I have a birthday coming up and I think I might be getting a DVD burner. Currently I have a CD rom drive and an empty slot below where the burner would go. The reason for the burner is because the majority of my hard drive space has been consumed by the anime I've downloaded and I'm desperate to free up the drives. I can use the CD burner, of course, but each cd only holds a pidley 3 or so episodes and it would take me hundreds of cd's and an unthinkable amount of time to save it all that way.
One of the primary reasons that I'd like to make room on my drives is that I've wanted to try my hand at making an amv for years and have a number of ideas that have been bouncing around my head without outlet for too long.
ErMaC and AD's guide has me concerned, though. The DVD-ripping section appears to assume that I have a DVD rom, and the Analogue Capture Guide assumes I'm ripping from VHS or LD. I'm getting the impression that, ideally, I should be installing a DVD rom where the burner is likely to go. But without the burner to save stuff off in bulk, my space is nil.
So is a DVD rom fairly critical to get the best possible quality footage? If so I'll probably have to wait until I can afford to replace my CD rom with a CD/DVD combo.
While we're on the subject I'd appreciate any advice on what other upgrades I should aim for as money allows. Currently I have:
AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
1.04 GHz
512MB Ram
And my largest harddrive is just over 52GB.
I realize that I should probably double the RAM, but what else? I don't have money to spare but I want to know what to shoot for and do as much as I can in the meantime.
Thanks for your input.
