What a wealth of information - I am so pleased I found this site. Thank you again for all your help. I searched around and sure enough I have an svideo cable, HOWEVER, the VCR, which was new last year, does not have a connection (either back or front) for this cable. It only has scart connections. So am I back to square one?
The new PC arrived today. I am going to transfer one of the 80Gb hard drives from this one to the new PC for ease of transfer of data so, yes, I could use it for every day work and keep the new 200Gb for digital photography. Thank you for that - I would not have thought of it.
By the way what does the 'S' in svideo stand for.
Thank you again for your time and tremendous amount of help.
Peg.