Which Capture card?
 

Hi all,

I'm thinking of getting a capture card for my PC and would like to know what people regard as the best option.

I don't want to spend too much on it and have shortlisted either the Pinnacle PC/TV Stereo PAL Card or the Hauppauge WinTV-GO Analogue TV tuner.

Which is the better of the two? Can both be used with the free software that can be downloaded, like Virtual VCR and VirtualDub.

Thanks in advance. :)

Hi Mr.Mickster,

if you don't wont spend that much money on an analogue card you have to choose a card where the compression will be done using the machines CPU while capturing.

I would recommend in that cas a little pinnacle PCtv as its seems that it gives good outputs even it uses a bt878 chip. Seems it gots some of that needed antialiasing routines/filters on it. But to NOT choose the TCtvRave as it only comes with a mono-tuner!

Watch here:

http://www.tv-cards.com/messageboard/ :arrow: the board

http://www.tv-cards.com/pctv.php :arrow: the review

http://www.aussievideosearch.com/car.../pctv-rf01.jpg :arrow: a sample of the PCtv series

I think the Pinnacle card I've seen is indeed the Rave :( I'll have to have a serious think on this.

That site looks cool :)

The image looks superb :D

Thanks Inc.