Laptop capture solution for both US-Europe(Kiev)??

[robtom1966]

Hello,

I'm new to the group. The size of the forum is overwhelming, please excuse me if this question has been answered.

I travel a bit between Kiev, Ukraine and home in the U.S. I would like to record TV shows in Kiev and take them home to the U.S. Of course, the NTSC standard in the U.S. is not compatible with the PAL(or SECAM?) flavor used in Ukraine.

My laptop, a Pro-Star 8880 (AKA Clevo 8880 AKA Sagar 8880) has a Phillips NTSC tuner card in an expansion slot. It captures with adequate quality, and the software is also adequate. It has 2 40 GB HDDs, 512 MB RAM, and a 2.2 GHZ P-4 CPU. This laptop has firewire and USB 1.1. I don't like to use the USB because it's VERY slow compared to the firewire.

I also have a desktop in Kiev with a 2.4 GHZ Celeron "Prescott" CPU, 512MB, and an 80 GB WD 7200 HDD. This PC has USB 2.x but no firewire.

3 possible? solutions:

1. An external capture "box." If "dis-was-kwiss-miss" my best selection would be external with BOTH USB2.x and firewire connections, have NTSC/PAL(or SECAM?) worldwide capability, cable/digital/TV-broadcast capability. Oh, and a remote! smile.gif What is out there on the market that has good reviews.

2. I see plenty of highly recommended internal cards on the market. I guess if I must, I can get an internal capture card for my desktop that does both NTSC and PAL(or SECAM?). Then I can open the PC and take the card with me home to the U.S. when I stay for extended periods of time, and want the use of the better capture card.

3. A good performing PAL(or SECAM?)-to-NTSC signal converter. Then I could put the PAL(or SECAM?)-to-NTSC converter in line from the cable signal to my laptop's NTSC capture/TV tuner. Does such an animal exist?

Rob
from Kiev

[Baldrick]

one topic is enough.
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bump your old topic if noone replies after some days.