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Hi David, I too have been looking at low end DTV products for some time, and I too have come to a tossup between FAST and Miro. I was demoed the FAST product by the distrubuter here in Australia and the demo dod not go well. Also the image quality was not what I expected. About a month ago I went to the distrubutor here for Miro and had a good play of their system. On the whole the output quality of the miro was far better. (Also the demo ran smooth as silk, which was pretty convincing since it was my video footage we were playing with.). One notecable 'funny' was that the scene we digitised and re-recorded (skiier skiing), although the main action looked OK, the background (trees and bushes) seemed to strobe as they panned past. New Media (Nov I think) has a test of about a dozen capture cards and both FAST and Miro rate the best. Since then a frien of mine purchased the FAST board and I have used it to frame grab, but again I was not real happy with the result. VGA overlay …. Fast YES Miro NO … YC input …….. Fast NO Miro Yes TBC Fast Yes Miro No … I metnion this cause with the TBC off it would not sync to my camera at all (Cannon UC10). I have arranged a second trial of the Miro and this time I will use my own camera as the source. I am really swayed to the Miro product. (from the FAST demos I've seen, the fast works best with small windows wheras the Miro has little or no problem with full screen). Regards, Wit C.