I believe V8 also had these functions in at least the deluxe version. In EMC 9 Media Import does have a picture improvement function during capture as does Video Wave when you do editing. You have a Media Center computer so you should be able to use that TV card for input without buying another device. You may find that you may not be able to capture some old commercial VHS tapes that were protected with Macrovision or other schemes. Disconnect some other USB devices from the hub when capturing, if you have to. If USB, don't use on an overload USB hub, or you may have problems. There are other companies that make USB or internal cards that do about the same thing as does the ADS USB unit. Using mpg is plenty goood for old VHS tapes in most cases. The ADS device captures as mpg, and there are several settings you can use depending on the quality and length of your tape. It takes a bit of time to learn how to use the capture device best, but to me it was well worth it. I found that the corrected videos that were captured to the HD then usually required no editing, and you may use a straight Roxio burn to DVD without having to go through an editing stage that sometimes can take a lot of time. The ADS device will capture DV sources such as some cameras also. When you are satisfied, you then start capture that goes just as fast as when you make no such corrections. It has programs that allow you to view and correct color, tint, contrast and several other things as you play the tape. I used the ADS Instant DVD + DV external USB device to capture the videos. Even professional programs can be slow in the digital domain to do all of this once the tape is captured to the HD. If you can make these corrections in the analog mode as the tape is captured to the HD, you can save a huge amount of time. VHS tapes tend to fade in color over decades of storage(color involves the higher frequencies, which are the first to go). Some older tapes needed considerable correction of color, tint, contrast etc. I had hundreds of VHS tapes, some very old, that I burned to DVD. Use Video Wave to do any editing of the captured video and then use MyDVD to set up menus and burn the video to a DVD. Use any of the capture (import) functions to capture the video to your hard drive as an mpg2 or preferably an AVI file (if you have the free space on your hard drive.). The key word is not copy, it is capture (or import).

Macrovision vhs to digital file