[Christien]

A few years ago I bought an adaptor from Dazzle to transfer some old home videos. It was about $40 at Best Buy, and is basically a standard cable wire female to a USB male. (might have come with RCA inputs as well, can't remember). Plug it in, fire up anything like Windows Movie Maker, and it's just like transferring from your handycam. Piece of cake. However, IMO, it's only worth it for things like family videos. I'd never transfer a movie or something like that, unless it's a very hard-to-find movie. Much faster to download it, which is legal if you've already got a purchased copy of the movie. (eg. you bought Ghostbusters on VHS back in 1988, so downloading it to make a DVD copy would be legal).