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  1. I guess the subject line says it all... I'd like to hear some folks' thoughts on the Canopus ADVC-100 (~$266) versus the Miglia Director's Cut Take 2 ($389 at Macs4all). For anyone doing a forum search or casually reading this post and wondering what in tarnation I'm talking about, these are analog to digital convertors.

    I've read a number of reviews on both, but unfortunately can't find any side-by-side comparisons since the ADVC-100 is a bit older than the Director's Cut Take 2 (in most of the articles/reviews they compare the former to the original DC aka "Take 1"). I know three major differences are 1) the price, 2) The ADVC-100 only has one set of outputs and 3) The ADV-100 requires a trick to turn macrovision off.

    Major concerns are DV capture quality, output to VHS quality, DVD-ROM to VHS capability/quality and ease of use on a PC running XP Professional with one Maxtor 80G 7200RPM HD (soon to be joined by a 120G, ditto, once I decide on a convertor).

    Thanks very much in advance for your input.

    --=Maj
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    I'd never heard of the Miglia product until now but then I'd never heard of the Canopus either until I saw it on this site and I'm glad I did because it's worked great for me so far. They seem to be pretty similar devices and both are recognized by your computer as a DV cam so both should be about as easy to set up and use as anything you could get for this purpose, though the Miglia can be powered from the firewire connection and the Canopus requires it's own power supply, the Miglia has more analog outputs but the Canopus has more analog inputs and more firewire connections. The Miglia has 2 S-Video and 2 composite outputs, 1 S-Video and 1 composite input, 1 6-pin firewire port and a headphone jack. The Canopus has 1 S-Video and 1 composite output, 2 S-Video, 1 composite and 1 audio mini jack input, 1 6-pin firewire port and 1 4-pin firewire port. Looking at the Miglia site there does seem to be a rare instance where the audio and video can get out of sync as far as I know that can never happen with the Canopus. Miglia also says it successfully ignores macrovision in "most" cases, Canopus just says their box recognizes macrovision but I've tried the "trick" and it works however I have no idea if there are any instances when it doesn't. For some reason Miglia says it won't capture B&W footage and I have captured B&W broadcasts of old movies/TV shows with my Canopus. I suppose what really matters is the quality of the capture and short of buying them both and making direct comparisons I don't know how you'll ever be sure of that. The Canopus uses a Canopus DV codec and all I could find about the Miglia is that it converts to "standard DV" so maybe if you could find out exactly what it uses for the conversion then you could find a comparison. Good luck.
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