Karl, To accomplish this, you will need a computer with a video digitizing card. I have used the Matrox Rainbow Runner Suite for digitizing video from VHS/SVHS tape. You can then used Adobe Premier to edit/join tape segments, add audio/narration and produce your own digital video file. (AVI) If all you want to do is digitize the video, you don't need Adobe Premiere as the video card will come with a program to capture video to a file. You will then need to write a computer program to display the video when a button is "clicked" as you describe. Your program could manage several short video clips. This all depends on the size of the hard drive you put in the computer and the length of the videos you are playing as well as the compression scheme used to digitize the video. It is possible that you may need to equip the computer with an AV rated hard drive. This is a high-speed hard drive designed to play back video smoothly. You will need a computer with a P-100 or higher processor, the video card will cost around $400, and an AV-rated HD usually runs $2x to $3x more then an IDE drive of the same capacity. Matrox has a listing of it's products at www.matrox.com Mark C. Vang Freya Ventures www.freyaventures.com [log in to unmask] ************ We have one exhibit on the floor which includes a short videotape in a TV-VCR combination which aotomatically rewinds and plays again. I am preparing an exhibit for which I am considering showing the "movie" via computer display so that clicking a button (or touching a "button" on the screen) will start a digitized version of the movie playing from the hard drive of the computer, or restart it at the beginning, or change to a different movie. Does anyone have experience with equipment which gives the viewer more control when viewing short video material related to an exhibit? Or recommendations about what kind of equipment to use for repetitive playing of a short video? ------------------------------