TV Tuner Advice

[BlackAxe3001]

I'm looking for some advice because I don't have much experience in the whole tv tuner area. What I want to do is convert my vhs tapes to dvds. I want to use my PC so that I can author the vhs tapes, add menus, cut out damaged sections of video from the tapes degrading, etc. What would you guys recommend would be best for accomplishing this task? I was looking at some of the Hauppauge products and they seem pretty decent.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815116633

This one seems nice, but I really don't know what I am looking for I guess.

I know you need software to author the video and I already have that(thanks to a friend). I just need a way to get the tapes converted to a video format on my computer.

Thanks

[BDC]

My Dad has a funny external box thing with composite, audio and s-video inputs and a firewire-out, so that you simply record to the computer. It's rather neat, and sorts out those silly audio-video sync issues.

[BlackAxe3001]

Do you know what the brand name and model number of the product is?

Also, if the product does hardware encoding, that would be great. Keeps the CPU free to do video authoring while the card encodes another tape.

[Xiahou]

Im not sure you need a TV tuner for that. I have a PC that I run 3 TV tuners in, but I use them all to record TV shows. To record VHS, I'd have to hook the VCR to it and set the tuner to whatever channel the VCR is on to record it.