For computer, three things.
1. capturing; a hardware_software device for capturing analog single from vcr to the harddrive in either mpeg or avi format (depends on the hardware).
2. Converting avi/mpeg to dvd format (transcoding and editing), which takes a long long time.
3. Burn it to a dvd disk.
What software came with your dvd burner?
A complete soluttion in real time; see RickW's posts below (a Sansui VRDVD). I think it might be a better solution if your time is more important than $400.
I want to record some VHS home movies onto a DVD. I have an excellent DVD+R burner in my new Dell desktop and, although I am not a computer novice, I don't know how to do this. Assuming there is an appropriate software package to enable me to do this, how is it done? Is the VHS movie created on the hard disk in real time with the DVD burning from this file? Is the same true for recording a cassette tape onto the CD+R crive?
Joe

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