My frustrations are apparantly over with two products. Giga Pocket (Sony) would not capture copywrited material, Moviebox DV (firewire) kept freezing during capture. I finally, in desperation, hooked my VCR to Moviebox DV's composite inlets and Moviebox DV's composite outlets to my Sony Gigabox composite inlets. Best capture I have ever seen, bar none, amazing, at last. ............ harrymj3