I'm looking to put some old movies onto DVDs from VHS tapes. From reading around, it seems Hauppauge has a good option for me to use, but I ran across 2 different models and wondering what the differences are for my needs. This is the one I was ready to buy today that I've read most info about on these boards and elsewhere, price $122: http://www.compuplus.com/i/VIDEO/Vi...-1001973.html?sid=4p0871cke5zjwl0&comboid=530 But then I ran across this one while checking at Pricewatch.com, price $79, but don't see it listed at Hauppauge's site: http://www.compuplus.com/i/VIDEO/Vi...-1003605.html?sid=4p0871cke5zjwl0&comboid=530 As money is an issue to me atm, was wondering what the real differences are for my needs of transferring VHS tapes onto DVDs. My computer is an AMD 2500, 1 gb ram, WinXP SP2, 6800GT video card if any of that matters in the choice. Thanks for any advice.
The second also does this: "WinTV-USB2 also connects to VCR, video conferencing cameras and camcorder products for video capture and video conferencing." It's cheaper though, because it only records avi. The first is a hardware mpeg-2 encoder. Definitely go for the first one, although the internal PCI PVR-150 is actually a better device, and available for about $75
I second that, Definately go for the First one as the second one is a USB device with no Hardware Compression and the only good USB devices Use Hardware Compression... I actually used to own the "Hauppague WinTV USB" as it was My First Of Many Capture devices and it was also the worst Capture device I ever owned,It worked well enough but the quality was awefull.... Cheers
