For the best quality get a player with SDI digital out, then all what you need is to transfer to PC using a SDI PCIe card (around $10), The capture is done inside the player, you will be just transferring the SDI data to computer, Whatever capture card you'll buy is not going to be even close to the ADC's built in those pro players.
For instance the J3-SDI from Sony have digital SDI output and can playback all 5 SD digital/analog Betacam formats in both large and small cassettes and can be had for less than $100 used and it's the size of a consumer VCR.
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