I purchased a Pinnacle Moviebox DV (firewire) that I am expermenting with. I have found that MyDVD captures and encodes the capture to DVD compatable file with 8000 br and mpeg 1 layer 2 128 kbs audio. I DO NOT use MyDVD to make the movie because it converts the audio to PCM. I either reencode the file with TMPGEnc and author with either TMPGEnc Author or SpruceUp and burn w/Nero Express or just use TMPGEnc Author to make one large VIDEO TS file and let Pinnacle Instant Copy resize and burn to DVD-r. Still expermenting but looks very promising. ............ harrymj3