Recent content by Meshugana

Thanks for your replies. I am going to go check out one of the new iMacs, but with some caution. The best one comes with 800MHz G4, 60gb HDD, Superdrive, and 256 RAM (I would upgrade). This seems to have much more power than the old ones and comparable to a regular Mac. Any more thoughts are...

I place this post knowing that I may get flamed as a heretic. I have been looking into building a new box to use for video capture, editing DV from my camcorder for family use, surfing, some gaming but I do not need intense 3D. Ideally, I want stability, simplicity, and speed. Waiting for ever...

After considering the advice on this boardand THG, I have decided to go with a stand alone capture card. I want to use the card to capture home movies from my Sony DV Camcorder and burn them to CD/DVD. I want something that will allow me to use MPEG2 and hopefully MPEG4. Of course I want great...

Munki, You are right. Firewire seems to be a "must have." This is what drew me to the 8500DV in the first place. Do any of the Geforce cards come with firewire? I have not seen any, but would certainly be interested. The 8500DV has a TV tuner which I will probably not use, so whether the Geforce...

Zim, Thank you for the reply. I have a follow-up question however. According to ATI, the 8500DV captures at 30fps while some of the separate cards capture at 60fps. Would the higher fps yield higher quality? I hope to oneday burn home videos (kids, family, etc) to DVD when prices for DVD...

I am planning on building a new computer as I am still using my old Celeron 300A and BH6. One thing I would like to be able to do is edit video from my mini-DV camcorder and burn to video CD. Is it better to go with the Radeon 8500DV or with GeForce3 and separate capture card? I admit I am a...