I did a little of this a couple of years ago and wasnt that happy with the return i got for the time invested. I had more horsepower than you and a card with hardware mpeg compression, but I cant say I made sound decisions all the way around.

Have you considered farming the job out. Last time I checked there are companies that specialize in converting vhs to dvd. then you could put them on the hard drive if you wish.

I am assuming you are talking about home movies and not copyrighted material.

hth

Randy


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