cmnybo

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You just need a video capture card or dongle for your computer. Preferably one with an S-video input. If these are pre recorded tapes, you will also need a Macrovision remover connected between the VCR and capture card. If you want the quality to be as good as possible, you will need a timebase corrector. Those are hard to find and expensive though. The TBC will also remove the Macrovision.

For lower powered devices, you can use a power inverter and power supply to convert the frequency and voltage. They are not particularly expensive or heavy, but it will still be inefficient since you're stepping down to 12V DC and back up to 120V or 230V AC.

You didn't need anything that fancy. You could build a Macrovision remover circuit. The schematics were certainly harder to find before the web, but you could build one up in an afternoon with parts from RadioShack.

on Motorola Radios · c/amateur_radio · 1 pts · 8d

The charger for my Motorola HT doesn't have any firmware. The only ICs in it are op amps and comparators.

on Motorola Radios · c/amateur_radio · 3 pts · 8d

Motorola won't even sell you the programming software for a lot of their radios. If you want to use them, you will have to track down a copy somewhere as well as a DOS PC with a real serial port to run it on.