Hi,

I am a newbie at this and am loving every page of your website!! I have 2 questions - I was going to pose them in 2 separate places but I think they are too related to separate.

1. I have 3 devices that I believe will do video capturing. One is a Buzz Multimedia device (SCSI based), the second is a Dazzle Digital Video Creator (no, not the 80 or 100 that I have read the horrible reviews from but is the USB version of the parallel port system) and the third the WinFast TV2000 XP tuner. (The first 2 items were given to me) I have heard that the Buzz "box" does a good job of capturing and that the SCSI bus moves data faster than the ide and is also very likely to get around the Macrovision issue . Which one do you think I should use? (I do not believe I am doing something illegal. I live in China now and many of my friends have videotapes but no VCR's to play them on. I believe it is legal to tranfer something that you have bought to another media for your own use.

2. I am hoping to be able to do my video capturing using my "entertainment computer" which is only an AMD Athlon 800 Mhz. It has 512 MB and an 80 GB, 7200 rpm hard drive and a nic. Is this adequate for capturing? Would a 900 mhz processor be a noticeable upgrade? I do have a 18 GB SCSI 10K hard drive. Would it help this computer do videocapturing or would this SCSI hard drive be more useful in my XP2700 where I plan to do the the rest of the processing? Should I upgrade my 2700 system to 512 MB?

I will be doing the following: transferring videotapes to SVCD's or DVD's; downloading various sound media from the web and making CD's of it. I may, from time to time have to transfer something from digital media back to a videotape. Most of the videotapes will be an hour or less, but some will be more than 2 hours long.


Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.