Turtle Beach Video Advantage PCI card

[vlakslee]

I was considering purchasing this card and using it to capture commercial VHS tapes to my computer BUT before I go there does anyone know if this has a chip in it to block capturing commercial videos? I just want to put those tapes I have onto DVD that will never make it to DVD due to limited interest from the public. Thanks for the help.

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Does it do hardware mpeg-2 encoding? If not, then probably the answer is no.

[vlakslee]

This card can use the following to capture: uncompressed AVI, DV type 1 and 2, MPEG1, and MPEG2. I read a review and it did not mention anything about this card blocking commercial videos but then they probably wouldn't if it didn't. Anyone know anything about this card?

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From Tom's Hardware review of the card
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/video/20050604/video_advantage-02.html
"The Turtle Beach Video Advantage does one thing most other capture cards won't: the drivers and software both allow conversion of copy-protected video from an analog source to DVD-compliant digital formats. Many other products (including those from ATI) detect analog copy-protection and refuse to allow capture.

But what the device can't do is MPEG/MPEG2 hardware compression, as it does not include hardware for this function."