Page 1 of Reccomend a cheap & good capture card ????

Hi

I have been given the task of converting all of parents vhs camcorder movies to dvd and need advice on a good capture card for around £50.

All suggestions appreciated

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This item was edited on Saturday, 12th March 2005, 10:18

For £50, you are going to get a `software` capture card. In other words, the card relies on your cpu to do the encoding/capture.

From about £70, you can get `hardware` capture cards (Like Hauppauge 150/250/350)-these cards have an onboard chip which handle the capturing/encoding and give much better quality results-especially at DVD frame size.

Better still-quality wise, time wise and `ease` wise-is a standalone DVD recorder-I know they aren`t in that price range yet, but Sainsbury`s did have some v.cheap re-cond Mico`s that were pretty close (Though whether they have any left now, I don`t know).

If you do want to go with a sub £50 capture card, then one I`d recommend is the one they sell in Aldi-the Tevion Xpert 734. The card has two inputs (composite and S Video) as well as a TV input - and it comes with an excellent suite of software that makes capturing ,editing and authoring to DVD very easy. The software alone is worth a damn site more than the £29 Aldi were asking for this the last time they were on sale. You may find that it`s not in stock in most stores, it is a while since they actually got them in, but the two I go in both had them on display last week.

If not, the Hauppauge range are all pretty decent