Which USB capture device for recording movies from TV?

[jagabo]

You would also need 2 computers, one to play the video and one to record it.

With a hardware encoder you may be able to get away with a single computer. I used to do that occasionally with my Hauppauge PVR-250 and a graphics card with s-video output.

However, even if it works, you may not be pleased with the quality of the resulting captures. Computer screens typically do not look good when downconverted to 720x576 resolution and interlaced.

Some examples: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/283861-VGA-to-S-video?p=1756748&viewfull=1#post1756748

[Bencuri]

This converter solution would be okay.

The quality doesn't seem good indeed.

[usually_quiet]

You would also need 2 computers, one to play the video and one to record it.

With a hardware encoder you may be able to get away with a single computer. I used to do that occasionally with my Hauppauge PVR-250 and a graphics card with s-video output.

The Terratec TV stick uses software encoding, so the OP will need a different capture device to have hardware encoding available.