Question on using Pinnacle DC10+

[bluevine]

I've been at the business of capturing old VHS tapes for a while now. By way of reference, I'm using the Pinnacle DC10+ capture card with Studio 7. I've got a Pentium 4, 3.2Ghz with 120 gig hard drive and Windows XP. Generally speaking, the older the tape the more dropped frames I have. I've tried all the usual stuff - dropping the bit rate on the capture, etc. - with mixed success. For example, I just captured 50 minutes of an old show by The Who and had 248 dropped frames which makes a lot of it pretty unwatchable. My question is that the DC10 has both digital AND analog inputs. Would I get better results if I buy some sort of converter to route the analog video output from the VCR to the converter and then output it to the PC through the Digital input?
Or should I just declare defeat and get a better capture card which would give me fewer dropped frames?
Appreciate any advice

[jimmalenko]

I have a DC10+ as well with Studio 7 and I experienced the same sort of numbers of dropped frames. It didn't matter whether the tape was brand new or 10 years old. I bit the bullet and bought an ADVC-100, which has not dropped any frames whatsoever on the exact same tapes.