Most of the stuff out there for analog capture at this point is pretty junk from what I have seen. Especially for composite video. You will get a pretty bad picture.

I would look for a used panasonic dvd recorder deck that has hdmi output and capture from that. Those also have component output too. Decent scaler and comb filter. They were made for capturing vhs and tv broadcasts of the NTSC variety.

It's a little known secret for playing video games and laser discs on modern sets.

If you are interested in that route I can look up the models.

On Apr 6, 2021 12:39, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

I need advice how to best digitize video,
mostly standard def TV/NTSC of VCF events.

I have several USB dongles that take composite and S-video.
They may be adequate, but I don't know what one's really best.

I also have several DVR (digital VCR): Tivo, Sonic Blue replay-tv.
Did those have good front-ends or was most of the attention to the
subscription service?
I know they need to be "jail broken" to work like VCRs.
There's no big red "just record NOW!" button :-(

thanks

-- Jeff Jonas