Canopus ADVC 100 Converter ?

[coda304]

Can anyone comment on the quality that the Canopus ADVC converter can produce from VHS or Digital Satellite?

To my understanding both the ADVC 100 & the ADVC 500 use the proprietary DV codec from Canopus. Will this mean that the converters resolution/bitrate will be locked? What is the bitrate that the DV codec uses, and dose Canopus use a standard or non-standard bitrate?

I would love to see some motion samples or screen shots!

TIA

[emigrant]

I use an ADVC-100 to capture from DirecTV, quality is outstanding. It's not as proprietary as you think it is, in fact I generally wind up using the Microsoft DV stuff and it's all happy. Having a small problem right now getting iuVCR to cooperate, but my MPEG2's and my burned DVDs of my DirecTV captures are fantastic.

I typically capture to .avi then edit and re-encode as MPEG-2, but the direct MPEG captures are awesome. I just don't like commercials. 8^)