All in Wonder 9700 or DV500 + tuner

[jkresh]

My Dad is a regular guest on CNBC and I have been recording his appearances and building DVD's based on them. Recently my Hauppauge based tuner has begun misbehaving and I am ready to replace it. I realize that their is a significant difference in features between the all in wonder and the dv500 (much better editor), however since most of what I am recording is off a TV signal and I would like to avoid running it through a cable box or vcr first, the dv500 would require a separate tuner and I don?t know if it would really give me any benefits. I have a p4 2.26 @ 2.53 with a Western digital 120JB and 512 ddr 400, so my machine is reasonable fast and real-time editing is not extremely important. Good quality input and mpeg2 output is. Since this is a TV stream, and some stuff off of vhs tapes, I am wondering if the dv500 would be overkill, and since it would require the other tuner or some other input source (to convert coaxial to svideo) would it even have better output? I will probably be buying within the next week and would appreciate any advice, thanks.

 

[jkresh]

help!

 

[SpeedTester]

I always feel its better to get seperate cards. In the future your capture/tv
card might still be a great card but you video card might need upgrading.
In the long run you might save some extra cash. One reason to get the
all in wonder card (besides being a great card) is to free up an PCI slot.
Either way you really cant go wrong.

 

[jkresh]

Thanks but that still leaves the question is the capture quality of the all in wonder good enough considering I will be distributing DVD's made from it? If it is, then this is easy, if not I have to look at a prosumer capture card. It would be nice if there was a prosumer tuner/capture card, then I would probably just buy that and be done with it. Though I admit the 9700 will be a nice upgrade anyway (gforce 3 regular).