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Dave: >My dream is to dump my VHS tapes into my computer, manipulate them, and hose the portions I want back to tape in the order I want. I still am not sure that is possible after reading the message board here.< Well, welcome aboard! As to your desire to dump VHS into your computer, it's doable but on the expensive side. At a rough guess, you're looking at about $10,000-$15,000 to get started–assuming you don't *already* have either a Pentium or PowerMac w/32 megs or better of RAM and a couple gigabytes hard disk space that you can pretty much exclusively use for desktop video (I know *I* don't!). Check VIDEOMAKER Magazine's monthly box on how much it'll cost you to set up a basic VHS-quality nonlinear editing setup–that's what you want to do. It's not a hard&fast and tends to lean towards Mac computers, but it's a good jumping off point. Hope this helps, Tim Liebe