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Transferring home movies to CD
or DVD
2 Examples
Another reason to throw out your VCR
Using USB 2.0
Like AVerMedia DVD EZMaker USB2.0 ($90.00)

You will be able to create DVD quality home videos on a CD or DVD . The DVD authoring capability even lets you convert old videotapes to DVDs through a simple one-step process! It also comes with video editing modules tailored for your specific needs, whether basic, intermediate, or advanced.

Direct to Disc Recording
Easy-to-use one-step process is an additional option for users who prefer not to edit their home video when converting. It goes directly from VCR/Camcorder to DVDs in real-time!
Real-Time Recording
Enjoy your DVD, instead of waiting for it to burn. By the time other software has finished encoding, you could have made copies of your video to share with your friends and family.No DVD Burners? No Problem!
AVerDVD EZMaker USB2.0 saves you money by enabling you to convert home videos to DVD quality video on CDs too! If you don't have a DVD burner, you can burn the same high quality video using a CD burner.Re-Edit Recorded DVDs
Want to update previously recorded DVDs? You can do it now by using AVerMedia DVD EZMaker USB2.0. You can add or delete clips and record the video onto the same disc. No need to recreate or record another disc.
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 (Top Pick)
Under 150.00
TV and video recorder with hardware MPEG encoder
and decoder plus FM radio!

WinTV-PVR-350 puts TV watching under your control!
Watch what you want, when you want. Watch TV on your PC screen, in a window or full screen, digitally record your TV shows to your PCs hard disk, or pause live TV and create your own instant replay. You can even burn your home vidoes or TV shows onto a CD-rom or DVD.
The WinTV-PVR-350 supports data rates up to 12Mbits/sec, so you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume. A typical one hour TV show will take 2 gigbytes of hard disk space.
Create your own Digital Video Recorder!
After recording your videos to your PCs hard disk, you can play them back on your TV set with the WinTV-PVR-350’s hardware MPEG decoder. The hardware MPEG decoder takes no system resources while playing videos on your TV set, so your computer continues to run at full speed. Note: when playing recorded videos on your PC screen, the WinTV-PVR-350 uses a software decoder, which requires a minimum 733MHz Pentium processor (or equivalent).
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