Finally, I am jumping out of Pinnacle bandwagon. I have Pinnacle Studio Deluxe 7 and the version 9 isn't much different than what I have now (was able to browse thru the new version, only one new button). Now, the PCI or something just died on me.

I am now looking for a new system and need help in selecting which one. I read the reviews/comments in here (capture cards) and browsed the videoguys.com. Seems just about every product has "major" complaint (I can understand that most with problems are the ones who posts and the rest just happily go on without posting).

At first, I jumped into PYRO A/V Link, but seems many are complaining with Adobe Premiere Elements (with only 720 x 480 available and no other settings). I have Adobe PhotoShop Elements 2.0 and am happy with it (mainly use the red-eye and crop, that's about it). So, maybe the Premiere Elements would be OK for me? I am only working with VHS (analog) to computer, edit, then record back to VHS (and VCD/DVD).

Then I checked DataVideo DAC-100. Looks good, but then bad comments about it in here?

Then the Canopus ADVC-50. More bad comments? Also, people push that we should go with higher model (55 or 110 or whatever)? Does this have NO analog outputs? Model 110 looks good but $300?

Anyway, here's the list I like to get:

*input AND output analog videos
*have plug for digital video (for future digital camcorder)
*would like hardware compression, but not a must
*software included with hardware (or continue with Pinnacle 9)
*connection not important, would be nice to use firewire/USB2
*$200 range...

I have AMD 2500+ Barton, 1G regular RAM, GF4 128MB, Windows XP (with seperate SP2 CD), etc. I have about 7 big AVI (DV format) of analog videos that I haven't finish editing and record back to VHS/DVD yet. Also, I am planning to buy a DVD burner (as of this time, NEC 3520A)

Anything else I could be looking into?

Chuck