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OT: Transfer VHS to DVD using PC

Although off-topic, my question is sort of relevant to this group in
that it is prompted by my wishing to buy a PVR. (As to which one, I'll
leave that to a future, fully on topic, question!).  Consequently I'll
need to at least store the VCR away in a cupboard, if not get rid of
it altogether, as there won't be room for it alongside the new
gadget.  This won't be a problem on the whole as it is currently used
mainly for time shifting so will become almost redundant.  However,
there are a few VHS tapes that I would like to transfer onto DVD.  As
I don't plan to buy a DVD recorder but do have DVD burning facilities
in my PC, I'm thinking that some sort of video capture via the PC is
the way to go.  I have been able to find two basic approaches:

1. USB video capture device that I plug the VCR into and it produces
some kind of digitised output.  There are a few alternatives out
there.  Most come with some kind of editing/DVD creation software.
Reviews are very mixed.  Overall I get the impression that none are
particularly good and the bundled software is pretty ropey.

2. Internal card to be installed inside the PC.  These seem to be
variations on TV tuner cards - I haven't found anything specifically
for the job I want but at least some of them seem that they will do it
as an extra.  On the whole these seem to be more expensive than the
external devices, but I suspect this is because of the additional
functionality.  However, I wonder whether the fact that they are
internal devices provides significant benefit to make the extra
expense worthwhile.

I'm looking for reasonable quality without problems such as losing
sync with the sound.  Some of the tapes may be a couple of hours or
so.  I will want to do some basic editing.  e.g. some of these tapes
contain sections that are used for teaching by a family member.
Sometimes these sections are in the middle of a load of irrelevant
stuff that we won't keep; sometimes there are a bunch of sections such
that it would be nice to split them up into individual DVD items.
However, there isn't a huge amount of this sort of thing and it
doesn't have to be too precise in terms of the chopping or very snazzy
in terms of menu presentation or anything.

One thing I'm not sure about is whether my PC graphics card is
relevant to any of this.  My current PC is one I recently built so has
decent processor and memory but I am currently using the integrated
graphics provided by the motherboard. This has been absolutely fine
for everything I have needed it for so far.

I don't have so many VHS tapes that I want to spend too much on this -
£100 is probably my limit.

Recommendations for hardware / software and any tips will be
appreciated.

Thanks.
~~
Bob

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