Capture Hardware
 

Does anyone have any experience with capturing hardware? By Capture Hardware I mean something like this Dazzle product...

http://www.dazzle.com/products/dvc150.html

I want something like this to capture my analog High 8 movies to burn them onto DVD. My video camera is analog, so I need to be able to convert the movies to digital. I really want something separate like this to do the 'leg work' for my pc.

I am totally new to this stuff and would appreciate any input.

We used to sell these a lot when I worked at Best Buy. We never got em back so I assume they worked.

I think anything better on the consumer level will have you buying a new video card.

i've used the wintv pvr 250 (hauppage is the company name i think). it's pretty slick in that the hardware encodes straight to mpeg2, so you don't need to worry about using up time encoding.

ATI All in Wonder video graphic card has all the feature you ever need including a tv tuner. plus it can play all of today's most demanding video games

Sky:
I have had other people reccommend the all in wonder card to me also. Does the card compress the files as you capture them? I'm sorry if my questions dont make sense, I am totally new to all this stuff. I have a friend who captures footage from his digital camcorder. He said when he first captures it, he has a huge file on his machine, then he has to compress is it to mpeg-2 and it takes several hours.

I guess my question is, when you capture a movie from an analog signal, does it compress it while capturing it?