Help me buy Video Capture Card

[lambchops511]

Hi, im looking to buy a video capture card with HDMI or DVI in

Any suggestions? I cant seem to find any on ATI's website .

 

[lambchops511]

and it minimum . it must support 1920x1080 @ 60hz .

 

[keeleysam]

Are you willing to commit at least $10,000 to this project?

What are you trying to accomplish?

 

[lambchops511]

example is to record from a dvd player through HDMI

10K seems a bit too excessive . maybe around 500 if necessary

 

[Peter]

1920x1200 24-bit color depth at 60 Hz produces a datastream of more than 400 MB/s. No ordinary PC, not even a workstation-ish machine, will be able to do /anything/ with that kind of influx.

 

[Peter]

Recording from DVD is a wee bit pointless, given that you could just read the source files from the DVD directly, no?

 

[lambchops511]

the source might not be just DVD

and yes this is a special application .

what if i said cost was no concern . is tehre a card that can do that?

 

[Peter]

As I have already said, there isn't even a PC that can handle that amount of data, despite (or explaining) the lack of such cards.

 

[lambchops511]

why cant it?

im building one thats gonna output @ 120hz . im just asking to input 60hz

 

[keeleysam]

1080p is going to be 400MB/second JUST for the video.

PCI is 133MB/sec just for the whole bus, so you can't use that.
PCI-E x1 is 250MB/sec, can't be used.

It'd have to be at least a PCI-E x4 card, and nobody is going to make such a thing for a consumer market. CPUs can't handle that, etc.

Have the computer read it natively.

By the way, your grammar (or lack thereof) shows you to be unprofessional. Please elaborate on what you want to do with this.

 

[Steve]

Are you just trying to record HDTV? Will this be through cable or over the air?

 

[lambchops511]

over HDMI .

 

[Steve]

I meant before it gets to the point of being output over HDMI. Are you trying to record HDTV from an antenna or from your cable service?

 

[lambchops511]

neither . its sorta for a lab....

it would most likely record from something like hd dvd player or maybe even from a pc with dvi out

 

[lambchops511]

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