Hi, I'm looking to buy a new tv card with good capture quality. Is the Terratec Cinergy 600 TV a good option? I know from the archives, that the card works, but couldn't figure out wether it does what I want. I want to use the card among other things to capture VHS video data to cdrom. It schould also capture from TV. Possible resolution should at least be DVD 720x576 or better PAL 786x576 at 25 fps. Terratec claims that it can record in DVD resolution but says nothing about fps-rate. Here: <http://ciao.de/TerraTec_Cinergy_600_TV_Radio__Test_2496851> someone is rantig about poor quality but I don't know wether the problems are caused by the Windows driver or hardware. For now I want to record 3 clips from vhs, each one below 5 minutes, and convert them to DVD / DivX. The quality should be good. Would that be possible with the following configuration? AMD Duron 700 MHz 775 MB RAM hdparm says buffered disk reads are 12.19 MB/sec S3Virge graphics card with 4MB 2 GB of free harddisk space. I want to upgrade the harddisk soon and eventually want to upgrade cpu and graphics too, but would like to do that later or at least not all at once. For now I would be fine with recording the 5 minute clips in some raw format and converting them later (even if it takes a day or two). But once I've got a faster CPU it would be nice to save right away in mpeg format. Would the Terratec Cinergy 600 TV be a good choice for me? Are there other alternatives available below 100 EUR? Would even a cheap card around 50 EUR work? Cards should have stereo FM Radio and be able to record at least DVD resolution. Thanks for your help, Berny -- bernhard.marx@xxxxxxx
