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besides I don't have AGP anymore on my i7 motherboard
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When it comes to video, upgrading computers these days is often a big mistake. A lot of folks (such as yourself) are learning this the hard way.
Adding a new system is fine, but replacing a known-good capture box is getting really hard to duplicate. The best capture cards were made around 2005, and were built around AGP and PCI slots, with drivers that are only workable on Windows 98/2000/XP.
Windows Vista and Windows 7 mostly just work with PVR cards intended for recording TV shows, as opposed to any kind of pro or even semi-pro capture work. Did you trash the computer? Or is it in a closet now? I'd dust it back off, if available, and set it back up.
FYI: You don't need extra monitors, etc, to have more than one computer. Use a
KVM to use a single monitor, mouse, keyboard and speakers setup on multiple computers. More at
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/show...trol-1615.html -- it's easy to have a desk of 4 computers set up, with everything fitting on or under the desk.
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Could I expect better results using an ATI all in one with huffy?
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Better than the Matrox? No, it would be about the same, I'd think. However, some of these ATI All In Wonder (AIW) Radeon cards did outperform some older Matrox cards, back in the day. It's one reason the ATI cards were so popular, as it gave near-professional capturing results but at less than half the price (~$300-400 for ATI) of comparable $1K cards.
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I have to admit the convenience of the ADVC300 is quite nice especially the macrovision bypass.
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It's unreliable. The box does not always ignore or "bypass" the Macrovision/error signal. It will still fail on bad signals (including those with signals made artificially "bad" by copy protection schemes like Macrovision) a good portion of the time.
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Since I use a AG1980s TBC I don't need an external TBC with this setup for pesky macrovision tapes.
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This actually isn't true. The full-field TBC inside the Panasonic AG-1980P does not necessarily correct the signal errors created by copy protection schemes, such as Macrovision.
Even those "copyright defeater" boxes they sell online don't work well more than about half the time. Again, very unreliable.
The only way to completely remove garbage from a signal, including both natural video errors and the fake Macrovision-made errors, is to use a
full-frame external timebase corrector (TBC). This is explained fully at
http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/show...8710-1853.html
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I think I have been noticing the DV compression in VHS archiving where I need the best quality.
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It's about the same as DVD artifacts, though not quite as bad. There's also some color cooking for NTSC, although people disagree on this. I see it. It's noticeable on a Canopus box, but not so much on the Matrox cards.
