Best way is to buy a double deck system that has VHS/DVD in it and copy that way. That's assuming that you're talking about your own VHS movies. Commercial tapes won't copy. Running tapes into a computer requires a video capture card of some kind with inputs and then saving the file to your hard drive (HUGE FILES) and then burning those to DVD.
I want to convert all my VHS tapes to DVD.
I have a new HP pc that is now running Vista.
What software would you recommend for a novice to try this project?

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