Video Capture Card: Where To Buy And Cost

I think what you need is a "TV tuner" card.  It works better with VCR signals than TV, but I'm douibtful about the quality of most TV cards.  I bought one at Ikeja village for 5,000 naira last year and I threw it away days later.

See:
- http://www.gafunk.info/gafunk/spree.php?itemid=517
- http://www.computerport.biz/categorylanding/C10/C28

CD/DVD recorders may be able to take VHS signals directly.  See:
- http://www.computerport.biz/categorylanding/C10/C31

I've collected a ton of vhs tapes over the years.  Now that dvd has taken over, I decided to shift into high gear and transfer everything to dvd.  So I purchased a single unit (vhs->dvd recorder) that does it in one go.  Well, it turned out to be a waste of time, because most of the tapes have anti-copy protection on them.  Luckily, the store had a good return policy, and I was able to swap it for something alse.

So, before you blow $100 on a capture card, think!

Having said that, my current tv/capture card is an ati all-in-wonder.  Works great.  I've also heard good things about Hauppage cards.

Biggjoe, it depends on what u want to use it for. Pro video capture cards are very expensive. I am a video Editor and I use CANOPUS NX for EDIUS and its about N400k for the boundle and u need to be a professional to use it. otherwise there are capture cards of N5k and above but u can only connect DV cameras or DSR DVCAM studio deck to it, not vhs direct