VHS to DVD with a GTX760 or 6200

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I looked at a few threads on this and I want to try this with a few old VHS tapes that I have which contain childhood memories.

I have a VCR and a computer with enough hard drive space. I noticed all the forums talk about a capture card for doing this. Is there anyway I can do all this with the GTX760 card in the computer?

However, I just looked at my other computer which is older and it has a Nvidia 6200 512mb AGP8x card of course old but then I noticed that the back of the card has a video component and in my box for the card it has a a http://www.nvidia.com/object/geforce6_techspecs.html a wire with a connection to the video in back of the computer on the card and then at the other end it has a red, black, green and yellow,
Do you think this is all I need?
 
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A lot of old VCRs had a coax output, you may be able to pick up a cheap TV tuner card, hook the VCR into that, set it to channel 3 and then record from there. Depending on how much the capture cards cost this may be the cheaper option, and since you are working with VHS tapes quality is a moot point, they will have degraded over the years so capturing from a coax port will still handle wayyy more resolution than they have left.

LP231 is right though, all the connectors on the back of your graphics card are going to be output only, you would have to find an old ATI All-in-Wonder card which was a GPU+TV Tuner but i don't know if there are even drivers to support those cards on modern systems. I definitely recommend the cheap tuner card...
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A lot of old VCRs had a coax output, you may be able to pick up a cheap TV tuner card, hook the VCR into that, set it to channel 3 and then record from there. Depending on how much the capture cards cost this may be the cheaper option, and since you are working with VHS tapes quality is a moot point, they will have degraded over the years so capturing from a coax port will still handle wayyy more resolution than they have left.

LP231 is right though, all the connectors on the back of your graphics card are going to be output only, you would have to find an old ATI All-in-Wonder card which was a GPU+TV Tuner but i don't know if there are even drivers to support those cards on modern systems. I definitely recommend the cheap tuner card route.

This would work for your purposes
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815260046
 
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There used to be those stand alone VHS to DVD recorders, just play your VHS and it will record it to a DVD.
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I looked at the usb SIIG JU-AV0211-S1 USB 2.0 Video Capture Adapter (Analog to Digital), now would this be better for connecting the vcr to the computer than the KWorld tv tuner? I looked at a bunch of these capture cards and they have a range in price and most of them have lousy reviews. It's tough to figure out which one to buy?

Any suggestions on the capture card for a few VHS tapes?
 
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Maybe it's lousy reviews because that particular person thought he can get HD quality from the shows he recorded with his granny tv?
Why not just take a bunch of small paper, write down the ones you saw, fold them up and throw it in a bag and shake it.
Then without looking grab one and that's the one you buy.
 
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