Low Spec Recommendation Please

[AcF2K]

Hi All. Perhaps someone here could help me with this. I’m looking for a recorder that has one single solitary feature. That is that it can record from both PAL and NTSC sources via a scart cable. That’s it. That’s as fancy as I want. I’ll NEVER be creating a final dvd from this machine. Its only going to be used to get video files onto my computer where the real editing/burning will take place.

Mainly what I’ll be doing is recording PAL from the tv but I do have a large number of NTSC vhs tapes that I want to backup to dvd. Now, this may be a stupid question but some of the tapes are commercial tapes (ie. movies). Will that affect the recording process in any way?

Thanks.

[lordsmurf]

In the USA, a Centrios does this from all inputs.
For a European SCART, beats me.

[donpedro]

Look here

Europian ( PAL ) DVD Recorder with NTSC recording capability

[The_Doman]

Mainly what I’ll be doing is recording PAL from the tv but I do have a large number of NTSC vhs tapes that I want to backup to dvd.

A thing to look out for is that most european VCR's with a so called NTSC playback feature don't put out real NTSC but a so called PAL60 signal.
A lot of recording equipment can't work with that.

[AcF2K]

Thanks for the replys. Is there anyway I can tell if my VCR is outputting NTSC or PAL60? Its a Sony if thats any use.