Hello
First post --- Had to wait a few days and learned a lot by reading in that time. I am new to DV and the only real experience I have is my father who uses an ADVC-100 to render his projects to DVD (very clean, but also very time consuming).
I have a bunch of old VHS material (some home, some commercial) to convert to DVD and I am planning on getting the recommended JVC Digital recorder: DRM10S (or the Liteon 5005) then doing some simple menus on my Toshiba Tecra Laptop and burning the final product. (DVD Multi drive, 725M 1.6 Mhz, 60 GB 7200 RPM Drive, 512Ram).
Originally, I was planning on an external drive and a canopus ADVC-55 (or a ADS Pyro-wire) cost around $350 total --- now it seems like overkill for my needs. Even though I have a lot of material to capture and archive… one day it will be complete, then the ADVC-55 will begin gathering dust. I am assuming the JVC unit will do my conversions faster and have a use when the projects are completed. Am I On the right track?

Here are the questions –
1. If all of my Commercial VHS can be copied on my old Go-Video dual deck system - do I need to worry about Macrovision when I record commercial VHS from the Go-Video to the JVC? (I think the Go-Video removes (or ignores) the macrovision recording from tape to tape.
2. I’ve seen VHS to video conversion on the ADVC-100 and it looks much cleaner on a TV than the source, will the JVC recorder give me the same results.

Any insights, advice or opinions will be appreciated.
Thanks for your help.
Vic