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Be careful of the devices out there. Some of them are pure junk. I tried the Dazzle brand products but the output was so course and pixelated as to be worse than the original VHS. The Adaptec products consistently generated Blue Screen of Death on 5 different systems, 3 Windows 2000 and 2 XP. Another device (Don't remember the manufacturer, but it was a Pyro! somethingorother in the model name) did beautifully on all but video tape. The slack in the sync signals caused it to drop frames on a regular basis.
Try the Canopus ADVC100. You can get it at newegg.com. The reviews on dvdrhelp.com peg it as the best one out there bar none. No drivers are needed at all. Just plug it into a Firewire (1394) port and launch your capture application. Even the software that came with the Dazzle sees it. To the computer, it is a featureless manual-control DV camcorder. Your PC or Mac doesn't know the difference.
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