Not point out the obvious, but there are hundreds of cameras that you can plug directly in to your TV/VCR. My Kodak and Panasonic digital cameras will plug in to my TV (if I ever find those damn cables). Any one of my security cameras will work directly on my TV, with much better picture than most webcams I've seen. Seems like any obviously useless endeavor, perhaps you left out a few details on what you hope to gain by building this. Sounds sort of like a school project, where the usefulness, isn't important, just the build processes. I got a 'B' once, for a project I never could get to work, just had to write it up and show my work.