[geeks] I haven't gotten into this yet but I need some advice

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > My mother wants to take all her tapes of my childhood and my brother's
> > and put them on a preserved format.  She was originally thinking of
> > DVD-R, but she has too old of a Mac to make this cost effective at the
> > moment (9600/233)
> >
> > She'd like to know the easiest and cheapest way of preserving these
> > dying videos on either the Mac or the PC.
> >
> > She was looking at the CD Video Recorder on www.terapintech.com, but I
> > was wondering what disadvantages or advantages this held since I am not
> > a video person.
>
> Gah, that's expensive.  If all you want is video CDs, then could you just
> buy her a CD-RW drive and something like the Miro DC-30.  The pair of items
> shouldn't cost more than about $200 together, plus more hard drive space
> will be needed.

I would get a used ATI TV Wonder and compress with DivX.  You get DVD
quality full-length on a CD.  More than a couple of hours of VHS on a CD
with no loss.

Peace...  Sridhar