Well, Jeff, there has not been a rush of advise posted here. hmmmm.

So far, and unless someone recommends otherwise, I am leaning toward purchasing a Datavideo DAC-100 (approx. $200. or less) (This was recommended in a 2004 article in MacWorld mag.) Video conversion boxes seem to range betwee $100 and $10,000. But this relatively inexpensive one has gotten good 'reviews.' (By connecting to a VCR and Mac, included software will covert the video to a digital file. And then, it seems to be a matter of usng my Toast/Popcorn to burn the file onto a DVD..... a bit time consuming and requiring a lot of hard disk space.)

My search for info seems to indicate that the conversion box will not work on copy-protected videos. (This may only apply to some of the more recent video titiles.) But the way around this is to use... say... Apple's Final Cut or Adobe' Premiere to 'capture' the content of the tape. (It's been a while since I've done this, but, my recollection is that it works rather well...)

(If this is the route-to-go, I've spoken to two friends who will share the cost of the converter.. and/or, it can be sold at ebay, where 'used' boxes are selling for very near the purchase price....) (I'm thinking that after getting all videos onto DVDs, the converter becomes useless to me....)

Hopefully, someone who has gone through this process, will come out of their closet and post some advise here......