USB Video Grabber, What's the best choice?

[PTsniper]

Ok, so I'm planing to buy a USB Video Grabber, but I'm not a expert in this subject, so I need help to decide what model and where shoul I buy it.
And I don't really know how to work with this, can someone tell me, pleeeeease...

Thanks.

[edDV]

Hauppauge PVR USB2
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Hauppauge_WinTV_PVR_usb2__5433274

[PTsniper]

Don't you know anything a little bit cheaper, I was thinking to buy something around of the 60€ or 40GBP.

Thanks.

[edDV]

You will pay in frustration and time spent.

More detail about your plans may help. What are you trying to do?

[PTsniper]

But how does something like this works:

[edDV]

Poorly except for minimal quality CIF 352x288.

[PTsniper]

And don't know anything a little bit cheaper but with good quality just like Hauppauge WinTV PVR-usb2 but cheaper.

Edit: I mean, I'm alreddy paying in frustration when i see this price (if I had a job I would buy it right a way, but I'm a minor )

[edDV]

PVR-150 is an internal version of that family and is cheaper. Avoid the MCE version unless you have a MCE computer. The MCE version doesn't include the software you will need.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=PVR-150+PAL&hl=en&hs=zEj&lr=&safe=off&client=firef...oogle&ct=title

The issues to consider for other products. Is your time worth spending more now to reduce future frustration and poor quality results?

Or are you only wanting simple minimal quality that is OK for a computer window but poor on a TV?

[PTsniper]

I have a DVD recorder, so I want something simple to record some TV programs when I'm on vacations or out of my house, and I want something external.

P.S. I tought I could use something that I could connect to my TV, not my computer, so correct me if I'm wrong but I think the first suggestion you made to me was something that I nedded to connect to my computer.

[edDV]

I have a DVD recorder, so I want something simple to record some TV programs when I'm on vacations or out of my house, and I want something external.

P.S. I tought I could use something that I could connect to my TV, not my computer, so correct me if I'm wrong but I think the first suggestion you made to me was something that I nedded to connect to my computer.

And why can't you use the DVD recorder that you already have?

[PTsniper]

because I want something I can use When I'm out of home, something practice, that I can connect to a laptop to extract the recordings.

[edDV]

because I want something I can use When I'm out of home, something practice, that I can connect to a laptop to extract the recordings.

OK then we have gone full circle back to the PVR USB2. It has a PAL tuner and video/audio inputs. It will hardware record a MPeg2 fle that can be played back on the laptop.

[PTsniper]

lol,

but my main question is: don't you know something with good quality and practice andddddddd cheaper than PVR USB2

[edDV]

I've been assuming you want something that actually works. Experiment and report back.

[PTsniper]

Experiment and report back.

What? Sorry but I don't understand.

[harley2ride]

In a nutshell, the PVR USB2 is the cheapest one that works. There are other more expensive ones that are also good, IE: Ulead makes a usb2 that is pretty good, but costs more... When you find a model that you think interests you, read some reviews and see what others think about it.

[PTsniper]

Thanks,
so thats the cheapest?

Thanks, thats all I needed to know.