Is this good?

[4A-GE]

hi, thought about RT2500. What do you think about it. I know it's expensive about $1000. But has anyone used this capture card from Matrox. Is suppose to very good. But I wonder?

[homerpez]

It's supposed to be a prettt good board...

I haven't seen it up-close yet, I own an ATI AIW Radeon board... but it would have to be a LOT better to be worth the $1000 price tag, in my opinion... since the Radeon seems to me to be a very good capture board (once you overcome driver issues and run Windows 2000), and at 720x480 max res MPEG-2, I bet a fast 1.4 Ghz computer with ATA-100 drives could accomplish full DVD specs at high quality... I can do 640x480 MPEG-2 at 4MB/sec with no issues on a slower computer (maybe <1% dropped frames, due to a sputter on a drive or something). All in all, a good card!

I mean, you could probably purchase a whole video system (Video capture, Hard drive, MB, CPU, etc etc) for the same price as the Matrox board itself! So, it had better be near PERFECT for that $$$$!

My former boss (at another building now) has that Matrox board, and he has absolutely no clue what to do with it. Maybe it'll become enough of a "boat-anchor" that he'll let you have it at a discount?