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View VCR on laptop

I would like to watch my VCR through my laptop. Is that possible?

... Only if your laptop has some sort of video in.

Here's my port specs

Ports
Standard
• RGB (monitor) port
• TV-out (S-Video)
• IEEE 1394
• 3 Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports (v2.0)
• External Microphone jack
• Headphone jack
• RJ-45 LAN port
• RJ-11 modem port

Impossible.

Someone suggested ATI TV WONDER USB 2.0

What about that?

I wouldn't advise it. Find one that supports Firewire and you're in business, but honestly unless it has a tuner built in then its not worth the money spent trying to make it work.

MD-2389 wrote:I wouldn't advise it. Find one that supports Firewire and you're in business, but honestly unless it has a tuner built in then its not worth the money spent trying to make it work.

Why firewire? USB 2.0 is faster.

No it's not. Plus, most video gear uses Firewire anyway.

Matrix wrote:Why firewire? USB 2.0 is faster.

firewire is to SCSI as USB 2.0 is to IDE.

Matrix wrote:

MD-2389 wrote:I wouldn't advise it. Find one that supports Firewire and you're in business, but honestly unless it has a tuner built in then its not worth the money spent trying to make it work.

Why firewire? USB 2.0 is faster.

USB is quite a bit slower when you factor in the overhead traffic. Going from USB to Firewire would be like going from 10Mbps to 100Mbps a network.