You probably have a video of your wedding day or videos of your childs first steps or other video you would like to preserve. The problem with any kind of tape, audio or video, is that it degrades over time, so you videos look and sound worse and worse the longer you have them. The only way to stop this is to bring your videos to a digital format like storing it on DVD or a media computer. Let me walk you trough the DVD process first. In order to make analog to digital (eg. VHS to DVD) you need a computer about 1GHz or faster, more then 300 Mb of Ram (memory) and at least 15 Gb free space on your harddrive. Further you will need a way to get the video onto your computer and out again on a DVD. And at last you need a video editing software to edit and render your movies into the right format for DVD's. Ok, lets get the video into your computer. There are several different products on the market, but the only one I really like is the “ATI All In Wonder” series. ATI, one of the leading graphic adapter manufacturers, has put a TV receiver and TV in and output capabilities into their “All In Wonder” graphic cards. With one of these cards you are now able to get any analog video signal into your computer. The next step is to edit your movie and than render (export) it into the DVD format. This is where you can say the faster your computer the better. If your computer is a lower end video editing machine (1GHz) prepare for something like 12 hours or more render time for a two hour movie. So it is a good idea to do that over night. Once you have overcome this step you ca burn a DVD. In order to do that, you need a DVD burner, of course. There are two major formats today. The one is DVD-R and the other is DVD+RW. Both the dash and the plus format have their advantages and disadvantages. The problem is kind of similar to the old VHS vs. Betamax battle. Modern DVD Burners support both formats, so you won't be stuck later if one wins over the other. Don't settle for anything less! A TV capture card usually includes recording and editing software, so does the DVD burner. A media computer safes you a few of the steps. You record direct into the computer and leave it there. The media computer is directly connected to your home entertainment center and has all your DVDs, CDs, videos, pictures, records etc. stored and you use it via remote control. It also doubles as a CD and DVD player and a PVR (like a TIVO).

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