Is it possible

[henshaw]

Is there a way I can connect my VCR and/or TV, to a Firewire Card to get better results than a TV Capture card?

[jesterspet535]

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Mr. Compatibility
by Tom Payne
from the tape Vince Emery Presents The Funniest Computer Songs
Would you put this system together for me
some I ordered by mail and parts I got free.
The pieces all work, except two or three.
Please, Mr. Compatibility.

Now with my Amiga, all I want to do
is running MacDraw underneath OS/2,
to write all my data on ROM-type CD,
and display EGA on projection TV.


I'd like to plug hypercard into my VAX,
run my parallel printer on standard coax;
Use it all under MS-DOS version 3.2,
and a VCR on RS-232.


My Cray running friendly interfaces with ease,
to movie film shown on a 13-foot screen;
My plotter and laser should speak Postscript well,
networked on Appletalk under Novell.


Autocad my Atari, VGA TTL;
tied to my Apple ][ running Excell.
Lay optic fiber, shaped in a token ring
with a scanner and tablet - I forget anything?


Put all this together - take an hour or two;
hide those ugly cables, and when you are thru
write up a contract saying you'd guarantee
it'll all work forever, or you'd fix it for free.


Would you put this system together for me
some I ordered by mail and parts I got free.
The pieces all work, except two or three.
Please, Mr. Compatibility.




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[ironwood321]

You either need a digital HI-8 camera which you can funnel your phono(Composite) or s-vhs connection straight to firewire. Or some form of dedicated DV tape deck. Or an Anologue to DV bridge like the one from canopus.

And of course a Firewire card and a lot of harddisk space.

[henshaw]

OK.thanks, Ironwood321, for the sensible reply, I think I will have to perservere with my TV card

jesterspet535 reply doesn't help me ,but it was an interesting answer