I've been having no success trying to capture VHS with the Hollywood Dazzle Bridge. It seems that minor glitches in the quality cause the bridge to distort all the video following the glitch. Cycling through the capture modes on the bridge (D/A, passthrough, A/D) usually clears up the input, but of course some damage is already done by then. I'm not alone with this problem; the very same thing is described in this review.

http://www.insanely-great.com/reviews/dazzle.html

(The review says that Dazzle reports this problem happening only with Macs, but I'm definitely not using a Mac!)

Anyway, it looks like it's time to upgrade. I see that many of the newer video cards (GeForce 4xxx) come with VIVO. Is this a good capture option? (I have an LCD monitor and I'd like to have a DVI output anyway.)
Are these a good option for capture?

I'm capturing analog NTSC VHS for conversion to SVCDs and ultimately to DVDs, so my preference is to capture AVI files (i.e. I don't care about hardware MPEG compression).

I have a DV camcorder, but I can't use it as a bridge because it's PAL.

Or, would it be better to go for something like the Canopus ADVC-100?

Any help would be much appreciated. The ideal thing would be to get the Hollywood Dazzle bridge to work, but I'm not optimistic.