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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
What is this "coax USB TV tuner" you speak of? Seriously, I was only being half-facetious; we actually do have 2 or 3 tapes of family events (ie my brother's first hockey game) on beta tapes. We kept the tapes around in hopes that we would come across a Beta VCR someday.
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You can get BETA vcr at garage sale and on ebay as well as cleaning tapes - they arent cheap though.
My dad is going through this exact same thing. I bought him something similar.
You will need a fairly descent computer, I would suggest on with a 512MB video card. I got him to buy an bare bones DELL XPS a few years ago when he talked about doing this durring his retirement. It took him a few years to get motivated but now he is going though them like gangbusters.
Key is to plug the USB tuner into a USB 2.0 port. We did a few tests with Vista 1GB Ram and onboard video and the video was very grainy. Upgraded the ram to 4GB put windows 7 on there, was better but still grainy. Bought a 512mb video card and it fixed everything.
He uses that and windows movie maker and he is buring through about 10 tapes a week. Second step is giving Costco his HI8 reels and have them conver them to digital for him and he will cut it using Windows movie maker.