Capture quality problem

[MrSprout]

I recently spend £199 on a firewire capture device for my mac. The Miglia Director's Cut SCART It got good reviews so I thought that it would be much better than my friend's cheaper capture devices. However the quality of my captures suck. I've hosted a 7mb 2 second clip on my website you can download that here (right click save as).

Notice how the text and the image are blurry. This is coming off a games console at 720 x 576 and at 25fps over a SCART connection, which my device is designed for. It's useless as it is right now. Could you offer me any solutions? I captured that clip in Final Cut Pro and the reason it's of a video game is because I need this device for filming video games (for a site I staff).

I'm fairly sure my capture should be better than this, i've seen devices costing half as much far outperform my card in terms of quality. Someone please help

-MrSprout

Edit: For some reason it's downloading as a .txt file, just open it as a .dv file and it should work.

[edDV]

It looks low pass filtered. Probably a composite PAL connection and a poor PAL decoder.

Try to connect it S-Video if possible. That should improve luminance resolution somewhat.

[AntnyMD]

I cant help with the actual problem, only a comment:
If you've seen devices costing half as much do very good quality, why did you buy something other than those devices?

Also, arent video games upconverted from VCD-like resolutions anyway?

[MrSprout]

I'm not sure what you mean by upconverted. Sorry, I've seen videos with MUCH better quality of the same game. I don't know why it's so blurry. I spent this much on the capture device because I thought it would be better, i've been let down though, and I don't think the quality is supposed to be this bad.

[edDV]

Did you try connecting S-Video?

The filter ahead of the composite PAL Y/C separator is probably causing the blurring.

[MrSprout]

The filter ahead of the composite PAL Y/C separator is probably causing the blurring.

Could you explain that please, I'm not familiar with this technical jargon