So... like about a billion people out there I often contemplate starting my own retro video game show on Youtube. Because I'm a guy with opinions, so why not? However, in my quest to do what everyone else is doing I'm not quite sure what exactly I should be focusing equipment wise. I'm on a seriously tight budget, and maybe that's enough to not bother at all, but I'm still curious about how much I might be able to get away with.
Getting gameplay footage from my TV seems straight forward. Get a DVD-Recorder, plug my video game console AV cables through it, and record everything in an format I can easily edit (AVI for use with Windows Movie Maker, because I am a clown). But maybe there are things I'm not taking into consideration, like... do I need a DVD recorder that has AV inputs and outputs? S-Video support? Will my recorded footage be easy to manipulated on my PC, or will it be in some kind of $600 movie editing software to use? Is there a digital recorder that can do all this without needing to fumble with DVDs at all?
Like I said, I'm really hoping to find a dirty cheap DVD-Recorder at a Flea Market or Thrift store and just roll. But my gut says its never that easy. So I turn to getting advice from those who might do this sort of thing for fun.