Since writing my last question at 8.30 I have done the following. I found a 6 pin cable adapter with connections on the other side for a red, a white and yelow cable along with an SVideo connection. I set it all up using the cable that was supplied with my digital video camera and plugged it in. I set the VCR to play and the dig cam to play and connected it to the PC. (It will not work without an empty mini tape in the dig cam). Nothing happened. I swapped the settings in the cam menu from 'AV in' to 'S in' - still nothing. However this is what it says in the dig camera handbook and I quote: THE PROVIDED CABLE ADAPTER ACCEPTS ONLY OUTPUT SIGNALS FROM THIS CAMCORDER. TO USE THIS CAMCORDER AS A RECORDER USE A COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE CABLE ADAPTER.
This is where I am really puzzled as I have not a clue what they mean and I have emailed JVC to ask them but they haven't had the courtsey to reply.
However one piece of good news in my tail of woe - I have been able to capture the film from the small tapes in the old video camera through the new one and into the PC. I am really pleased about that as most of the work is on small tapes - there is just one on a large VHS tape. So if it will capture it from the old CAMERA why on earth can the stupid thing not do the same but from the VCR???
Are all you good people out there sick and tired of my questions? I hope not and that every time I get a helpful reply to one of my questions it hopefully helps someone else. Thank you all again for all your help.
And thank you bengal for telling me about SVideo.
Peg.