need TV/Video Capture Card recommendation

Post by **shiv4** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:47 am

I just bought a Hauppauge WinTV HVR 1100, but I don't like it.
The "DVD-Quality" isn't DVD-ish at all, rather worse than VHS Tape quality, and if I burn the mpegs to disc and play them in the standalone player the motion is all chunky and "distorted".

Are there any cards which obtain at least TV/VHS-Hi quality without blurring and jpeg'ing the pictures?

TIA

Post by **shiv4** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 2:54 pm

he, what se fick? no1?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:06 pm

PM Amidy or Giraffe Hunter. GH doesn't come in here much.

Post by **shiv4** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 3:43 pm

ph ... it's no big drama thx. I just thought some more ppl here would use capture cards and might have a rec.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 8:03 pm

i have the ATI theater 550 pro, and it comes out with Great quality ( as long as there is a good input that is

)

i have burned numerious DVD's from VHS's and they have turned out great.

But then again, these things are a person to person kinda thing

Post by **shiv4** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:34 am

oh, didn't know that, sry

but ey, great I'll check that out

muchas ...

er, one thing: the ATI drivers for this card, will they like my nvidia forcewares?

Post by **SOAPboy** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:41 am

shiv4 wrote:oh, didn't know that, sry

but ey, great I'll check that out

muchas ...

er, one thing: the ATI drivers for this card, will they like my nvidia forcewares?

I didnt have to many issues. Should be ok.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 3:43 am

there wont be a problem, my media center is running a nvidia Vid card with the ATI tuner.

Post by **shiv4** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 4:43 am

oki, thx

Post by **Foo** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:29 am

shiv4 wrote:ph ... it's no big drama thx. I just thought some more ppl here would use capture cards and might have a rec.

Tricky because you buy one and stick with it, rather than other components where you upgrade from time to time.

I've got an external (USB2) Terratec Cinergy XS Hybrid stick and it's great. The unit gets warm and the bundled aerial is useless, but the remote control is handy and being portable betweet PCs/laptop is a bonus too.

Post by **shiv4** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:27 am

So newer USB 2 devices work also flawless on dvd resolution? Hm ... that might be an option too then. I wasn't so sure, because I already used an external USB box before the HVR 1100, but the higher the resolution, the more it caused short hangs and freezes. That's why I thought I'd be better off with a bus card.
However I'll have a look on both of them in the stores, thx guys

BTW, the aerial/receiver part of the HVR doesn't work here too, even though we have a good digiTV-reception in da house ... pfft, I hope they take it back