Contemplating electronics

[khaosworks]

I've figured out that once I'm in the US I'm probably going to buy a region-free DVD player along with a multisystem VCR with a converter so I can watch my Doctor Who PAL tapes on a NTSC TV. I've been looking at prices and I've found a dealer in CA which does all this multisystem and multiregion stuff.

The question is, being an idiot in these matters, what do I need in the way of additional equipment (amplifier? little fiddly consoles?) to hook up these three things (or can I do without anything extra save cabling)? Budget-conscious solutions are best, of course.

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Re: Canopus ADVC-100

[osj.livejournal.com]

Forgot to mention that, unlike the El Gato or Formac products, the Canopus does not have a built-in TV tuner. So if you want the Canopus to feed cable broadcasts to your Mac, you would need to have a VCR (which is what I do) acting as a tuner and feeding the broadcast signal into the Canopus.

Terence, if you are really interested, I can sit down and explain all this to you in greater detail one day.