Can anybody recommend a good, inexpensive USB capture box?

[royphil345]

Hi,

My cousin has a laptop and wants to do video capture for DVD. Not looking for the absolute highest video quality, just something that works well with no issues.

Haven't been keeping my eye on the outboard capture devices because I use a desktop. Don't know what's out there.

The laptop is newer, so speed shouldn't be an issue. Operating System is Windows XP. Not sure if the USB ports are 1.0 or 2.0 though.

Thanks much for any help!!!
Roy

[Fred©]

Well,

I live in Brazil and bought in USA an ADS DVD Xpress USB video capture card... really cheap and efficient... works with USB 1.1 and 2.0, but in 1.1 mode bitrate is up to 4 Mb/s only, while in USB 2.0 port I can capture up to 9 Mb/s...

Fred©

[jameshgross]

I use the Hauppauge WinTV PVR USB2.0. Very good system.

[glockjs]

have a dazzle 80 layin around here somewhere...only used it a handful of times, it did alright once i got it working...pain in the booty to actually make it work right though

[skistyle]

Just wondering if anyone would add their input since November.

I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 running XP SP2
4 - M CPU 2.20Ghz w/1 GB RAM

I have a USB 2.0 and a Firewire port, but want to transfer from VHS and DirecTivo.

[briandugas]

I use the ADS Tech Instant DVD 2.0. Works wonders. I would recommend it.

[snafu099]

http://www.adstech.com

check out the specs to match needs
I have the IDVD-2 whch also has the ability to output mpg to analog
DvdExpress does not have output