OK,.. it is been over a week, just searching for the right capture card, and now im fully lost, and not even sure that i can convert my DV tape to svcd (mpeg2) smoothly, in a reasonable time, and be able to fool around and do some editing..

i currently have a PIII 733, 20 GB HD, 192 MB Ram, Intel origianl mother board w/built in graphic, win XP OS, (no ieee 1394 connection yet) and ofcourse my nice new shinny sony PC 9 cam.

What do i want? very simple, i would like to make a decent quality svcd, and maybe later a dvd (when i get the dvd burner) in as short time as possible. As for the price range,:) yes, as cheap as possible, and definitely not over $400

Thanks,