tjdavis1138
Senior member
I'm getting ready to upgrade again and have developed an interest in video editing and capture. I'd like to record some tv shows and burn them to cdr, but more importantly I have alot of old laserdiscs that may never make it to dvd and would like to capture these so I can play them back on my dvd player.
I just bought an ATI TV Wonder and am still trying to figure it out. My current setup consists of a P2-450, 192Mb, 9G WD HD, Riva TNT AGP, Ensoniq PCI, Abit BH6, 17" Mitsu monitor.
I have a 30g 75gxp, SB Live Value, ATA 100 controller, Plextor 12x burner, Epson USB scanner and Antec case laying around waiting for a new cpu, mb, video card, .
I'm sure my kid will fight for the tv wonder to stay in his computer so I'll be looking for another tv tuner/capture card.
Anyway, just wondering what you guys used and if one setup was better than another. I have all kinds of ideas floating around in my head -- Dual CPU? Pentium 3 or 4? How much memory? Should I stay with ATI or go with Happuage? I'll need a dvd drive too. I guess Toshiba or Pioneer here.
I tried an AMD setup a few months ago and had all kinds of problems with the via chipset. I was using an MSI pro2a and Thunderbird 1.1gz. I guess I wouldn't completely rule out another amd setup, but I'm a little gun shy at this point.
Thanks for any suggestions!!
Tom
I just bought an ATI TV Wonder and am still trying to figure it out. My current setup consists of a P2-450, 192Mb, 9G WD HD, Riva TNT AGP, Ensoniq PCI, Abit BH6, 17" Mitsu monitor.
I have a 30g 75gxp, SB Live Value, ATA 100 controller, Plextor 12x burner, Epson USB scanner and Antec case laying around waiting for a new cpu, mb, video card, .
I'm sure my kid will fight for the tv wonder to stay in his computer so I'll be looking for another tv tuner/capture card.
Anyway, just wondering what you guys used and if one setup was better than another. I have all kinds of ideas floating around in my head -- Dual CPU? Pentium 3 or 4? How much memory? Should I stay with ATI or go with Happuage? I'll need a dvd drive too. I guess Toshiba or Pioneer here.
I tried an AMD setup a few months ago and had all kinds of problems with the via chipset. I was using an MSI pro2a and Thunderbird 1.1gz. I guess I wouldn't completely rule out another amd setup, but I'm a little gun shy at this point.
Thanks for any suggestions!!
Tom
