Burn baby, burn!

First off, let me set one thing straight. This is NOT a review for the song "Disco Inferno." As part of an upcoming move, I have been sorting and purging stuff that I do not plan to take with me. Part of this has included elimination of stuff that, quite frankly, I just don't need. Since I acquired a laptop last semester that contains a DVD burner, and I realized that my desktop TV tuner can rip VHS tapes to digital format, I decided to buy some blank DVDs and start creating my digital collection.

To start my process off, I connected an A\V switch box to my desktop using a standard RCA video cable and a headphone to Stereo RCA audio cable. Next, I used a standard RCA A\V cable to connect the A\V switch to the VCR that I would be using to copy my VHS tapes.

Second, I opened my TV tuner software on the desktop. This allowed me to take the physical VHS cassettes and make video files that a computer could read.

Third, I used a utility that is included in Windows Vista/7 called "Windows DVD Maker" to burn my discs. This was another utility that streamlined the process considerably well, with only three steps to its disc creation process.

Once the disc was inside the computer, there was a slight waiting process. Eventually the bar filled up to one hundred percent and the computer decided to return the disc to me.

Eventually, once the disc was finalized, I was able to label it, (and not by the color of its label, but by the content of its characters!) - that is to say, I gave the disc a clever name, and described the video footage contained therein.