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My parents have been asking me for the past year to convert all our old VHS to a digital format (and I guess also DVD). Me, I'm not so sure I want to ensure the survival of tapes that so readily document the ackwardness of my youth ... but my parents promised to pay for all the equipment that would be required in this get-up, so I readily agreed.

Fortunately for me, Woot was recently selling the Adaptec USB 2.0 MPEG-2 Video Converter, which turned out to be perfect for the job.

I got the sucker in the mail today, so I decided to try a test run tonight and see if this thing would work.

Set-up was amazingly simple - I simply plugged in the converter into the wall, plugged it in to the VHS, installed some software, and pressed "record" (in the bundled software)... and voila, record!

I'm currently recording my first VCD (I can also make DVDs with menus and stuff, but I'll save that for later ...

So for all of you people who are looking to convert your VHS into DVDs (or VCDs), find yourself an Adaptec, or you can just borrow mine (if you live close to me).

I'll post more on this later as I actually create the files rather than just record them.