Help a newbie find the right capture card

[Ben Pollard-Mathias]

Hi,

Can someone recommend a capture card that will meet my requirements?

Basically, I want to capture some VHS tapes (mainly PAL, but 1 or 2 NTSC), so that I can write them to DVD-R. I want to try to keep the same quality as the original video tapes if possible.

Is there a card for about £100, that would be able to do the above? Also,
where is the best place to buy the card?

The specs of my PC are:
AMD Athlon 2000xp
512mb PC 133
80Gb IDE Hard Drive - 7200rpm
Windows XP

Thanks in advance for any help.
Ben

[Mavrick]

The ATI Radeon 8500 All-In-Wonder works great 4 me!

[Ben Pollard-Mathias]

Thanks for the tip Mavrick.

I've read some good reviews for that card, so I'll give it a go.

Thanks,
Ben

[AHaxton]

Ive seen someone with that card and they get great results. But what can I get if I want to keep my GeForce 4 Ti4200?
I want to make vcds, svcds, capture from vhs tapes and capture from satellite tv to make the vcds and svcds.
Thanks.

[SHS]

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250

[Fozzee]

Avermedia Stereo
£40/50

Fozzee

[AHaxton]

have any samples of any captures u have taken?

Thanks.

[Obiwanbde]

Hi

I recommend Hauppauge WinTV-PVR series.

AverMedia Studio(with software MPEG2 conversion) should be cost effective solution if your CPU speed is OK for waiting convertions.

I'm using Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-pci model 883 for PAL BG. It has hardware MPEG2 encoder(also capable for MPEG1 capture), with new(and beta drivers) quality is much more then expected.

Regards

[AHaxton]

Obi. I looked at a sample of a news show and a sci fi movie captured by the AVerTV Stero card and it looks awesome!! Can I see a sample of a news show or a movie u can captures real quick with your card (like a 10 mb file or less depending on your speed). If you can that would be great. Contact me on MSN. My msn name is dreamgames@barrysworld.com


Also my pc is a 120 GIG, Athlon XP 2200+, 512 MB, GeForce 4 Ti4200.