Re: Video ripping question?

["Matt Norman" <matt.norman@xxxxxxx>]

DVD burners coming down...  Have a look at this link.  I've downloaded the
software but not tried it out yet.

http://www4.tomshardware.com/video/00q3/000913/index.html

Matthew




> any decent capture card should be able to do this,. I would recommend
the
> pinnacle cards only because ive used them for years and like them. 
The
> problem your going to have is diskspace. for a similar quality than
your
> tapes your going to be looking at between 4 to 6 megabytes a second.
> (depending on codecs FPS etc) which would equate to somewhere around
20gb
> per hour, add up all your tapes and times by that and your probably
pretty
> close to needing a terabyte or two,.  Best way may be to wait till the
> DVD-ROM drives come down a little.
> regards,