Any cheap vid capt cards?

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 9:52 pm

Does anyone know of any cheaper video capture cards?
not so cheap to give me a really cheezy picture but i need to save money and dont need top of the line vid capture

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:05 pm

actually i have no idea weather this is good or not, seems pretty good to me n i think its free shipping
...anyone know if this is a reasonable model and reasonable price?
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?s ... 31001&sp=1

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:23 pm

I have a pinnicale studio AV/DV. Pretty good for a 100 dollars.

Seijin_Dinger · Post by **Seijin_Dinger** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:22 pm

just remember you get what you pay for

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 1:24 pm

. umm . you've sorta "hit" a subject that is driving me insane here, for I am
also looking for a better Capture Card that the ATI line of products.
Todays standands are APG types that capture MPEG-2 video's at 720 X 480
picture resolution, but I want a higher "Capture Setting for Picture Size."
. http://www.videoguys.com/convertx.html is a perfect example of where things
are heading - in theory, the "box" does it all for you - but not in this design!
. When someone can capture Video at 2600 X 1800 I'll be impressed!
until then, remember that Capture Cards are currently not great display cards.

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 4:13 pm

i think this one would be ok bor the situation im in
after all, even with lower resolution, im gunna fill up 240 gb pretty fast =)

post-it · Post by **post-it** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:48 pm

ATI products ALL-IN-WONDER line started with 8 and 16 meg versions;
however, the built-in Codec for capturing "AVI"s was flawed!

If you are going to go cheap-cheep, then possibly "Radion 7200" might
work best - at least it does MPEG-2 and has the newer Codec.

btw, the TV Tuner ones are not any different than the Capture Cards only.

oldwrench · Post by **oldwrench** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 9:04 pm

Try checking this page, there are several listed. The plextor will capture directly to divx or mpeg4.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... CatId=1423

NeoQuixotic · Post by **NeoQuixotic** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:13 pm

You might want to take a look at ATI's TV Wonder series. They are PCI capture cards/tuners. I bought a TV Wonder VE for under $40 2 years ago and the TV Wonder Pros are less than $70 I believe. My TV Wonder VE has worked fine for me, but I bet it isn't the best. Sometimes installing drivers is a pain and some peoples computers won't accept it at all. My advice is the ATI TV Wonder series is a good cheap alternative, but you have to be lucky for it work in your system and make sure you install the right drivers. Since I haven't used any other capture cards I can't really fully recommend it.

So try the ATI is you feel lucky or go with Pinnacle. I tried a Pinnacle Studio AV over a year ago, but I had driver problems with Windows XP. I would suppose the driver issues are resolved and Castor Troy liked Pinnacle from the sound of it. Kind of a long winded recommendation eh? Right now, I say Pinnacle is your best bet for a good quality card at a decent price.

Dave_911 · Post by **Dave_911** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 2:40 pm

so many choices...so little money

well i think ill look at those ati ones that u said u got for $40, cuz if it dosent work ill nag them untill they give a refund
$40 2 years ago, i would pay that but also maybe the price came down over 2 years
hopefully itll work on my dell with xP
[dude! i got a dell]