The ADVC-100 is, in my opinion, the coolest thing I've seen. I've captured many, many hours with never a dropped frame. It looks good and captures good audio. It does all of the work, leaving the CPU for other things. It's not uncommon for me to have TMPGenc running at the same time as a capture while I'm surfing the web with no problems (p4 2GHz). Just be sure to capture to a physical drive other than your C: drive. For the price (got mine for $250) I don't think you can do better.