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Offline Blade
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Opinion: Capture Cards
« on: December 22, 2005, 06:14:16 AM »
I\'m looking for a good, inexpensive capture card for transferring VHS to DVD.

There\'ve been threads on this in the distant past.. but I figured I\'d poll you guys again..
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« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2005, 06:23:09 AM »
DVR?
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« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2005, 06:32:26 AM »
DVR? You mean like TiVo?

I don\'t have one. I just have a few VHS decks and some tapes I want digitized.
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« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2005, 07:33:44 AM »
Take any mini DV camera and go into the firewire port of your computer.

Plug the VHS into it.  

Done.
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« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2005, 08:12:17 AM »
I would need a Mini-DV camera for that. :)
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« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2005, 08:34:05 AM »
you mean you don\'t have one?  Otherwise, i\'d use a TV capture card (I have the cheapest ATI one someone gave me a few years back, works great)
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« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2005, 08:47:31 AM »
Yeah, I\'m looking for opinions on which capture card to get.. so that\'s helpful JBean.

Which ATi one was it?
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« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2005, 10:21:45 AM »
it\'s an ATi TV Wonder or something along those lines.  I don\'t think they make it anymore, but I don\'t think they make my model anymore.  Although for some wierd reason I get a really crummy images with my coax input, but if I use the tuner on my VCR it\'s crystal clear (composite input).  

I also have a Nvidia graphics card and they don\'t conflict at all, if that was a concern of yours or not.  Nvidia also makes capture cards I believe.

I\'m a lot of help I know ;)
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« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2005, 01:28:32 PM »
Thanks, dawg!
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« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2005, 05:33:41 PM »
This will capture duirectly to mpeg-2 (the codec DVD\'s use) and is based on one of the best hardware mpeg-2 chipsets around.

This card is less than half the price and has a great chipset for analog video but it\'s mpeg-2 capturing won\'t be as good.  You can capture in another format and convert mpeg-2 later in software but that requires time, HD space, and a decent CPU.

I recommend the first.
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« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2005, 09:44:52 PM »
Thanks THX. Informative.
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« Reply #11 on: December 23, 2005, 04:31:55 AM »
Haupauge is a good company that has been around a long long time.
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« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2006, 02:22:22 AM »
kind of late in this thread but i would prefer miniDV 25 Mbps then encode it into MPEG-2 when finalized it to DVD.
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« Reply #13 on: January 03, 2006, 12:57:17 PM »
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815100120

Settled on that. Works alright for the price.
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