Since I am new to this whole concept, I need your expertise on adding quality photos.

I have a combinantion Sony VHS and DVD Player (2002). I also have a dated Dell 4000 Laptop Computer, with Windows Millenium (ME). That's my hardware. Oh and a digital camera, which does not do a great job taking a picture of the TV-screen (unless there is an extreme close-up of the car).

"Stronghold" had mentioned that he has a Panasonic Video Recorder NV-HV61, connected to a DMR-E55 DVD Recorder. The VHS Videotapes are transfered to DVD Disc, then captured on his PC with "Power DVD" while in still/paused mode.

I do not know if my 2002 Sony Combination DVD-VHS has the abiltiy to Copy VHS to DVD. I am confused on this whole method of connecting the output from the VCR/DVD player to the computer. I wonder if my old Laptop would be able to do this.

What is "Power DVD"? What is a "Video-In-Card"? Can I use any of this equipment with my Laptop and it's operating system, ME? What's your recomendations? I do not want to spend a lot. Thanks.

Actually in the system used by Stronghold you only put the recorded DVD in the PC, you do not connect anything to the PC.
PowerDVD is one of the software that can be used to read DVDs on the PC.
First you should check if your Sony player can record on DVD-R or DVD+R, or if it can only read them. In that last case, you would need some video-in device. There are some that can be connected by USB or fireware rather than having to plug an additional card in the PC, which would be a better solution for a laptop

That's good to know, I guess. I happen to have a Samsung DVD-R120, that I received as a gift, but I can't hook it up to anything, because my TV is on a satellite system(Direct TV sucks, FYI), plus I've got a Compaq Presario 5000 with two CD-Rom drives, one of which is a broken recordable drive. I was planning to get a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive to replace it, but now I see that I may have to get something else instead.