Well, if you don't already have either 1) a CD burner and a regular DVD player or 2) a video card with TV out, yes, you're going to have to spend some money. If you have none of those things, I'd probably have to agree with Quu- a Hollywood Plus card would probably be the cheapest of the options from a complete lack of them. You can get one for $45 plus shipping
here or search through
Pricewatch to find another place if you don't want to order one from there. I got one of these for my little brother's computer to help pull some of the load off its older processor, and later to output to his TV, it works quite nice.
If you do have TV output on your video card- it's simple, look at your documentation and figure out how to enable it, hook up the output to your VCR, and play the highest quality file of it you've got back with something like ZoomPlayer. Of course, this may not be the highest quality. The other option, if you have a burner and a DVD player capable of playing them is to make a SVCD (or, if your player just won't play them, a VCD, but the quality will be rather lacking). Information on both making them and what DVD players can play them can be found at
VCDHelp.
Hopefully one of these will help!