Hopefully this is the right forum for this thread?!

I was wondering, I have a bunch of stuff I recorded off TV (especially around celebration I/The Phantom Menace era's) that I would like to convert to a digital format. Can anybody point me in the right direction for purchasing reasonably priced hardware to do so? I know there is a lot of options out there but I was hoping you guys would have some recommendations...

I'm sure once I get that far I'll have further questions about actually ripping it in the best quality/ratios/frame rate/etc...

THANKS!