connect your VCR with this tv tuner input.
now using your tv tuner software choose input source as AV
now play some video on VCR, you should be able to watch your video on PC monitor.

Using Personal Video Recorder software you can store this video to hard disk and later you can cut CD/DVDs

This Personal Video Recorder software is generally shipped with your TV tuner card for free.

Hope this helps!