VHS capture on a budget?

[miffokarnevalen]

I've been wanting to convert my old VHS tapes to digital for a while, but every time I've been browsing through different capture devices pretty much all user reviews have stated that they suck and most people can't get them to work at all etc etc, so...

What shoudl I be looking at. I'm not expecting to get "professional" quality, but want to preserve some recordings with at least fairly good quality.

I've been looking at Pinnacle Dazzle (what are the differences between the various DVC101, DVC103 etc?) and MovieBox HD and the Terratec Grabster series, for example. Will they be able to give decent quality? The various devices I've been looking at costs about €60-100 here in sweden.
The hauppauge cards all use hardware encoding? Are they good better than pinnacle or terratec devices?

I also wonder about hardware accelerated capture devices vs software ones. For me it seems like software encoding is more flexible in which type of encoding one wants and also you would be able to use lossless encodings, which would be better if you want to try to enhance the picture with different filters or maybe even if you just want to deinterlace them for watching on the computer?
I understand that it will take some CPU power to compress highly compressed formats as divx och AVCHD on the fly, but I don't feel that I would want that anyway.

One specific question on the Grabster AV350MX which has a scart connector... Does that mean that it is able to use the RGB output from the scart on the VCR? from what I can tell that would give the best quality?

I'm very thankful for all guidance!

Edit:
I'm using Win7 64-bit and it's pal VHS tapes that are to be captured.

Edit2:
The Terratec G3 also is in the right price range...

[hech54]

Hauppauge PVR350 or 250 for me.....but I'm using XP Pro so not sure if they will work.

[aedipuss]

it would be helpful if you filled in your computer spec in your profile. some devices only work with certain computers.

even things like this easycap work ok - http://www.amazon.com/EasyCAP-Audio-Capture-Surveillance-Dongle/dp/B000Z4AQFU/ref=pd_sim_e_4

or got a friend with an old miniDV cam they don't use anymore? most had analog to digital passthrough.

[miffokarnevalen]

My computer is an old "scratchbuilt" AMD Athlon Dualcore X64 3GHz (6000+ or whatever they called it), with 4GM of RAM. I don't have all details atm since I'm not at home. I can fill in with more details, if necessary, when I get home tomorow.
I bought one of the easycap devices a while ago, but could not get any of my computers to recognize it at all. Only a message in systray that the USB device has failed. Maybe it's faulty or I got one of the copies out there... I got "scared off" of them, though...

[aedipuss]

they do have a nasty reputation of having difficult drivers to get installed and working, but are dirt cheap.