VHS ONTO LAPTOP

I want to put some old vhs videos onto my computer. How can I do this.

Presumibly I have to connect my laptop to my TV. I have a TV card on my
laptop, and svideo, CATV, and firewire. I tried playing around with
various leads but cant get it to work. I thought I could capture the
VHS using Adobe Premier, but it only gives me the option to capture
from Firewire.

How do I do it, what cables do I need??

Richard Crowley...

You likely need something to capture the video. Just because
your laptop has "a TV card" doesn't mean that it does video
INPUT. It virtually exclusively means video OUTPUT.

There are various video capture products which will
plug into your Firewire port. They usually convert the
video (and audio) to "DV" which is 13.7GB/hour. Do
you have enough disc space?

Another alternative is to use a device which will convert
to MPEG. These typically use USB2 rather than Firewire.

You didn't say WHY you wanted to capture your videos to
your computer, so can't recommend one or the other. But
depending on what you want to do (next steps), one or the
other of those choices may be a clear winner, and the other
could be a big disaster.

Note that many recent digital camcorders will "transcode"
where you can plug in your VHS recorder and the camcorder
will convert to digital and feed into your computer.