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Claus, Thought I would add my 2 cents in. I have had both systems. Started with the PAR card and now have upgraded my VM to the VM with the DPR. The Par card will only work with a very few IDE hard disks and you can only use 2 of them total. The DPR will work with SCSI and will be able to daisy chain up to 7 HD's of bigger sizes. The output is no contest. Par output is about 10 to 1 compression best and looks like SVHS quality. DPR is 3 to 1 and looks far superior. Par will capture directly to its hard disk without creating image files first. DPR is a slower process and will have to have image files to convert to be able to play out real time. Par has a much better system for this. DPR works flawlessly with the VM Studio as a analog-non linear option. Which includes audio files. PAR is only video capture animation playback, no audio. IF you want to work with other non-linear editing packages like Adobe Premier. Both work the same except PAR will interface nicely with Razer Pro. I never used this one but heard by reviews it is ok, not great. Maybe great with the Par but by itself, Premier and Video Action Pro are better, so saids the reviews. AFter having both, I would rather have the DPR (even though it costs more it is one of those things you get what you pay for). The new PVR card from DPS is suppose to be better quality, works with Razer PRo and supposely with Adobe PRemier, and sound files, but you better have a computer with two open PCI slots (kinda rare these days) with no fan blockage of the slots. All in all, DPR for me is a much better way to go. RAndy Creative Video PRoductions