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

[Andrew Weiss]

and now a method suitable to a quasi computer-literate person... my 
mother....

I'm not the one doing this

Andrew

On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 01:05 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:50:03PM -0400, Andrew Weiss 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
> <snip:>