Terratec Cameo Convert FireWire

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I would need some advice about the Terratec Cameo Convert FireWire...
I'd need a device to convert old VHS to VCD (or SVCD or DVD) and I lost enough of my time with the Dazzle DVC-80 (I know, it is crap, but, hey it was a present, so at least I had to try).
Reading this forum I almost made my mind on The Canopus ADVC-100, but I couldn't find it in a store close to my place (I live in Italy) and insted I found availability of the Terratec...I saw in the "capture cards" list only one review and, before opening the wallet for 280 Euros, I would like a little more advice from all you experts...

I have a Toshiba Notebook, 2.5 GHz, 512 MB RAM and 40 Gigs HD and i just want to convert old PAL VHS to digital (I know a bit about VCD, SVCD and DVD and got all the necessary software, so my problem is just to get the good hardware...)

thnak you all for reading this

[kingbuzzi]

Ciao,
possiedo la cameo convert della terratec e la uso principalmente per trasferire VHS su file AVI nel PC attraverso la firewire.
E' davvero un ottimo convertitore analogico/digitale infatti non rilevo alcuna differenza con quello che il videoregistratore riproduce.
ho un pc con scheda madre gigabyte sin xp 1394, processoreentium 2.4 GH, 1 GB di RAM, 2 hard disk 80GB IBM e 120GB Maxtor (su cui catturo i file video).
cmq ti consiglio di valutare anche altre schede di acquisizione, magari anche più economiche, ho visto che la stessa terratec ha messo sul mercato nuovi convetitori.

Fabio

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ciao, Fabio e grazie....

well, I also want to ask about another capture card: the Cameo 400 AV mobile, connected via PCMCIA to a notebook...any news anybody? I've seen that nobody posted experiences with it on the "capture cards" list,
I've read that it captures with MPEG 1/2 encoding, so it is different from DV capturing...
anybody can comment on capturing via PCMCIA vs. FireWire?

Thanks to everybody for your time....