Video Capture Card Recommendations

[That Guy]

its TV quality... the quality of the image veries a lot though, size the resizing is all done in software on the cheap cards (TV is like 352x240 pixels, most monitors default at around 1024x768 pixels, which is 9.3 times as much detail, so instead of the natural analog blend tv tubes produce between their "pixels", on computers an algorithim of some sort is used to filling in all that missing information... how good that equation works depends on cpu power and the types of filters the drivers or hardware employ...)

That said, i watch stuff on my 19" CRT monitors more than i use my actual TV and the image is about the same (ass it should be)... works real well for recording and taking screen captures (warning though, when recording if you start playing games and eating up cpu, you're recording will have skips etc because the encoding is done more or less in software and not on the capture cards hardware).

HDTV cardss i heard had trouble with regulations or some kind of issue (sorry for being vague) that made them not the best idea 7 months ago... i'd have to look into what that was though.