Most recently I used a Panasonic HDD/DVD recorder. Scart from the video player and record either to a RAM DVD to edit on my computer (the recording format is basically MPEG2) or to the recorder's HDD from where it can be edited and written to a recordable DVD with the onboard Panasonic editor/burner.
I've done the same with capture cards in the past, an ATI AIW x800 and a Hollywood+ thing, but the results weren't as good. Then again, these weren't especially good cards.
Edit: it occurs to me that if you videos are commercial, then my recorder method would probably fail as Panasonic (at least) pays close attention to nonsense like macrovision.
EDITED: 13 Sep 2011 12:43 by WILLIAMA