In rec.aviation.piloting, on Sun 02 Sep 2007 03:04:00p, Newps
wrote:

That's ridiculous. The VCR out is analog. If you've ever had your
computer convert analog video to digital you know how long the process
takes. And how many people have an analog video capture card in their
PC? With a digital camcorder you'll need a firewire card, commonly
known as an IEEE 1394. Lots of computers have those as they serve
other purposes. The digital camcorder, and they're all digital
nowadays, does the converting on the fly.

It takes however long the original video is. I've captured quite a few
videos off my satellite receiver using just the standard composite outputs
and stored the videos as MPG format files on my PC. I don't think the the
digital camcorder can do it any faster since the limiting time for my
method is the speed of the original video source.