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I am not sure I understand. &nbsp;You wish to capture the video (and sound) contents from a VCR tape. This is old enough to not have any concept of USB or HDMI, so you need to play back the tape on the TV and then record what is being shown on the TV.
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<i>unless the TV has auxiliary video output jacks.</i> &nbsp; &lt;-- I assumed that. <br />
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I like your idea of outsourcing it. That is a good way to go.
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Will probably go with the outsourcing. There are about 90 tapes and some are of historical interest (relating to West Africa). I will check up about outsourcing. But before doing what is involved with: Dr Khaln's option mentioned above: &quot;If you have a *lot* of tapes, and I mean 50 and up, you might instead look at getting an old Windows 2000 system and a Pinnacle DC30 or DC50, which is inexpensive and pretty good for consumer grade equipment even though well obsolete.&quot; . It would mean the purchase of the Pinnacle DC, but what else.
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The DC30 / DC50 were supported only through Windows 2000, so:<br />
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Dig up an older system capable of running Windows 2000 (something like a Dell Optiplex would be fine)<br />
scrub the system drive<br />
reload Windows 2000 on it<br />
strip W2K down to the minimum including disabling services and networking<br />
install a second IDE drive to receive video on the secondary controller (W2K does not understand SATA)<br />
install the DC30/50 and the software.<br />
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It would then be able to capture video directly to the DC30/50 input connectors.
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<i>Side note</i>: &nbsp;If the video is not NTSC but rather PAL instead, I don't have a clue on what to do. &nbsp;The DC30/DC50 may have been capable of doing PAL, but it would be necessary to read the documentation to find out.
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Thanks. &nbsp;I think the question is clearly answered. Outsourcing the optimum answer. The other option also an option. Thanks both.
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Thanks. I know where I stand now.
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A query. Is it possible to capture to my Laptop hard drive, &nbsp;the contents of a Video Cassette tape, &nbsp;directly from the picture displayed on the TV (e.g. not capturing it via the capture &nbsp;device &nbsp;attached to the VCR.) <br />
My TV has USB socket, HDMI sockets etc. <br />
Laptop: running Windows 10.
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A query. Is it possible to capture to my Laptop hard drive,  the contents of a Video Cassette tape,  directly from the picture displayed on the TV (e.g. not capturing it via the capture  device  attached to the VCR.) 
My TV has USB socket, HDMI sockets etc. 
Laptop: running Windows 10.

Can I capture a video directly from TV  (bypassing VCR running the tape and sending the signal to the TV.)

Video Editing

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.