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Old Dec 22nd, 2007 | 04:49 PM
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Copying Beta Tapes to CD?

I still have a lot of my travel videos on the old Beta tapes. Does anyone know where or how they can be transferred to CD?
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Old Dec 22nd, 2007 | 04:58 PM
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Pinnacle Systems makes a connector you can connect from your beta player to your computer, as well as software.

You would make DVDs, not CDs.

www.pinnaclesys.com

You can buy these at Circuit City, Best Buy, etc or online.

Pay attention to the computer system requirements - having adequate processing power, drive space, and memory is important.
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Old Dec 22nd, 2007 | 06:16 PM
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You can buy a DVDR and copy from you Beta to the DVDR. If not you will have to have it done commercially
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Old Dec 22nd, 2007 | 07:00 PM
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Sorry, it isn't clear - do you still have a Beta player? If so, the advice above will work; if not, you'll have to have it done profesionally (what needs to happen, whether you do it at home or have it done professionally, is that the analog tapes need to be converted to digital). Ritz Camera probably does it.
 
Old Dec 22nd, 2007 | 07:15 PM
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You might want to peruse this link:

http://tinyurl.com/ys9w6h
 
Old Dec 23rd, 2007 | 05:56 AM
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dmlove - nice picture, but did you make a booboo?
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Old Dec 23rd, 2007 | 06:04 AM
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You can transfer video to CD:
http://avconvert.com/video/video_cd.html

or video to DVD:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...ovember25.mspx

You can learn more by googling 'transfer video to CD (or DVD)'.
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Old Dec 23rd, 2007 | 04:42 PM
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Thank you for your replies. Yes, I forgot to mention our BETA player no longer works. We bought one on eBay and it worked for about 10 minutes only! No one can seem to fix it. I'll try Ritz Camera, thanks.
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Old Dec 23rd, 2007 | 08:10 PM
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Jed, I'm glad those people in the picture I linked to are clothed! Honestly, I have absolutely no idea who that picture is of, or why my link went there. Here's the actual correct link:

http://tinyurl.com/22ka9z
 
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