[libstripper]

If you want to do it on a stand slone basis, the best way is to buy one of the new DVD recorders, like the ones made by Panasonic. Their most expensive (current list price of $799.00) records on a DVD and on an 80 gig hard drive. Their less expensive ones, which only record on DVDs, run as little as about $500. All you need to do is plug your analog output from a VCR or camcorder into any of these machines and make the desired recording. I've done it several times with my Panasonic.

[steve-b]

Another advantage of the stand-alone DVD/HD recorder is that you can record a lot of material (a few dozen hours, depending on the quality you want).

The catch is that they tend to reconvert to analog and back to digital when dumping the HD recordings to DVD, because Hollywood insists that American citizens should be treated as criminals.